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Cool idea.
Perhaps we could have a satellite cups, like in poker, where you can pay a smaller amount to enter and the winner wins their entry to the prem.

My only concern would be ETF2L’s lack of anti-cheat/anti-script measures.

It would probably also make for a much larger skill gap as the top teams and players push harder and become more relucatant to share their experience and knowledge as money is involved.

Won’t somebody think of the children?! :(

Well this was mainly to be aimed at the top teams with orgs that would pay for it rather than people out of their own pocket, but I’d do a tiered system so other teams could enter as well if they wanted.

now that a lot of clans found a multigaming organisation I think this is a good idea :)

there is a need for more leagues/cups with prizemoney and it shouldnt be a problem to get money now

Tbh, I love the fact that this site is completely ad free.
I’d rather not visit a site with a bunch of ad’s on it (eg every other gamessite)

Well this was mainly to be aimed at the top teams with orgs that would pay for it rather than people out of their own pocket, but I’d do a tiered system so other teams could enter as well if they wanted.

If you are only aiming at the top level teams, why do you even bother letting division 5 teams play (as you clearly stated). That doesnt really make much sense to me!

An entry fee based system is basically a good idea. However, this concept lacks some of the basic outlines of a successfull tournament (as some have pointed out already).

1. First and foremost:

Start out humble! Having a multi-divisional teams in one large pot will result in failure right away. As f2 has pointed out already: Donating money to Mick always feels bad. Really bad!

Set your first “Season” or “Tournament” up as Division 1 only. Meaning, you allow “Buy-ins” if a team really wants to play and donate money, even though they have absolutely no shot at reaching No. 1. This way, you will get a 10 or 12 team competition, tops. I can’t really see Division 2 teams paying money for scoring a 8th place though.

See if your resources and ideas are fit for this first run and if it is you can start planning a big event with multi divisions, maybe a common prizepot and a prize distribution for all division.

2. Get some Advertising on this page!

Good placed advertising can indeed improve the rating of a website, instead of rejecting visitors. You have enough space on this page for a skyskraper and a full-size banner f.e.. Im running advertising on my World of warcraft website aswell (full-size + skyskraper) and Im getting a solid 600 € / month. If you can reach similiar numbers (I have no idea what your visitor numbers are), you can put most of that money into prizemoney. If you focus on the ETF2L League (3 leagues / year), you would have a prizefund of 2400 € for each League. Now isn’t that something!

3. Coverage

Good organized coverage for such a big event is always a great bonus. But i believe with those 3 coverage sites everything should be covered ;). Don’t forget to organize 500 slots sourcetv servers for the games, even for those you have coverage.

4. If you wanna be the best, you better win every map

Competitions nowadays are based on 2, 3 maps tops. And you can quite easily predict the top 3 teams on maps like badlands, granary and maybe gravelpit. But what happens when you turn that pool upside down? What happens, if 4Kings or TCM have to prove themselve on freight or fastlane or redstone or science? Create an envirement with fixed mappools, make sure every team has to play the same maps throughout the competition. Will be interesting to see if the top 3 can really prevail on every map.

@Riemu

I”m surprised that your advertising brings in that much, and if used correctly, could definately go towards a prize pot. With sponsors, that could perhaps be brought up to around €3000? That would be a great start at attracting some more MGOs and TF2 being seen as a bigger game.

Perhaps it would be possible to spread some of that money across some of the divisions? This would encourage more teams – especially around the division 3 level, who often fold if they arn’t pushing towards Div 2 – to stay together and play till the end of the season. If this meant that the prize for Div 1 wasn’t very high, perhaps they could each pay a small amount to enter, taking their allocated money up significantly?

The only drawback with this is obviously the advertising – as previously stated, this site is unique in that it has no huge flashing banners, which is really nice. However, if done reasonably tastefully, I think people would get used to it – especially if it was bringing in a large prize pot. I think perhaps one of the reasons ETF2L might not have been taken quite so seriously was because it didn’t have tons of sponsors splashed all over it, and most MGOs think this means it’s just a fun league, not serious.

I don’t know what site Riemu is talking about but it’d be cool if he’d post the link so we can check out how much advertising there is.

And Wlv, don’t take it to LAN :( Not everyone is 20+ with freedom to get to Holland easily :P

no it’s this one