Fragadelphia 18 details announced

17-9-2024 22:44

The American LAN heads to Kansas City and will feature up to a $50,000 prize pool.

Party Astronauts and Copenhagen Wolves are already signed up for Fragadelphia 18

Fragadelphia has opened signups and announced details for Fragadelphia 18, which will play out at Hy-Vee Arena in Kansas City, Missouri from December 5-8.

The tournament will feature other games for the first time, including Rocket League and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, around the centerpiece Counter-Strike 2 event.

Party Astronauts, CPH Wolves, and Take Flyte are among the 14 teams already signed up, with registration costing $750 for teams with a coach and $630 for teams without a coach. Prices will increase closer to the deadline, with the current cost in place until September 30.

The tournament features a scaling prize pool based on attendance and tops out at $50,000 based on 55 teams taking part, up to a maximum of 64 teams. The organizer added that it would "consider expanding" if the limit is reached.

Fragadelphia 17 featured a $100,000 prize pool and had several European teams fly overseas to attend, including BIG Academy and Apeks. The former, captained by now-M80 in-game leader Elias "⁠s1n⁠" Stein, made it to the grand final before falling to EG White in the title decider.

EG.PA take down BIG Academy to win Fragadelphia 17

Lowered prize pool again? Why is na so rich and yet the tournament prizes are so cooked

2024-09-17 22:46

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My guess is whatever legislation there is against online gambling. EU has a plethora of tier 3 tournaments throwing down $25-$50k with gamba/sportsbook sponsors. Like 80% of EU teams/orgs have a gamba/sportsbook sponsor on their jerseys. NA is missing that sweet gamba funding...

2024-09-17 22:53

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Legislation against gambling in the United States is a primary block for many companies in advertising or sponsorship right now. Without clear and consistent national rules, applying and complying the appropriate marketing across states is incredibly challenging. I'd expect some consistency to be created in the next several years, but we're still a long way away.

2024-09-18 15:15

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Indeed. Something that confuses the fuck outta me is BC.GAMEs sponsorship of Cloud9. How in the fuck is Cloud9 (a US org) allowed to take money from and promote a website that isn't even allowed to operate in their own country?

2024-09-19 06:22

I don't think Fragadelphia is one of the "rich" organizations.

2024-09-17 22:54

don't know if they're allowed to run a $100k tournament with the new valve rules, or else they would have to extend invites based on the valve WR, aka ask every top team before they could invite NA locals

2024-09-17 23:03

Frag 18 is this December, so the new rules shouldn't be in effect yet.

2024-09-17 23:24

They are allowed to run a $100K as an unranked event (provided that Frag doesn't end up spending another $150K on tournaments within the year)

2024-09-18 01:44

They were partnered with Nerd Street Gamers and FTX for Frag 17. Fragadelphia itself is a grassroots organization with minimal funding.

2024-09-17 23:23

Because frag doesn’t have that much money and no gambling sponsors

2024-09-18 00:38

cool

still no comment after 2 min? guess it took 2 min to read

2024-09-17 22:47

Should be awesome, hopefully pa won two in a row!

2024-09-17 23:31

Uhmmm actually 🤓☝️ they werent technically pa

2024-09-18 07:12

If anyone needs an OG 1.6 nutcase im wanting to play at this tourny. Message me

2024-09-17 23:59

Frag essentially operates as a Non-Profit within North America - We are still looking for a Main Sponsor :)

2024-09-18 02:29

Party Astronauts signed ogwizard and Peeping.

2024-09-18 02:45

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2024-09-18 04:23

Exciting to see Fragadelphia expanding with Rocket League and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate this year! The $50,000 prize pool is impressive, and it’s great that they’re considering expanding if there’s enough interest. Can’t wait to see how the competition shapes up in Kansas City!

2024-09-19 09:05