DSRack to have just €7,000?

15-10-2010 00:56

DSRack, one of the biggest LAN events of the last quarter of 2010, could be forced to substantially lower its prize purse, HLTV.org has learned.

The Danish LAN event, which will take place from 18-24 October in Copenhagen, was initially announced as a €20,000 competition, hoping that it would attract some big guns from across the globe.

However, such figure was always dependent on the number of teams who signed up for the event, and the organisation has made no secret that it can make cuts to the prize purse in the event of meager interest from players.

As such, the prize purse could drop to as little as €7.000 if no more than 24 teams signed up for the competition, and as registration deadline was met on Wednesday, only 25 sides were registered, with only 10 of them having already completed payment procedures.

The DSRack chiefs have not yet announced the prizes they will be handing out, but by the looks of it, the tournament will most likely have a much lower prize purse than initially advertised.

FAIL

2010-10-15 00:57

12 replies

Why?

2010-10-15 07:36

11 replies

because organizations that organizate such events should have stable sponsor and a stable amount of money that shouldnt have to do something with the payment and signups of the teams

2010-10-15 08:34

10 replies

its the first cs lan for DSRack - we dont have sponsors - besides BenQ and zowie .

2010-10-15 10:30

8 replies

you should hire a good manager who knows how to work with sponsors and eventmanagement....

2010-10-15 10:55

7 replies

At least there paying the pricemoney. Rather then some other untold events that prefer to say nothing at all an let people wait endless ammount before handing out the pricemoney. I want to see an Event where they hand out the pricemoney cash in a Case.

2010-10-15 11:07

6 replies

are they ? he said its the first event dsrack does so how can u be sure they truely pay this amount of money.

2010-10-15 11:19

4 replies

He didn't say first event, but first event with cs... And DSRack does have an excellent manager, so there's probaly tons of related stuff you have no clue about that makes it impossible not to have huge prize money.

2010-10-15 11:36

3 replies

Everyone should support anyone who wants to stand up and make a good event out of nowhere. The lack of professionalism comes from teams that confirmed attendance and then pulled out. Not from DSRack. Still i hope its gonna be a great event.

2010-10-15 12:48

and do you have a clue?if they dont clarify people will only manage to speculate,so let him speculate free will

2010-10-15 16:07

1 reply

He's not speculating, but telling them what to do... there's a huge difference.

2010-10-15 16:10

this will happen @ dsrack ;)

2010-10-15 13:03

it was known from the beginning that prize may be cut, if there wont be enough teams

2010-10-15 20:22

fail

why is it a fail pita? I have been trying to get every team to pay in time, even those teams who confirmed their attendance - you know that i've msged you too. Its not a failure by DSRack, personally, i've done EVERYTHING possible to get all the best teams coming. Most of the teams who confirmed their attendance at first, stepped back. How can that be DSRack's fault for lacking professionalism at the teams managements? Just to start off we can take an organisation like Lions , MYM or Fx who at first confirmed their attendance on behalf of the team - but then saying they wont attend cause they wont pay (Lions) since they got free entrance to KGC. Its a joke by the organisations, we have had every good point of getting all the good teams, getting ALOT of teams, but in the end it wasnt enough so.

2010-10-15 10:49

haha it was a joke, just tried to be the first on this newspost

2010-10-15 11:59

ah :D!

2010-10-15 13:02

2010-10-15 12:49

omfg

2010-10-15 00:59

rofl

Why fail? With few teams, low cash prize. So not rly fail =/

2010-10-15 01:00

fail ?

2010-10-15 01:01

FAIL FAIL FAIL!!!!! .. fail (FAIL!)

2010-10-15 01:04

so was it a teams fail or a event fail, português？haha

2010-10-16 07:34

looooooool

2010-10-15 01:06

faaiilll!

2010-10-15 01:11

#5 says it all. Event staff already informed about this thus it is more a teams fail than a event fail.

2010-10-15 01:15

Agree, but not many seems to understand that. :(

2010-10-16 13:49

Relax guys, they can't help it. Will be an entertaining event anyways! =) can't wait to see .no there.

2010-10-15 01:16

How is it a fail, 3 days from the event only 10 out of 25 teams have payed whatever they are supposed to pay.. And the Dsrack organizers expected 60+ teams and got less then half of the number they expected. So yeah, the cut is not that big of a surprise, but at the end, it should be like 10k, just to be fair to other teams that are more professional, and take every single event seriously.

2010-10-15 01:18

Not really a fail but sad :/

2010-10-15 01:29

Why is it DSRacks fault that the teams isn't attending the event? They announced from the beginning how the prizes would look with 24, 32, 48 and 64 teams.

2010-10-15 01:47

€7,000? =))

2010-10-15 01:52

wish i could go

2010-10-15 01:53

It was supposed to be a great event so far. What happened? Why teams didn't show up? that's the big queestion here...

2010-10-15 01:56

About (guessing this as its 7k) 5,000 for first place is still a lot of money for only 10 confirmed teams.

2010-10-15 02:14

now WEM!!!!shining!~

2010-10-15 03:10

People that say FAIL don't have any reading skills.

2010-10-15 03:53

b4d! :(

2010-10-15 05:25

LOL. in that case maybe just make it a DANISH tournament i mean danish teams only will paticiapate in that kind of prize purse

2010-10-15 08:53

It is not a failure by DSRack - its a failure by ALOT of the organisations out there who at first CONFIRMED there attendance - not to mention names but there have been alot of teams (which u can see in the previous news) which stepped back. I hope ppl will be fast and sign up today so we can get a sick prizepott.

2010-10-15 09:33

Agreed.... so stupid to promise their attendance and then bail out. Thats why esport still is so unstable.

2010-10-15 11:03

these teams bring esport down in a whole, fuck these teams.

2010-10-15 16:23

keep it up :)

2010-10-15 12:52

lol

2010-10-15 10:18

OMG ! just 7.000$ nooobs

2010-10-15 12:27

nerd

2010-10-15 12:42

hahahahahah :DD

2010-10-15 12:38

So which teams are confirmed and have paid? What are the list now?

2010-10-15 13:09

lan.dsrack.com/events/competition/3/11

2010-10-15 15:06

Dunnow how you got to this, but check this link lan.dsrack.com/events/participants/3 more than 24 teams signed up and paid. And cadred puts up this cadred.org/News/Article/124019/ So maybe you could check it out?

2010-10-15 14:03

CS:S... HLTV.org is only about 1.6

2010-10-15 14:39

soz, my bad :D

2010-10-15 15:38

lol, there are teams with just one guy in it ? O_o

2010-10-15 19:05

lol noobs event

2010-10-15 14:23

€7,000 fail

2010-10-15 14:45

little bit sad :-d

2010-10-15 15:34

This is just sad. DSRack hosts a great event, but so few teams attend. :(

2010-10-15 15:58

Too bad that they did not get a full house. SLAP and DSRack should have coordinated their events, so one ticket to either event gave a 50% discount to the other - if possible. Would have granted a much larger audience given that KGC/SLAP is sold out as rumors appear. I really look forward to seeing DSRack pull of the biggest CSS event of the year though and probably SC2 as well. Way to go qdk and co.

2010-10-15 17:43