EM3 with $750.000, CS 1.6 and WoW

Electronic Sports League today announces its third edition of Extreme Masters. The third season will stretch across three continents during the season.

Extreme Masters must be counted as the eSports answer to Champinons League. The prestigious league will this season not only more than double their total prize purse, but also replace one game. Do not fear they would remove Counter-Strike 1.6, as it’s once again one of the two official games this season. As you might have guessed, Warcraft 3 gets removed due to it not having a big enough worldwide appeal. Replacing Warcraft 3 will be by World of Warcraft, ESL already had a few test events with the game, latest at DreamHack Winter 2007.

mousesports victorious at Extreme Masters II finals.

This season, Extreme Masters will consist of three continental leagues; Asia, America and Europe. The best teams and players from each continental league will advance to the global finals at CeBIT 2009 in Hannover, Germany. The season will kick off at Games Convention 2008 in Leipzig, Germany.

ESL states:

The third season of the Intel Extreme Masters unlocks a new level of eSports and entertainment. The Intel Extreme Masters Season III features events on three continents: Asia, America and Europe. The world's best eSport clans will be playing on highest performing Intel Extreme Processors on Alienware Systems from Dell's Gaming group competing for a prize money of 750,000USD. Counter-Strike 1.6 and World of Warcraft are the disciplines.

Last season we saw mousesports taking home the big check and the sparkling trophy. This season will without doubt once again be one of the most important tournaments for teams to win. We will be looking forward to season kickoff in August. HLTV.org will be your home for the entire Extreme Masters III season.
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Denmark Danny D3
OMFG Price
2008-06-19 17:01
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Romania hZs<3zonic
just wOw
2008-06-19 17:02
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Estonia rake
fuck man..750k o_0
2008-06-19 17:16
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Poland bkx
Omg, 750k $, nice price.
2008-06-19 17:21
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Hungary -ZENITH-
niiiceee
2008-06-19 17:22
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Sweden ZerG^
As huge as the ESL World is the amount off money should be able to reach this hight alot more often.
2008-06-19 17:31
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OMG In the active listing this topic appears just like "EM3 with $75.." And I thought $75 (left? xD)??!! Did EM just go bankrupt?? xDD Fortunately, it is not the case and teams, besides fame and glory, will have this prize money as incentive :D
2008-06-19 17:40
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Argentina slowAATTOONN
HAHAHHAHHA
2008-06-20 23:40
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Brazil 0k'21
what is the 1.6 prize?
2008-06-19 18:50
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Poland red.13
WoW is so awful to watch :/. Why do they support it? (I know - 9994854 billions of WoW nolifes) Really, if you can find one - not boring - matchup in WoW, give me a call :).
2008-06-19 18:59
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Estonia -Cell-
So true, competitive WoW is soooo boring to watch for spectators.
2008-06-19 19:11
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Latvia masterm1nd
w3 is much more fun to watch :X but money talks ;)
2008-06-19 22:24
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Belgium BrillanN^
LEEEERRROOOOOOY JENKINSSSSS !! thats one :p
2008-06-20 00:12
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Albania MKilla
pls explain better how win the CS champions if they win? O_o
2008-06-19 19:13
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Denmark TheMonk
wow... 750 000 $ thats like 3.75 mill danish Krone... A hell lot of money! Fuck Lotto!
2008-06-19 19:15
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Finland anssi
yeah fuck lotto =DDDD
2008-06-19 19:57
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ROFLLLLLLLL
2008-06-19 20:13
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Latvia cucumber
no news abaout cs 1.6 prize's?
2008-06-19 19:29
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Denmark Nix0n
Detailed prize distribution not announced yet.
2008-06-19 19:34
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Romania ShevA*
almost 1 million $ :D, nice job.
2008-06-19 19:53
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Netherlands leth
damn nice! !
2008-06-19 20:31
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South Africa HackeM123
CRAZY!
2008-06-19 21:19
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Poland chronol
how does a WoW matches looks?? 1vs1?? on what server or what??
2008-06-19 21:59
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United States simx
I am surprised they got this much support in order to promote Intel Extreme Processors on Alienware systems, because obviously we all need to go buy them in order to run games like CS and WoW. :D That was sarcasm for any slow learners.
2008-06-19 22:01
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Brazil 0k'21
eat it source :)
2008-06-19 23:29
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Venezuela Blad.
750.000$.... You can buy a house, a Ferrari, you can do whatever you want with that ammount of money... GL xD
2008-06-19 23:55
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Poland chronol
750k /5 or more....;]
2008-06-20 00:44
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Algeria cBxwOw~
wOw that's very big price...
2008-06-20 13:26
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Morocco sqske
as f0rest would say : wOw~
2008-06-22 04:01
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Belgium rawjawz
#31 LOL I'm glad to see 1.6 back HELL YA
2008-06-22 09:59
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Ukraine Spikerok
just cant wait! :) ps. i dont understand one thing.. why the hell WoW is in this list!
2008-06-22 16:40
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Sweden Skrov
Spikerok, 10.000.000 paying players of WOW makes Blizzard a very very wealthy company so $750.000 (or whatever they're paying to be in the tournament) is really peanuts. Or the Blizz company is maybe paying the best bribes what do I know?Anyhow surely they can pay more than any other company out there to promote their game that's why.
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Ukraine Spikerok
their is over 20,000,000+ users on steam. No one knows how many non-steam and lan users their are who play cs son. So if we balance it out we can say that a bigger proportion of people prefer cs then wow.
2008-11-10 21:11
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