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2007 was a huge year for Counter Strike Source. GotFrag has compiled our annual list of the big money winners for this past year in CS:S and the Chicago Chimera are laughing all the way to the bank.  This list attempts to cover the 2007 prize winnings and money earned for the major leagues and LAN events for CS:Source. This list is an approximation compiled from various sources and is only an estimation based on published public records of the events and league payouts. It is not an all encompassing list but should closely indicate the least amount of money each team made this year. Criteria for this list were that each event or league must have at least a $2,500 first place payout and should include a majority of established professional teams. Update: The updated totals DO NOT show winnings for any other game but CS:Source. The totals for CGS teams are the calculated winnings for the CS:Source teams after the prize money has been divided for all games. Several more events have been added. CS:Source Team Prize Winnings for 2007  Chicago Chimera - $287,500 ($437,500*) Carolina Core - $87,500 ($237,500*) L.A. Complexity - $50,000 ($200,000*) Fnatic - $45,371 Birmingham Salvo - $45,000 ($185,000*) Berlin Allianz - $35,000 ($185,000*) London Mint - $20,797 ($170,797*) Turmoil/Devastation - $17,500 Mexico City Furia - $15,000 ($165,000*) Stockholm Magnetik - $15,000 ($165,000*) Singapore Sword - $15,000 ($165,000*) n!faculty - $12,661 Pandemic/verGe - $11,500 Sydney Underground - $11,044 ($161,044*) ALTERNATE aTTaX - $9,808 Seoul Jihhwa - $7,500 ($157,500*) Rio Sinistro - $7,500 ($157,500*) Wuhan Dragon - $7,500 ($157,500*) Team XFX - $7,500 Zboard - $6979 Logitech.fi - $6880 mTw - $6,382 Gravitas/zombler - $6,000 Hyper! - $5,750 Carnage - $5,500 Creativ - $5,000 Reason Gaming - $4697 3D.NY - $4,000 ($154,000*) Awakening - $4000 Rosklide eSport - $3860 egamespoint - $3,586 Advantage - $3554 Sequential Gaming - $3544 Volt Gaming - $3467 San Francisco Optx - $3,000 ($153,000*) MeetYourMakers - $2859 Guardians - $2,750 WTMSD - $2000 eGe - $1500 Dallas Venom - $1,500 ($151,500*) Speed-Link - $1,489 H2k - $1360 Hoorai - $1340 Team Fiend - $1329 eX! - $1,250 nTENSE - $1,250 BattleGear - $1,250 Copenhagen eSport - $953 Real Life Rejects - $347 Flatline - $441 everFrost - $441 Insignia Cadre - $173*includes CGS salaries Breakdown by events can be found on the next page. Page:
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User Comments
- 5 other CGS members - Salary = Prize money awards, that's better! :)
Seems like this article is designed to exaggerate the actual scope of the CS:S tournament circuit by including CGS salaries. Based on what org's like NiP and SK used to pay their players, you could have easily made the 1.6 figures much higher than they were using the same formula, but chose not to. You also neglected to point out that a significant percent of all of the CGS winnings go to the GM's; why omit that?
Why?
Also, #41 is absolutely right. A tournament money list is supposed to be a tournemnt money list; not an overall calcuation of how much each player made based on salaries, endorsements, travel reimbursements, and etc.
I am very disappointed in Gotfrag for releasing this article in its current form; I think it falls far below Gotfrag's usually high journalistic standards :/
if you include salaries for cgs, why not do it for other games ?
according to the CSS scheme, Fatal1ty won $4.5 M this year, but played in 2 tournaments.
fatal1ty earning :
products: $4M
Tourney: $5k
CGS presentation: 50k
doesn't make sense,
top quake or cs 1.6 players also get salaries from sponsors, organizations, etc.
it's very important, because this is the main reason why top European teams didn't go to CGS. they were already winning more of equal to $30k in terms of salaries from their organizations.
the difference is that this time with CGS, we know what was the amount, but its not because you don't know the other ones that they don't exist.
i think you should have done it the cs 1.6 way.
beside of counting the teams, regroup all pro tournaments with their prizes and tag teams to those prizes.
Good writeup, I enjoyed it.
Seems like this article is designed to exaggerate the actual scope of the CS:S tournament circuit by including CGS salaries. Based on what org's like NiP and SK used to pay their players, you could have easily made the 1.6 figures much higher than they were using the same formula, but chose not to. You also neglected to point out that a significant percent of all of the CGS winnings go to the GM's; why omit that?
Why?
Also, #41 is absolutely right. A tournament money list is supposed to be a tournemnt money list; not an overall calcuation of how much each player made based on salaries, endorsements, travel reimbursements, and etc.
I am very disappointed in Gotfrag for releasing this article in its current form; I think it falls far below Gotfrag's usually high journalistic standards :/
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