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ESEA Invite with $39,500 prize purse

9/7/2013 - 02:57

ESEA has announced the complete prize breakdown for the Invite division of season 14.

ESEA 14 may already be reaching its latter stages, but the exact prize purse and its distribution remained a mystery to everyone, including the teams.

The prize pool for the season has been set at $39,500, which represents a $3,500 increase when compared to last season's purse.

ESEA 14 finals will be held in August

There are also $23,500 up for grabs in the other CS:GO divisions that are taking place all over the world, bringing the total prize purse for this game alone to $63,000.

ESEA 14 Invite prize distribution:

1. $20,000
2. $8,000
3. $4,000
4. $2,500
5-6. $1,500
6-6. $1,500
7-8. $1,000
7-8. $1,000

ESEA 14 finals will take place from August 16th through 18th at the Double Tree Hilton, in Dallas. You can check out the schedule of the tournament by going here.

Nice first place. And with ESEA you actually get the money.

2013-07-09 03:57

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Did ESEA ever pay people for that whole bitcoin scandal? Also did they show any proof for the charity donation they were going to do? Took some time off after all that happened so wasnt able to follow it

2013-07-09 08:44

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ESEA posted a response literally within hours of that bitcoin news post. As well as an official statement a day after, which you can easily google. The better question is why does Invite get such a high prizepool, when in fact it is the lower league(90%+ of playerbase in ESEA) that actually pays for this prize purse.

2013-07-09 09:01

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esea is trash... they killed the cs online scene.

2013-07-09 09:55

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actually they are the only reason anyone plays cs in north america. without esea there wouldn't be anything comparable left. how do i know? because nothing comparable ever existed before.

2013-07-09 14:23

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Actually, people would still play cs in NA if esea didnt exist, except they would be able to play for free and do it the old-school way...IRC. It was much better before esea came around. Now esea prevents any other NA cs communities from gaining a foothold. Its a shame, especially when the owners of the company are shitty human beings.

2013-07-09 15:22

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rofl, you are so stupid you probably tried esea, got owned, then talk shit to them without esea, theres no competitive cs in NA

2013-07-09 15:55

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Ah I love reading comments by dumb people, it's just plain funny. "Oh you dislike the monopoly ESEA has?! WELL IT'S BECAUSE YOU PLAYED IN IT AND SUCKED!" 10/10 logic and argument.

2013-07-09 16:08

ESEA exists BECAUSE of the compeittive scene, and not the other way around. ESEA was in a great place at a good time to capitalize on the market. Unfortunately, they shit all over the scene as soon as they got the monopoly they wanted and continue to do so. ESEA does not value their customers, all they value is what is in their customer's pockets. I gotta admit it was agreat business strategy, but they hold the scene back bigtime and prevent the playerbase from growing organically into something bigger and better. I wish valve would cut them down somehow.

2013-07-09 16:12

it almost seems like people switched because they figured esea's system is better? is there something stopping you from logging on to irc? can you not start channels anymore in gamesurge? are there no servers outside of esea in north america? the fact is everyone likes esea better (because it is amazing; i should know, i've played both in usa and in europe) and that's why no one is using irc. also, without esea there clearly wouldn't be any tournaments to play in, let alone ones with such massive prizes.

2013-07-09 16:33

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99% of na cs'ers dont play for money or play in lan tournaments. People dont stick to esea just because 'its better', they stick to it because once it captured the majority of cs players, you cant find any good players or communities anywhere else. its a shame, really. it ruined the community and turned it into a big stats circlejerk while kane and torbull laugh all the way to the bank. to them, the cs scene is the 'gift that keeps on giving' and they have 0 respect for it as evidenced by the bitcoin scandal among a million other horror stories of terrible customer service. esea hurts the cs scene, period.

2013-07-09 16:50

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I would say from my own observations that having ESEA alone is a good thing and a bad thing, good thing is it gives a great enviroment to players from mid + skill level to compete and mix while low tier players, which is what CS:GO at the mooment needs the most, don't have a proper league to play in. This also the problem with the whole #narevival, while it is a great action, it's not rightly set. It should be aimed at the low end scene and create more cups and open leagues for the new teams and players. I actually think this could be a great opportunity for ESL and its NA version as GO4CSGO and Open ladders ect. are usually popular amog these players.

2013-07-09 20:10

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i seen nothing special about esea. and ur telling me people joined on esea because its better the mirc.. correction people jumped on esea because it has an anti cheat client..and majoirty of the people who play on esea just pug... they dont even play in the leagues,thats why the deathmatches are dead,the aim map servers are always dead, and so are the scrims servers during the day,.whats so special about esea, people pug and troll 24/7, findringer fuckin blows on it and its the slowest thing ever,rws is the shitty stats system ever made,this .block and -karma system is the most pointless thing ever where trolls abuse it.to join an good open team you gotta be like invite,oh yea you have few nuking useless posts, while he allows unacceptable threads continue to troll,you can get banned for opening support tickets,if you kick trolls from the the pugs,people can dispute it and win while the person who kicked them get banned for a month even showing proof of envidence fro ma youtube video showing how they were trolling in the pug for the reason why they were getting kicked. in irc, you pretty much can scrimmed 24/7, the trolling was at a low, you can pretty much meet new people, you didnt get trolled 24/7 like you do in esea pugs,to actually make a team or tryout for a team it wasnt that hard or slow then it is on esea,on esea its pretty much all about gathers or pugs...

2013-07-09 21:03

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and majority of the time you have people ghosting in pugs, or stacking teams in pug where people are in mumble and vent where they decide not to communicate with the team because they need to frag hunt to make there stats better so they increase there adr and fpr and rws,and 99% of the times in pugs nobody communicates because everyones a mute.

2013-07-09 21:14

theres 249 open team exacly (only in NA) so that mean 2500 MINIMUM players who play in open The majority play the league

2013-07-09 22:55

Yes I remember about the news posts but did anybody bother to follow it up to make sure they stayed true to their word?

2013-07-09 10:26

The better question is why does Invite get such a high prizepool, when in fact it is the lower league(90%+ of playerbase in ESEA) that actually pays for this prize purse. Are you serious with this question? Do you think they shouldn't do pro tournaments at all, or that they should focus on amateur level tournaments (which do not bring any viewers or profits)?

2013-07-09 15:16

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"herpderp" suiting name.

2013-07-09 15:33

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You make a compelling argument, but I'm not convinced. There is nothing strange about ESEA profits going to pro tournaments. It's the best thing for sponsors, the pro scene, and viewers. If amateurs want to compete for real money, then they need to get better, not have ESEA waste money on a tournament for teams who would probably be happy to play for a first place pool of $50.

2013-07-09 15:42

imgur.com/bxzgoWN about esea and bitcoins

2013-07-09 11:07

ye , they gave me 115 Dollars for a new and equal to mine 250 dollars video card... :|

2013-07-09 11:46

I need dollars, dollars, dollars is what I need, HEY HEY!

2013-07-09 03:58

20k for verygames 10k for shoxie ex6tense pays for hotel

2013-07-09 04:02

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VG low

2013-07-09 04:21

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haha what?

2013-07-09 07:06

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VG low sources

2013-07-09 08:02

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i lold man

2013-07-09 10:53

delete

2013-07-09 22:07

Fat money! TWENNIE K!

2013-07-09 04:05

oh nice!!!

2013-07-09 04:06

OHH YEAH !

2013-07-09 04:07

I hope Curse can do some damage they seem good, i dont think NiP are as favorites as they were before.

2013-07-09 04:13

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2013-07-09 04:38

Why not in nyc ???? Sick

2013-07-09 04:15

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cuz Dallas

2013-07-09 04:29

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Dallas baby. Although, why not Houston?

2013-07-09 05:15

nice

2013-07-09 04:20

money easy for nip

2013-07-09 04:37

dat prize!!

2013-07-09 05:12

Thanks LpCoins

2013-07-09 05:16

fuck yes bibblytigwig bobo

2013-07-09 05:27

cs:go dying loL

2013-07-09 05:40

20k for the first... seems like good old times are coming back.

2013-07-09 05:42

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Because of the Bitcoins...

2013-07-09 06:47

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Yeah, but still.

2013-07-09 11:33

They couldn't add another $500 to make it an even $40k? Cheap bastards...

2013-07-09 05:52

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lol

2013-07-09 09:59

I guess it's American thing. Like "only for $9.99!"

2013-07-09 11:34

Nais

2013-07-09 06:06

NiP easy money! :P

2013-07-09 07:10

9-10 bitcoins

2013-07-09 07:19

3,500 more because they fucking scammed you with the bitcoins.

2013-07-09 07:38

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and its not even the full amount they added like the promised.

2013-07-09 07:53

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That amount was added into this seasons prize-pot if I'm not mistaken.

2013-07-09 08:11

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and what is this were are here talking about hu? This is the prize pot

2013-07-09 08:54

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hes talking about the TOTAL prize pot, for open, intermidiaire, main and invite

2013-07-09 15:56

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since when has open even a prize pot?

2013-07-09 18:53

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since always you dumb fuck, stop asking stupid fucking questions if you're willingly ignorant.

2013-07-09 20:30

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what does the first in open season recieve?

2013-07-10 01:08

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900$

2013-07-11 23:22

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didnt knew that. Well at least in the EU open they dont get anything beside going up?

2013-07-12 00:20

Great news

2013-07-09 08:10

Nice Bitcoin Money :-).

2013-07-09 08:45

when these finals?

2013-07-09 08:45

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ESEA 14 finals will take place from August 16th through 18th at the Double Tree Hilton, in Dallas. read the text.

2013-07-09 08:48

a lot of money for NiP/VG

2013-07-09 08:58

awesome news ;)

2013-07-09 09:50

ESEA: "Prize purse is special thanks to every one of you braindead morons who downloaded our bitcoin mining program. P.S. We've updated it to run in the background without you noticing now"

2013-07-09 09:51

ESC GAMING will at this tour.... ???

2013-07-09 10:09

nice news, a lot of money is good motivation Na'Vi,n!,VP. .

2013-07-09 10:51

easy win for VG!!

2013-07-09 11:20

VG wins EMS One = Best team in zeh world = i lol'd

2013-07-09 11:58

bitcoin money

2013-07-09 11:59

None of the EU teams will attend, because the flights are too expensive, the only exeption is Na'Vi. Source: csgo.99damage.de/de/news/10585-esea-scht.. [mnL's post #16]

2013-07-09 12:35

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So NiP doesn't expect to win. Super funny :D

2013-07-09 13:16

That's not true

2013-07-09 13:33

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s1.directupload.net/images/130709/8yhdf9..

2013-07-09 13:48

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Well I'm pretty sure that NiP will attend if they qualify but yeah.. sad to see the flight is so expensive. Otherwise ESEA must put in more money in the prizepool or change the date, else we will pretty much only see american teams attend.

2013-07-09 13:55

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VP and fnatic could probably attend.

2013-07-09 14:46

dayummmmm!

2013-07-09 12:45

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I've read it as well. So it Looks like that the flights are more expensive than last ESEA season? Because last season VG and NiP attended the Event. Confuses me to be honest... LDLC is clear, they aren't a big Organisation and don't have the Sponsors for it.

2013-07-09 13:10

shame if teams can't actually afford to go

2013-07-09 13:49

I hope they will have better casters then last time Correy was great others horrible......

2013-07-09 13:54

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Correy is the worst caster. I really wish theyd let more former rpos cast like rambo or ksharp. Correy jus says dumb stuff too often and has no idea how to read the strategies the teams are running.

2013-07-09 15:27

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yeah but he casted spawn's famous ninja defuse attempt vs NiP... LEGENDARY

2013-07-09 18:19

he's a play-by-play caster, that's what they fucking do. i agree with you about bringing someone to analyze rounds but that person's gonna need someone to cast what's happening in real time otherwise it's a boring as fuck lecture from some self-centered geek.

2013-07-09 20:34

Wake up you think dust or I dont know nick name is better? He is best caster in USA nowdays, semmler is really great too. I dont think that ESEA add europe caster. Corey or semmmler are best choice

2013-07-09 22:53

we are coming...sit tight

2013-07-09 14:32

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i.imgur.com/ACniWRW.jpg Euros are not attending(maybe)

2013-07-09 15:01

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Jim still thinks he's going to dallas..

2013-07-10 03:41

i.imgur.com/ACniWRW.jpg Euros are not attending(maybe)

2013-07-09 15:01

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Haha, probably online finals. ROFL.

2013-07-10 03:54

Nice CS:GO stronk

2013-07-09 15:24

big moneys

2013-07-09 15:47

nice prize distribubion

2013-07-09 15:49

NiP needs to prep, that is a nice 1st place.

2013-07-09 15:52

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thats nothing compared to trip cash, they probably will use 15,000$ just for the trip. only the flight costs about 7,000 for 5guys.

2013-07-09 16:19

Is the $20,000 the biggest first place prize yet? Dreamhack 2013, Starladder, and RaidCall EMS One Summer 2013 didn't have a 1st place prize that big and yes I did convert the currency to US dollars.

2013-07-09 16:02

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Copenhagen Games 2013 had 16,500€ which is around $21,000

2013-07-09 16:56

Seems like they have to move the finals to europe if they want any high profile teams and spectators.

2013-07-09 17:19

nice gl csgo

2013-07-09 19:16

Na is broken just with ESEA , needs more challenges and leagues , CEVO is dead ! so Na never gonna beat EU scene just with ESEA "curse" doesnt feel any pressure in NA , means they couldnt get better just playing with bad teams which lvl is funny than EU ... = bad opposite: just look at NIP how many teams can playing at the same lvl as they r ... (VP ,VG , WW, NaVi ,ESC ,LDLC ,Epsilon ,Fnatic ). and after that just imagine the LVL NA and EU . pz

2013-07-09 20:08