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Counter-Strike: Intel announces Core 2 Extreme Masters

By: Taha Benssiba - Published August 01, 2006 at 9:38 AM EDT - Writer Archive

Intel in association with ESL announces a $205,000 European tournament

With a total prize money of �160,000 (about $205,000) and a �110,000 (about $141,000) just for CS, Intel and ESL may have just announced the major European tournament for the 2007 season.

24 participants will play for the biggest prize purse ever in an all European tournament sponsored by Intel in an impressive move to promote their Core 2 Extreme processors. Never has an online tournament announced such an important cash purse and this move might make many European teams who have been boycotting online leagues re-evaluate their decision.
The Finals however will be played on LAN as well as a couple of "Intel Friday Night Games" which will be organized across Europe in Hamburg, Paris, Stockholm and London with �10,000 (about $13,000) in event bonuses.

More details can be found in the next page along with the official Statement on the ESL website.

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User Comments

:o decent

#pandemic

biggest prize purse eh? not to shabby

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WOW $$

buddy me

goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo... nip :P

ArchoN: " wait wait where are the heaton haters now? THAT BANDWAGON MOVED ON~ "

this is huge.. so many �

i love morons

Intel is great.

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ESL IS GOING TO DOMINATE THE ESPORTS WORLD

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huge for europe! n1 esl

well #2 $141,000 for an All-European only tournament who's pre-finals are gonna be played online, that's unheard of and that's pretty big.

Wow looks pretty good.

Watch out for creative on the iNEt..

with so much money I would toggle to win

Very good, but please drop the online part... **toggle**. Unless they use some sort of anti hack CEVO style.

The ESL has his own Anti-Cheat Tool called Aequitas

And these are these are the people who use to be behind CAL-Europe.... If only they could have taught CAL where the future of online gaming needed to be going..

http://www.qpadusa.com

CAL is nothing against ESL ;)

568.904 Users
229.141 Teams
2.352.930 Matches

for the amount of advertising Intel does, you'd think they'd be wiping the market.

Ironically, no matter how much advertising they do, I still <3 AMD

Mug N' Mouse - #team-mnm - www.mugnweb.com

jeez that is 1 huge cash prize

364859'th Gotfragger has got nothing on me ..!!

Well, I for one am excited

TF2

Holy crap, that's a lot of money and it's going be insane with the new Core 2 Extreme Processors!

Go Read a Book =)

not bad

I wouldn't care much about cheating, Aequitas is an extremely powerful tool (you'll have a hard time getting around that thing) and the online part will only get you to the top 8. After that, it's all LAN baby !