The Championship Gaming Series has announced the size of the prize pot for the CGS World Championship. It will be $1,000,000 and half of it - yes, $500,000, will go to the winning team.
Although teams in the CGS are ten players strong, it’s $50,000 per person in the winning franchise. This prize pot dwarfs everything else we have seen in gaming so far for a single tournament. Including the standard CGS wages, the best players this year will have made $80,000.
Players outside the league can earn more than that (Warcraft 3 genius Jang “Spirit Moon” JaeHo earns an alleged $9,000 a month and picked up well over $100,000 in prizes) but the amount of effort they need to put into it is incomparable.
There will be twelve teams competing for the CGS World Championship - two North American franchises Chicago Chimera and Carolina Core, four Asian teams (Shanghai, Seoul, Dubai, Singapore), two UK teams (Birmingham, London), two European teams (Stockholm, Berlin) and two South American teams.
The teams for the UK, Europe and South America region are still to be given names and be manned. The qualifiers into those teams will take place on September 19-23 in Birmingham (for UK and Europe) and September 20-23 in Mexico City for South America. The draft for UK and Europe will have a prize pot of $75,000, most likely in reaction to the very poor turnout in signups so far.
The World Championship will take place in Los Angeles and will last three weeks. Rumor has it, the tournament will take place in December.
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too bad there arent more european gamers :P
Oh there’s tons of us out there, Rance ;P
A player from the winning world championsip team will make 30k (base salary) + 50k (winning world championship) + more for topping his respective region.
Not bad I guess, some players are milking the achievements and skill of their team mates though which is a shame.
It would be UTTERLY HILARIOUS if Carolina Core won the world title and Peekay got $80,000.
Exactly xD
Trust me there are lots of Europeans gamers!
Just check ESL and ClanBase and other EU communities…
Yes I know how many euro gamers are out there, thats why im flabbergasted there arent more players signing up for tournaments other than the ones they are accustomed to.
Resisting the growth of the sport is never good, and lack of participation in certain leagues definitely slows progression in the sport.
Maybe they’re skeptical that with only two spots available, those will go to the buddies of the GM’s. There were six spots for each game in America and not all of the best players and teams got on board.
Or maybe it is a question of marketing - the CGS did not have events in Europe, unlike in America.
You seriously have it in for these guys carmac dont you. You seem to bash them at every chance, pretty sad when they seem to be doing a lot of things right, you only talk about the shit stuff.
Its December for the world finals too, it even says it on their site, you not paying your sources well enough?