Ligarena, the organisers of the ESWC have released a statement clarifying their stance on the dates for this years tournament. As you may have guessed by now, the CPL Summer Championship dates clash directly with those of the ESWC. Here is the release:
Paris, December 10, 2004
We wish to confirm that the ESWC 2005 Grand Final will be held as planned from 5 to 10 July, 2005, just as in previous years and as announced to several partners and media organisations worldwide.
We were very disappointed to hear CPL’s announcement concerning the dates of its own forthcoming summer event: the most expensive e-sports event in the world� for gamers.
This decision by Mr. Munoz sounds to us like an admission of weakness or at least as a deliberate attempt to divide players, teams, sponsors and the media.
We wish to express our deepest regret to all involved for this situation, which appears to be yet another attempt to hijack the communities for personal interests.
Matthieu DALLON
President & CEO
Ligarena / ESWC
www.esworldcup.com
grrrrrrr
Angel Munoz is stupid…
A war has begun! :&
:(sad
ESWC > CPL all times
making things even more complicated is the fact that eswc will be using cs1.6 and cpl cs:s. Not so much of an issue for the pk scene, but not very good for esports either :/
damn CPL…. :/
Holy shit, that’s harsh. I’m not saying the CPL doesn’t deserve it, but wow. I would think they wouldn’t be as hostile so openly like this.
It’s the kind of rationale an ex-investment banker would come up with. I think Munoz needs to look at Nash’s contribution to competitive thinking in win-lose confrontations.
even tho the prize money was small i think the ESWC event last year owned ;/
btw … i talked about that 2 or 3 news before … but cpl answered that they “don’t know” coz ligarena has not release any official date . it’s a kind of “pee/poo” fight … hf guy
3 or 4 years eswc take place at the same date and cpl add warcraft:p they really want to fight with eswc
fuck off cpl!!!
Lets just hope cpl wont use their rights over Painkiller for exclusivity. We want PK at eswc! we want eswc! Damn contract.
yeah yeah 😛
i don’t know those people, excep gellehsak and chaoticz. maybe there’s fake nicks only? 😛
1. fnatic\gellehsak | 6. wr3ck
finals tbh.
interesting to he howmany top CoD players are in this, and the lack of daler :S
cq (tournament admin) says daler and fatality declined, and rix and zen are away from home
Did Lexer stop playing Painkiller after the CPL winter event?
Lexer is back in Russia iirc