ESL cut $130,000 for IEM5

16-7-2010 23:25

Electronic Sports League have announced the total prize purse of $400,000 for Intel Extreme Masters season 5, which is a cut of $130,000 compared to season 4.

The unveiling of information for IEM5 continues as the fourth board was unveiled today. On the board it is written "In total $400,000" which is assumed to be the total prize purse for the fifth season. ESL has on the previous boards announced that the fifth season will consist of 6 events, with Counter-Strike 1.6 and Quake Live revealed as Main Titles and an event in New York City (American Championship Finals).

Season five cheques to be small?

The $400,000 prize purse is in fact almost half of what the third season had, which was a total of $750,000 handed out in three games. The fourth season had a total prize purse of $530,000, which was a $220,000 cut compared to season three. This will most likely make people question whether there are financial problems going on within ESL as a whole, or only for IEM5.

ESL has also been criticized by teams for taking a very long time to pay out the prize money. Prize money from IEM4 European Championship Finals and World Finals is still due to be paid out, HLTV.org has learned.

omfg so much money !

2010-07-16 23:26

Sad :/

2010-07-16 23:27

omg

lol, to bad.

2010-07-16 23:28

too much went for ENC? lol too bad $350,000 compared to season 5. shouldnt be season 4?

2010-07-16 23:30

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Gotcha.

2010-07-16 23:33

ENC also had a cut this season compared to last.

2010-07-16 23:46

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it didnt.. there's bigger prizes, atleast in CS, idk how about other games

2010-07-16 23:48

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You should check again :) EDIT: Ye, you are right, this season had increase, I think last one then had cut.

2010-07-16 23:55

bad news for teams ;///

omg :(

ENC?

Different budgets, ASUS sponsor ENC, while Intel DELL/Alienware sponsor IEM.

2010-07-16 23:34

they removed WoW so that's not really unexpected

2010-07-16 23:31

Nix, focus on Arbalet Cup!!! :D

2010-07-16 23:32

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Uploading photos, might just use my time on other stuff while waiting :)

Sounds good.:) I got to ask u why did u stopped writing blogs while visting tournaments? :)

2010-07-16 23:36

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Oh dont get me wrong, I really want to, usually there is just not enough time.

2010-07-16 23:50

Pff, like you work something over there, lazy bitch. ;p

2010-07-16 23:57

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2010-07-17 02:42

OMG

new york city sounds cool

Lol thats not a small amount of money, thats a huge amount of money!

2010-07-16 23:37

4 mille, rätt ur fickan! Sorry for swedish, had to be said! ;)

2010-07-17 02:06

Yep :S

2010-07-17 16:12

sponsors? :/ bad news

2010-07-16 23:41

Sorry guys, was a bit off with the numbers on prize money, post is updated.

Picture with a stetson on and I presume we will forgive you LoL

2010-07-16 23:54

Nix0n - HLTV.org has learned - that was for me?:P

Not quite following you here...

Some time ago I posted that Mirra and You often use this phrase. I got this posted removed. Just.. nvmnd.

2010-07-16 23:59

Alrighty, assuming you dont like this phrase?

2010-07-17 00:02

Hah, @ almost every news? Not so much :P

2010-07-17 00:04

Maybe cause we actually have learned, and gotten the intel?! It's a quite common phrase.

2010-07-17 07:00

MORE MOOOOOONEY FOR THE UKRAAAAAAINIANS!!!!

2010-07-16 23:56

you must be joking =DDD

2010-07-17 03:21

wawii

Prize money from IEM4 European Championship Finals and World Finals is still due to be paid out, HLTV.org has learned. Mousesports, Na`Vi and fnatic are very angry. =/

2010-07-17 00:03

yeah, its been fucking months. Pay out Na`Vi's $50,000 already.

2010-07-17 00:06

Just a financial question. Sponsors give money for their names to be shown around, as an advertising campaign.. People pay tickets to go to these arenas, where sponsors put their products in hopes of buyers. Tickets I'm guessing goes to prizes... How much would E-sport companies make out of all this? If so much is spent on prizes, then I'm guessing the reason for sponsor problems and delay in paying prizes is because of lack of people going to arenas.. Which I'm guessing is the reason in lowering prizes?

2010-07-17 00:07

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I forgot my important question lol...Do they make money from sponsors or from tickets? Cause i think the sponsors pay the prize money in total.

2010-07-17 00:13

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There is an 'Edit' button to add further content to your message after it has been published.

2010-07-17 00:30

I know that Jonathan, I just no longer had the option for some reason. May have been a glitch.

2010-07-17 02:19

Did you log out or something? If so, that might be the reason.

2010-07-17 17:44

I dont think they get that much from tickets. Main income is from sponsors, and in some tournaments the fee you need to pay to enter the tournament. The problem is that many esports companys tend to waste more then they can,if you win 100000 you cant promise a prize of 180000 if you get what i mean. ESL aswell gets some money from memberships and TV. Still i think last IEM featured 3 games instead of two, 400000$ is a lot of money for 2 games man...

2010-07-17 00:37

True, TV would be a huge step and a huge money boost to E-sports. That's a hard step to take though.

2010-07-17 02:21

I dont mean TV as what you think i mean,i mean the ESL TV, but yeah, if esports would be transmited on tv, it would be a great boost ;)

2010-07-17 02:28

So much money :s

2010-07-17 00:53

esl always pay, but in the rules say thah prizemoney will come in 12 months

400000$ O_o?!

2010-07-17 01:14

Yeah they removed wow so should be more money to cs and ql then seasons before

2010-07-17 02:54

Bad!

2010-07-17 03:19

This is all about sponsors. If the sponsors feel they haven't made that much money with them then they can cut down on money anytime they want... but still there is a 5th season and this is a lot of money. Good job.

2010-07-17 04:51