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The Electronic Sports World Cup announced tonight the official games that will be played at next years tournament. There will be six PC tournament held along with one Playstation 2 competition. It is no surprise to see both Counter-Strike 1.6 and Quake 4 being a part of the festivities. The Male Counter-Strike tournament will feature a prize purse of $160,000 and the Female tournament will have $40,000 up for grabs. Last year, the United States managed to sweep the CS tournaments with compLexity winning for the men, and Girls Got Game taking the title for the women. They will definately be looking forward to defending their title. Along side Counter-Strike, Quake 4 will be another large tournament as it is also the primary 1v1 game for next years CPL World Tour. It's prize purse is $40,000.

Other tournaments being held for the PC include Warcraft III, Pro Evolution Soccer 5 and Trackmania Nations ESWC, all of which will also feature $40,000 in total prize money. The lone PlayStation 2 tournament held will be for Gran Turismo 4, and once again it will feature $40,000 in prize money. The total prize for all games at the ESWC will be $400,000

The 2006 ESWC tournament will be held from June 27th to July 2nd in Paris, France. This means that the ESWC tournament will end three days before the CPL Summer event, which begins on July 5th. Despite the close proximity of both tournaments, the large amount of prize money for both should encourage teams that qualify for the ESWC to also attend the CPL. As always, you can be sure GotFrag will be on site in both Paris and Dallas to bring you the best coverage of both tournaments. Make sure to stick around, as next year will see some very intense competition.

ESWC 2006 Tournaments:

$160,000 - Counter Strike 1.6 Male (PC)
$40,000 - Counter Strike 1.6 Female (PC)
$40,000 - Quake 4 1v1 DM (PC)
$40,000 - Pro Evolution Soccer 5 (PC)
$40,000 - Trackmania Nations ESWC (PC)
$40,000 - Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne (PC)
$40,000 - Gran Turismo 4 (PS2)

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$120,000 - Counter Strike 1.6 Male (PC)

Nice :O GL to everybody that is attending.

:edit: 160k now :O

This comment was edited at 12/01/2005 4:58 PM

But the map big. much train and cant under train because men too high. - PantoN

Sounds great, going to be a great year for Counter-Strike.

"The directions say 'Cook and Chill'. And that's what I do, I cook, and then I chill!"

CPL Summer is $300,000 for CS and $200,000 for Quake 4. So in a two week span, $420,000 will be up for grabs for CS teams. And $240,000 for Q4 players. This is not including the other CPL World Tour stops.

THATS RIGHT I DONT SEE SOURCE ON THERE!!! GJ ESWC

NetFragz tM[st]

God CS is better than all games

Idlers and 4digits win scrims

evenly distributed except the male cs ;D

nice to see that 1.6 is 3x the payout for q4 and no source :) 1.6 is here to stay apparently

CPL 1.6--- $300k
ESWC 1.6-- $120k

CPL Q4- $200k
ESWC Q4-- $40K

quite the difference there

Money is money eterniTy, no need to compare.

#zeilSQUAD

#8 so ?

CounterStrike 1.6 � 160,000$
CounterStrike 1.6 Women � 40,000$
Quake 4 1v1 � 40,000$
Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne 1v1 � 40,000$
Gran Turismo � 40,000$
Pro Evolution Soccer 5 � 40,000$
Trackmania Nations ESWC � 40,000$

160k for www.team-aAa.com

http://www.team-aaa.com/news/comment.php?..

This comment was edited at 12/01/2005 12:59 AM

#8 and? be happy, we can see a lot of interesting 1.6 matches in the future.

#inco @ QuakeNet

#11 even better!

the prize money distribution

#elite-pimps #i56

looks to be a great event like usual.

#1UP

#8 and last summer it was like

$240k for eswc 1.6 and $60k for cpl summer 1.6

oh and gooo eswc for having games that people actually play unlike wcg :)

great month of cs then

CPL Summer is $90 000 isn't it...

f0rrest~you

Well the CPL and ESWC both have nVidia and Intel as major sponsors, yet ESWC's prize pools are significantly lower. That's all I'm pointing out. Maybe its different because Intel is the CPL's major sponsor while nVidia is ESWC's main sponsor.

I think a huge draw to CS is the women's division especially in terms of sponsorships.

$90,000 FIRST place #20, $300,000 overall

A $40,000 tournament for Gran Turismo 4? Wtf?

muhaaaaaa no source xD

I'm nobody, and nobody is perfect, so guess what? I'm perfect.

lmao they use Pro Evolution Soccer instead of FIFA and Gran Turismo 4 instead of PGR.

Comparing to WCG.

I thought it was $120000 for first place LOL im dumb, how much for 1st place in ESWC?

I hope the top teams will be able to attend both events !

#27 I think it's 40k first place

This comment was edited at 12/01/2005 1:53 AM

Nice how female league is 1/3 the pot of guys when they only account for 1/10th or lower of the competitive gamers.

Grand turismo WTF didnt even know this game was competitive. Discuss

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$120,000 - Counter Strike 1.6 Male (PC)
$40,000 - Counter Strike 1.6 Female (PC)
$40,000 - Quake 4 1v1 DM (PC)
$40,000 - Pro Evolution Soccer 5 (PC)
$40,000 - Trackmania Nations ESWC (PC)
$40,000 - Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne (PC)
$40,000 - Gran Turismo 4 (PS2)
$00,000 - Counter Strike Source Male (PC)

CZ should be up there though, its not a bad game :o

Trackmania, awesome.

All-around God :: SUPREME JESUS

YES CS 1.6 !!!!!!!!!!

#ricochet

Never heard of Trackmania, or Pro Evolution.

you never heard of pro evolution soccer .... wow do you really play videogames =) ?

to make it simple its the best football game ever created , a LOT better than fifa .

This comment was edited at 12/01/2005 2:59 AM

before some idiot tries to flame #37 for saying the best football game ever created , yes , soccer = football in most european countries if not all.

jESUIT: "and this sexy peice of man is Matt Dickens"

#38 shut up

its better to have a female tournament than a source tournament

the total prize purse for the CS 1.6 male tournament is 160 000 USD, not 120 000.

#21 CPL have 2 games, ESWC have 7 if ESWC only had Quake and CS i am sure it would be similar to CPLs.

� Michael Vettas | www.GotFrag.com | #gotfrag �

PES5!!! n1

#36 GoodGame, aAa, Bz, redCode, coolcore, Ocrana, DkH, SSV-Lehnitz, 5Giants... have PES Squad, not is strange game!

i dont understand how Trackmania Nations ESWC and Pro Evolution Soccer have the same prize money as q4 but ok

[:|

Yup wrong prize money for cs its $160,000 and the platform for Pro Evolution Soccer has not been chosen (PC or PS2).

shame that eswc cs will probably be overlooked, but hey, maybe the female tournament could be quite competitive :)

This comment was edited at 12/01/2005 5:58 AM

ESWC will definitely be dwarfed compared to the large amount of money put up by the CPL.

Good that its 1.6. Smart move by ESWC.

Shame quake 4 isn't TDM, Need more tdm comps damnit!! Quakecon pleaseeeeeee :0

www.london-mint.com - London Mint GM

Pro Evolution Soccer 5 IS the best football-game ever made.

Soccer as the name for football only exists in America. The real name is football which everyone outside of america uses. Why did the americans feel the need to steal the name of our sport?

PS. Yeah and I only play with Juventus. ;) DS.

This comment was edited at 12/01/2005 6:33 AM

hi my nem is toktoktutu chong, wnv are gooder then fantic , jungl he snip so gooder !!

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