The distribution could be better i guess. Oh well ;)

no shit..

1. 6,500
2. 3,500
3. 2,250
4. 1,000
5. 750
6. 500
7. 250
8. 250

Hopefully they'll make up for the crap cash distribution with the hardware prizes. Ebay ftw ;p

Yeah, but some of the prizes are high-quality garbage from razer.

3rd place 1k lol

3rd place at KODE5 worse than 3rd place at DH and LANWAR.

lol.

qualifer should be those prices and finals should be 100k :D

for third place o/c

i was bout to say, dont theses people ask anyone b4 they decide what to do, like 1k lol, but arnt THESES THE PEOPLE?

some revolution

WOWZOR, THE REVOLUTION HAS ARRIVED. wait... less TOTAL prize money than a mcdonalds one star employees wages.

3rd place = a big mack and a whack from fat.

Well, I guess it's not so easy to get into the business. Wait for the second season, CPL wasn't spending millions from the start neither.

yes they where

Where??!@# WHERE??!@#!?#?!@#!#




:/

The "Revolutionary Council" has failed.

80,000 plus hardware is not nothing and revolutions can only fail when they're given up. Not after they just started.

a fatality sound card for everyone playing!!!!

will they all be handed by fatal1ty himself.
That would be soooooo awesome. ZOMG!!!

Lmao, sorry, but this made me laugh

Whats wrong with u guys ? 10k € is much more money then most of the people here earn in a year.

in third world countries

students?

Lazy bums?

yes

LoL,

This forum is based in the UK, not the third world - minimum wage here would be 1.5 x that and the average wage in the Uk is 3 x that.

These 'pro gamers' must be awful hard up to chase a 1K third prize, I would cross town for that never mind get on a plane.

noodles for gamers

Food For Gamers: Noodles -> http://www.team-dignitas.org/news.php?newsid=1641 l0l

tom yum soup!

yum yum soup ftw !

yay, kylling :)

i hope the qualifer next week will be fun :)

while i do think that everything kode5 has done so far is still a bit shady, with barely any qualifiers announced at all, and stupid prize distribution among other things, it's still another tournament thats happening with money to be given away as opposed to none at all

so true

less complain more playin!

;^)

top 3 = crap!

*carp

top 3 payout = freshwater fish ?

i don't get it

you wouldnt geez...

freshwater fish will be the only ones attending. duh

mullets ftw!

when is kode5?

prize for 1st place only imo
all or nothing 4tw

yeh i'm really looking forward to meeting you guys :D

edit: that was a reply to post #14 by draven :0

You should be happy that you get anything at all playing this dead game with a joke of a community, go KODE5!

yeah I agree, I mean CS 1.6 is so dead :)

Not ESWC standard but still ok.

good stuff, altho i agree abt the distribution, having a small group of players reaping all the rewards is not the way forward, what i mean by that is that the players that placed well in the other tourneys will place well here too, and that just means that only a small group of players will be able to live off the gaming, and the rest can busk outside the event centers. still early days however, by 2010, gamers from all the big disciplines will hopefully be making a healthy living

Pretty insulting prize money ^^

silly bastard!

stop trolling this site.

you were suppost to say:

"Pretty insulting post ^^"

how are people expected to keep travelling to the stops for that prize money, I am aware of all the arguments on how the games should be played for fun and not just money, but with travelling involved and everything costing that much there has to be something that keeps people interested to attend every event?

edit: Also I agree on the prize distribution, I don't believe things will improve if only the top 3-4 keeps getting paid

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Organisers must realise that hardware is worth less than half its retail value, since that's all we can sell it for, and nobody ever uses what they win. I don't particularly like having to turn salesman to claim my prize.

yeah, cash prizes only plz

I believe it's up to sponsors ;)

I know, but it shouldn't be. E-sports shouldn't be dictated to by its advertisers.

well kode5 has relatively small companies supporting them. I believe they just can't afford to sponsor 1 million dollar world tour;)

I understand that, and of course any prize money is good for e-sports, but for all the noise they're making about "over $90,000 of top-end gaming hardware," it's not really raising the prize purse much.

you said yourself that hardware is worth less than half of the value, but even a third is still 30k. and 110000 is noticibly more than 80000

Haha you clearly have no idea what you are talking about, Hon Hai (the owned of the brand Foxconn) is way waay waaay bigger than Intel will ever be.

hmm clearly i dont :P
too bad that kode5 aint gettin more bucks then!

anyways kode5 is sponsored by foxconn not hon hai, even if hon hai owns foxconn. They have their own finances and sponsoring budgets, so I believe in this case intel > foxconn.

u egd

wtf is egd??!?!? i must know the secret promode language ! ! ! ! ! !

something like 'owned' i think

You sir, are right

hey fat, why don't you just register an account here

Wtf, pussies crying about prize money they'll never be able to win.. Where is this joke of a scene going to?

I'll plus you for this comment because it was good. But after that I expect you to go back to bed and get a good rest so you can tolerate more pussies crying about prize money they will never be able to win. :D

Hehe, actually I work in a graveyard shift so I come home around 6am :)

is still cant get the idea out of my head that that kode5 is somehow related to the soviet union..."join the revolution" + red color + star

:D

SHOW ME THE MONEY!

What money ?