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http://www.esl.eu/eu/brink/news/158869/

We proudly announce that we will start a European Brink Championship, the day this new title will be released! €15.000 are waiting für Europe’s best teams! The big final will take place in August 2011, at the Gamescom in Cologne. Prepare for the battle now and maybe you will be on the stage while about 2 million people are watching you, at the world’s biggest fair for interactive games!
Brink is the brand new post apocalyptic tactic shooter by Bethesda! It will be released May 13th 2011. On the day of the release we will start several opening cups, release cups in different modes and of course the Brink Championship with €15.000 prize money. Celebrate BRINK with us in this firework of fun events and serious challenges!

BRINK has been getting lots of attention right from the start. This shooter truly has potential and deserves every second that we spend on it, figuring out cups that will be your taste in this balanced FPS and the rules that we will need so you can enjoy the tournaments at the fullest. Several national and European cups will be open for the BRINK teams that you’ll form before the release and in the first days after it.

Qualify for the playoffs in our European Championship and play your final at Gamescom 2011. Thousands of people will be watching live, sitting in front of the biggest stage western eSports has ever seen. Your match broadcast in more than 30 languages, followed by about 4 million people? That is something for people who want to prove that they can master a new shooter in a short period of time, the challenge is on! We are sure that this kind of new challenge was what many of you were only waiting for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFFxKW4pIb4&

http://thebrink.tv

How can you run a 15k prize tourney for a game that doesn’t even have a ruleset yet?

Happens with a bunch of games on release, usually CoD titles when Activision provides a huge prize pool for the first tourny in a game that’s been out for like a week.

Quoted from Skyride

How can you run a 15k prize tourney for a game that doesn’t even have a ruleset yet?

rule set is easy 5v5 and play

Still waiting for ESL ENC money from July 2010

Yay :)

Is there not a danger here of rushing things? I am not sure how anyone knows anything about the game atm. People are still doing new things with TF2 after 4/5 years. Now there is 15,000 euro prize pot that can be won by almost anyone, because of the lack of knowledge of the game (obviously aim/gamesense/teamwork can carry over from other games, but point still stands). IDK seems weird to me, but I guess they know what they are doing, but it seems like the hype machine has done this, wondering if it has long lasting appeal like CS.

rogl Brink is a bad game.

If top teams wanna go to Brink their choice, we’ll keep playing TF2 and having fun.