I am well aware of the cost, that's why I said the quality of the teams at Quakecon is low for ET. Apart from cash prizes, quakecon for ET has nothing over CPC. I don't see too many Euros going this year hence the quality will be low again for ET (notice I said for ET a few times already, not talking about other games).
For ET, QuakeCon should be held in Europe.
but with the respected and full of money mgc taking Et teams there is still a chance for a really great qcon this year
yeah lets not forget who ended up second in 2005