AEF Payday Is Upon Us!
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21 May 2010, 15:32
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News
Today is the day you've all been waiting for (or not so much for some). At 9 pm CET (GMT+1), the sales will open. You'll find bankdetails and more information right here when the time comes. Remember only one payment per team, so no partial payments are allowed!
Yet there seem to be many teams and players that didn't read anything about AEF but still want to go. So here is a summary of things you need to know if you want to go to AEF. Now you really have no excuse anymore to not know these bulletpoints!
When to pay:
TODAY, 21:00 CET (20:00 GMT)
€300
Number of slots:
At least 16, can go up to 48 depending on how many teams sign up fast.
Prizes:
16 teams - €3.000
24 teams - €4.500
32 teams - €6.000
48 teams - €7.500
Need a team or players?
http://www.crossfire.nu/?x=forum&mode=item&id=30161
Other info?
Check out the official newspost: http://www.crossfire.nu/?x=news&mode=item&id=5801
Check out the forum sticky: http://www.crossfire.nu/?x=forum&mode=item&id=30276
that's next week! .... äääähhm .. No?!
just a small question to make it clear for me
Nadat er 16 teams zijn, zijn er waarschijnlijk nog steeds teams die tickets willen kopen, als die dan geld overmaken, maar de limiet van 24 teams wordt niet bereikt, wat gebeurt er dan? of worden er meteen 8 tickets beschikbaar gesteld voor ET (nadat de eerste 16 zijn verkocht)
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and as Worm already asked:
To who are the prizes paid? First 3? 5?
2) Dat is nog niet zeker :)
40 teams = 7500
or
48 teams = 9000
otherwise the calculations are wrong.
Don't act as a retard Spiro, thanks.
the cost function is like the logarithmic one
I'll paint the picture for you so it might make a little more sense of what I'm trying to say.
each team has to pay 300 for admission.
with 16 teams that means that 3000/16 = 187.5 euro's goes into the pricepot. The other 112.5 goes to expenses and what not.
now let's continue that list
with 24 teams it's 4500/24 = 187.50 euro's
with 32 teams it's 6000/32 = 187.50 euro's
with 48 teams it's 7500/48 = 156.25 euro's
So basically, the more successful the registration is, the least amount of the fee is available for the pricepot, and that in itself doesn't make any sense at all. In any normal business model success means that you can be more efficient with expenses. Take renting out the hangar for instance. The more teams there are, the more income you have and the easier it will be to pay for such expenses.
Now, would it be the case that only a certain number of PC's are available and with more teams than a specific number it would mean you'd have to go to a more expensive source for PC's, then it's understandable, but otherwise I don't see much logic in the fact that 16, 24 and 32 teams means the same amount of money of entrancefee goes into the pot, but with the high amount of 48, only a little more than half goes in. So perhaps you can shed some light as to why these amounts were chosen and how you got to those amounts.
Like you said i reckon they will probably need to get their hands on more pc's than originally planned, possibly to a higher rate than the ones they already have. then there might be the need for more people in the organising crew? or they will do it with the same amount of people but it will mean they will have to put more time in to it?
also i dont see why they would need to argue their choices i'm pretty sure seeing as they have already hosted at least one (more?) succesful event before they will know what they are doing.
But yah, like I said, the only reason I can see if that they'd have to go with a different PC supplier that is more expensive, or that they'd have to rent extra space in the hanger, possibly an extra conference room to host it in that has specific rates or something similar like that. Otherwise it just doesn't make much sense.
As for extra crew members being needed, that is the one thing they'd actually win money on instead of costing more money. I've been involved with organizing a bunch of techno-parties and the same principle applies with increasing numbers here, it simply results in lower overall costs on needed crew.
This shouldn't apply to AEF though, so they should indeed be increasing the proportion of payout as signups increase.
:P
awesome English!!
This being said, why can't the organization (Gamevibes) take a part of the profits when they manage to house more than 32 teams? 32 teams mean that it's a successful lan, which means that beyond that it's fair to give some value back to the organization. We aren't taking any profit from all this when we don't reach more than 32 teams, so cut the organization some slack, they deserve it!
And imo €7.500 is the biggest prizepurse since Quakecon, so I really don't get it why you're complaining about this :/
As far as I know all the limits are based on number of PCs rather then number of attendees. as PCs are the hardest and most expensive thing to get hold of, the venue itself could probably quite easily accommodate 48 teams for all 3 games, keep in mind that this prize scheme is used for all 3 games, So I guess they justified it as: the game(s) that cause the event to exceed the planned allowance of PCs would be the main contributors to the costs of renting additional PCs
':D'
love the reply though, pure lolled :O(
expenses/organization time/manpower increase with more teams i guess
:DDDD
aestas é, ma die hebben al een golden ster naast hun naam ;-)
keep up the good work and gl!
our sponsor is paying on friday ...we know its too late :(
we even have faky in our team !
and then nobody would take us :pp
and gl !
;)
ps: is she hot?