29 Tournaments with cash prizes!
51 Different teams to take home some $$$!
236 Players can say that they won money for playing computer games!
24 Different nations can be proud!
It all racks up to a total of 114 517 $ thats 90 292 €!
Statistics like this should never be taken too seriously, however it does give a general idea of what the past of Enemy Territory has been like.
Though it took a lot of time, I had fun creating these charts and I have to admit that some of the things that came out surprised me quite a lot.
One Man Army - Jaka 'Jakazc' Keyzar is a phenomenal guy - he is the only Slovenian to ever have won money for playing ET and yet his success is enough to put Slovenia on the fifth place in the Nations rankings.
Godmode? - For ages Vaiko 'Night' Vainola was somwhat flying under the radar for countless fanboys. There since the beginning of RtCW he has become the single most successful ET player ever. Two QuakeCon titles, as many EC trophies and countless smaller achievements - He is the King of Enemy Territory. His own winnings alone would place him in top 5 in both Team and Nations rankings.
There when it matters - KiH and ET ? Yet the team has been present when big money has been handed out and despite not always haning around it has been enough for a 5th place among teams and helped Sweden to a nice 4th in the Nations rankings.
American dream - Not many europeans believe that Americans know how to play ET. Yet living in the land that is too far off for unsponsored European teams to reach and accidentally the country where QuakeCon is held helps u5.et to a 3rd place in the team rankings and the United States of America to the second place in the nations rankings. If we lived in America we could all sue our parents now for not giving birth to us there.
Do you know Team-pumu ? - pumu - the biggest star of all the video and picture material to come from QuakeCon 2006 attendees - is ranked 93rd among other ET players in the rankings. There is nothing unusual about that, but the fact that HUGE names like teKoa (48th) and mystic (tied for 49th) have earned just around 150 $ more seems way off. No discredit to pumu intended.
41,52% - This is how much of all the money have Estonian ET players won during the past few years. The Nation has been among the best for a while in Clanbase Nationscups and had quite a few great players already back in the RtCW days. But where is Israel ? They've had topteams in the scene for years, Belgium has just one player in the rankings, as does the UK. Does not having 1 extra special player mean so much? Jakazc led Slovenia and Anubis and gifty led Switzerland haven't been on the map by far as much as for example Israel and the UK.
THE FUTURE?
Crossfire Prizefight Challenge is already in a couple of weeks offering a 3000 € prizepot and the ESL has also decided to give out some money for the best ET players. We will probably see more ET in the Clanbase EC. And as you all probably remember in the following months we can all eagerly wait for the 10K $ Cheque from id Software which will mean even more Enemy Territory LAN action with cash prizes.
ET = dead? haha :)
This is a speculation, but what if Enemy Territory walks the path of CS 1.6 and Quake 3 - to remain times more popular than the sequel(s) Quakewars was fun, but I can hardly imagine it being a competitive game and "RtCW 2" is being made foremost for Xbox. What if those games fail to take over the ET players and spectators? Will it mean another quakecon? or two?
We will have to wait and see but it is certainly not impossible.
But as long as no new games are out to threaten ET yet, there are things to look forward to. Will the combinde total of cash prizes given out for ET reach the 100 000 $ margin? What about 100 000 €?
And what changes will the upcoming events make in the current money rankings of ET?
Tournaments to come that have some cash to be won in Enemy Territory!
Confirmed:
rWc 2v2 tournament - 625 $
Crossfire LAN 2 - 3000 €
Impact ET Masters - £250
Almost certain:
Clanbase Eurocup XV - Unknown
Crossfire LAN 3 - Unknown
Poznan Game Arena 2007 - Unknown
51 Different teams to take home some $$$!
236 Players can say that they won money for playing computer games!
24 Different nations can be proud!
It all racks up to a total of 114 517 $ thats 90 292 €!
Statistics like this should never be taken too seriously, however it does give a general idea of what the past of Enemy Territory has been like.
Though it took a lot of time, I had fun creating these charts and I have to admit that some of the things that came out surprised me quite a lot.
One Man Army - Jaka 'Jakazc' Keyzar is a phenomenal guy - he is the only Slovenian to ever have won money for playing ET and yet his success is enough to put Slovenia on the fifth place in the Nations rankings.
Godmode? - For ages Vaiko 'Night' Vainola was somwhat flying under the radar for countless fanboys. There since the beginning of RtCW he has become the single most successful ET player ever. Two QuakeCon titles, as many EC trophies and countless smaller achievements - He is the King of Enemy Territory. His own winnings alone would place him in top 5 in both Team and Nations rankings.
There when it matters - KiH and ET ? Yet the team has been present when big money has been handed out and despite not always haning around it has been enough for a 5th place among teams and helped Sweden to a nice 4th in the Nations rankings.
American dream - Not many europeans believe that Americans know how to play ET. Yet living in the land that is too far off for unsponsored European teams to reach and accidentally the country where QuakeCon is held helps u5.et to a 3rd place in the team rankings and the United States of America to the second place in the nations rankings. If we lived in America we could all sue our parents now for not giving birth to us there.
Do you know Team-pumu ? - pumu - the biggest star of all the video and picture material to come from QuakeCon 2006 attendees - is ranked 93rd among other ET players in the rankings. There is nothing unusual about that, but the fact that HUGE names like teKoa (48th) and mystic (tied for 49th) have earned just around 150 $ more seems way off. No discredit to pumu intended.
41,52% - This is how much of all the money have Estonian ET players won during the past few years. The Nation has been among the best for a while in Clanbase Nationscups and had quite a few great players already back in the RtCW days. But where is Israel ? They've had topteams in the scene for years, Belgium has just one player in the rankings, as does the UK. Does not having 1 extra special player mean so much? Jakazc led Slovenia and Anubis and gifty led Switzerland haven't been on the map by far as much as for example Israel and the UK.
THE FUTURE?
Crossfire Prizefight Challenge is already in a couple of weeks offering a 3000 € prizepot and the ESL has also decided to give out some money for the best ET players. We will probably see more ET in the Clanbase EC. And as you all probably remember in the following months we can all eagerly wait for the 10K $ Cheque from id Software which will mean even more Enemy Territory LAN action with cash prizes.
ET = dead? haha :)
This is a speculation, but what if Enemy Territory walks the path of CS 1.6 and Quake 3 - to remain times more popular than the sequel(s) Quakewars was fun, but I can hardly imagine it being a competitive game and "RtCW 2" is being made foremost for Xbox. What if those games fail to take over the ET players and spectators? Will it mean another quakecon? or two?
We will have to wait and see but it is certainly not impossible.
But as long as no new games are out to threaten ET yet, there are things to look forward to. Will the combinde total of cash prizes given out for ET reach the 100 000 $ margin? What about 100 000 €?
And what changes will the upcoming events make in the current money rankings of ET?
Tournaments to come that have some cash to be won in Enemy Territory!
Confirmed:
rWc 2v2 tournament - 625 $
Crossfire LAN 2 - 3000 €
Impact ET Masters - £250
Almost certain:
Clanbase Eurocup XV - Unknown
Crossfire LAN 3 - Unknown
Poznan Game Arena 2007 - Unknown
As for the comment itself, it is semi-inside joke, the article was first published in August and it had actually a lot of comments, which were all lost with the website change. If you'd look closely you'd notice I posted this comment two days before this was made a sticky.
This means that roughly 8500 $ - 9000 $ is not added in the players rankings and this amount is well big enough to cause some serious mixups in the rankings.
If anyone has any information please do contact me :) thanks
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not sure why they put Lugar in front of every clanname, but I think this was the lan you're talking about.
nice job :)
guess this is just an update
nice read
actually well I also ment the main idea of this article, same kind of layout and info in it.
What I do know that TosspoT did was rank teams throughout the wolfenstein series based on "worth of the victories" roughly at the same time.
My article was written after reading this ggl article - http://www.ggl.com/news.php?NewsId=3818
Hmm.. yes I remember Tossie writing about the whole wolfenstein scene since there was iNfensus included on the money prices.
Good stuff and hopefully people will realise that there is money/prices in Enemy Territory aswell. And what comes to those "et is dead"-comments, well they are usually written by arrogant ppl, youngsters also known as noobs or so...;)
Waiting for your next arcticle already, keep up the good work.
that was my point, no wonder if it looked familiar
THOSE ARE LIKE GOLD BRICKS
Sucky sucky 10 dolla? ;D
Nice read, thanks!
By the way, what about the "Lan Party Slask" in poland. Have there been any cash prizes?
FF won 5on5, diversus won 3on3 and LoCkheed won 1on1
btw night still first unexpected
my friends are laughing at me, they say that you cant earn anything in inet games :P
Minor detail:
Optihack 2005 Venue: Swedish Exhibition Centre ("Svenska Mässan") in Göteborg, Sweden
atleast 20
lfg brd/dm/lbrs :<
im in stv at the moment, lvl 32 mage
gank everyone u see @ stv
PS: I won a 12slot server once... ^^
Prizepot: 700 €
Rankings:
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2.
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4.
They were an all-Aus team, thus Australia can be added to the country winnings list.
Poznan 2007 you mean :)
Great -expensive- article
$$$ Bling Bling Bling $$$
TEH ONE AND ONLY !
I'm Tasslehoff ^^
NOT Tasselhoff
thx :)
I just had no idea :D. But it is great to find out about it now. Could you please provide a bit more information about this event? When was it who won money and what were the lineups for moneywinners.
btw, actually
They won Loser bracket, but losers from winner brackets didn't play in the loser bracket. Sad but true.
Sum-up here : http://wiki.enemyterritory.fr/index.php/ET_Fragland_3#Tableau_final
They won 500 euros whilst 3rd & 4th won just few goodies. :)
I heard there were Fragland 1 and 2 also with money prizes some time ago. Do you have any idea how I could get some information about those lans ?
imo, make a journal asking for some infos about Fragland 1 & 2
Many French read crossfire daily, some of them should help ...
if it's failed, I can ask for infos on et-fr forum.
rofl. fuck me :s
playing wolf since 2001 and thats it :P