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SK not attending CPL Winter
A few weeks ago the CPL announced the return to the Counter-Strike community with hosting a Counter-Strike 1.
By Dominic 'immo' Koller
Nov 7, 2007 17:38
A few weeks ago the CPL announced the return to the Counter-Strike community with hosting a Counter-Strike 1.
6 and Source tournament at the CPL Winter 2007. Everyone was looking forward to see another great CPL event but unfortunately, there are still very few registrations of the teams to attend and the CPL already scaled down their tournament from 64 teams to 32 teams and expanding the deadline for signup. Aditionally the G7 Teams today have announced not to atend this event. Read the full statement:
The G7 Teams today have decided not to attend CPL Winter 2007 in Dallas. The reason
for not competing at this event is based on the fact that the organising company behind it
is lacking the necessary efforts that are needed in paying out cash prizes from
tournaments they organize or by licensees dating back to 2003 until today.
Earlier in 2007 the G7 Teams opened up a process to help any team or player from the
community to receive due payments from tournaments and/or leagues. Numerous mails
came in and all of them could be solved with the organisers, except most of the ones
regarding the CPL.
To grow eSports worldwide, all parties including leagues and tournaments shall need to
work together. When it comes to payouts from those leagues and tournaments, certain
rules and timeframes have to be followed, meaning forms have to be filed and sent in
within a certain timeframe. On the other hand an organiser has the responsibility to help as
well, reminding teams and players but also correct mistakes in the process.
In this particular case, the G7 Teams have recognized a huge imbalance between the
parties. Whilst teams and players seem to try to do their best, the organiser fails to help
and therefore does not show the will to actually proceed with payouts.
Travelling to an event anywhere in the world has become a smaller to larger investment
from the teams and players perspective. Being treated like described above just does not
feel encouraging enough to compete in a tournament. The decision is not limited to a
specific game nor is it limited to this particular event. Until the imbalance and
misunderstandings have been cleared up 100%, no G7 Team will send any player to any
event of the organisation above or its licensees.
The G7 Teams today have decided not to attend CPL Winter 2007 in Dallas. The reason
for not competing at this event is based on the fact that the organising company behind it
is lacking the necessary efforts that are needed in paying out cash prizes from
tournaments they organize or by licensees dating back to 2003 until today.
Earlier in 2007 the G7 Teams opened up a process to help any team or player from the
community to receive due payments from tournaments and/or leagues. Numerous mails
came in and all of them could be solved with the organisers, except most of the ones
regarding the CPL.
To grow eSports worldwide, all parties including leagues and tournaments shall need to
work together. When it comes to payouts from those leagues and tournaments, certain
rules and timeframes have to be followed, meaning forms have to be filed and sent in
within a certain timeframe. On the other hand an organiser has the responsibility to help as
well, reminding teams and players but also correct mistakes in the process.
In this particular case, the G7 Teams have recognized a huge imbalance between the
parties. Whilst teams and players seem to try to do their best, the organiser fails to help
and therefore does not show the will to actually proceed with payouts.
Travelling to an event anywhere in the world has become a smaller to larger investment
from the teams and players perspective. Being treated like described above just does not
feel encouraging enough to compete in a tournament. The decision is not limited to a
specific game nor is it limited to this particular event. Until the imbalance and
misunderstandings have been cleared up 100%, no G7 Team will send any player to any
event of the organisation above or its licensees.
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a step into the right direction i guess
sad to hear so dissapointing facts
now the question is, can the CPL pay all the prizemoney? i mean from 2003 until now it must be a very high amount of money, isnt it? cant imagine how to get all this money.
Funny how this never broke the news properly before. Good move and this should be applied to all the tournaments who seem to disregard their responsibility in paying out what they promise.
This is something different offcourse, but with such large numbers at stake you can't expect organisations to pay out the next day unless the money papers are filled up to the point where just the destinationaccount has to be inserted and done.
I never expected CPL was like this.
What about you take in consideration that CGS pays these players a minimum of $30,000 a year to be part of their league. Atleast they take pride and appreciate their players properly, unlike some of these organisations who seem to be taking their fame for granted.
of CPL Event! =\
GG.
Ok thats a pro for the cgs but there are enough leagues which aprechiate there players.. and have a system which is not as bad as the cgs one... and other leagues dont forbid there players to attand in other major turnaments.. which is just a bad move... emagin the cgs will be dominating the esports scene do you wanna play a css match witch 10 rounds each side and than 1 round overtime ? and even if you win the match you can be kicked out of the turnament because of the other games ?? ..
its just sad..
NO CPL ^^ G7 TEAMS HAVE TO START A NEW PROGAMING TOURNAMENT :D might invite one team from Belgium? and please, not defusekids haha =D they went to ESWC like 3 teams and they really suck =)
this is major fraud if it is true and those companies (e.a. intel) do have legal rights that would hurt them more than a payout would
work together."
This just hurts the CS-scene even more. CPL won't be as popular and the teams get hurt by this as well... I bet that G7 and the organisations never asked the teams what they think about this.