Gfinity Summer Masters I with $80k

Originally, at the end of 2014, Gfinity announced their 2015 Masters tournaments with only $20,000 prizemmoney in each of the events, but that only lasted for a couple of weeks and it got boosted to $50,000.

Now, two tournaments in, only a few days after fnatic won Spring Masters 2, Gfinity once again upped the prizepool by $30,000 to $80,000 in total for the following event, Summer Masters 1.

That is scheduled to take place on the weekend of June 27-28, but this time only eight teams will get to be in the competition, starting off with a GSL system in a best-of-three group stage, as opposed to ten with a best-of-two round robin.

With this change in place, the prizemoney will be divided as follows:

1. $40,000
2. $20,000
3-4. $5,000
5-8. $2,500

The playoff format stays the same, semi-finals will be played in a best-of-three, while the final will once again feature a best-of-five, which is getting picked up by more and more organizers.

It also means that Gfinity Summer Masters I exceeded most events' prizepools, which are as of now announced for 2015, excluding ESL ESEA Pro League Finals ($500,000), CEVO Professional Season 7 Finals ($135,000+), ESL One Cologne ($250,000) and World Championships ($100,000).