Warzone pros complain about \u201cparticipation money\u201d in $300k tournament ActivisionCall of Duty: Warzone pros make a lot of money playing a game, but some aren\u2019t happy about an upcoming prize pool. Unimpressed with \u201cparticipation money,\u201d streamers like Aydan and Super Evan questioned the $300k World Series of Warzone. On September 8, Call of Duty\u2019s official Twitter account revealed the prizing breakdown for the $300,000 World Series of Warzone, which is scheduled for September 15. Like former WSOW and Twitch Rivals events, the tournament\u2019s prizing is on a fairly flat curve \u2014 with $40,000 going to the first-place team and $1,600 going to each of the squads from 26th to 35th. Additionally, $100,000 is reserved solely for the event\u2019s five organizer-selected captains. It\u2019s still a lot of money being handed out, but Warzone\u2019s highest all-time earner, Aydan \u2018Aydan\u2019 Conrad, was not impressed \u2014 and neither were many of his fellow pros. As Aydan tweeted in response to the prize-pool graphic, the tournament seems to be \u201cgiving out participation money.\u201d And, for good measure, he tossed on a sleeping emoji, likely symbolizing that this decision is a snooze. And Aydan wasn\u2019t alone in his response to the prizing breakdown. In the replies, he and zColorss discussed how the captains\u2019 $100,000 should be added to the placement purse. Separately, SuperEvan \u2014 August\u2019s highest-ranked player \u2014 tweeted about the prizing as well. Evan\u2019s tweet focused more on the top end of the rewards, rather than the participation money: \u201cThe winner gets $40k? Lmao right.\u201d $300k tournament and the winner gets $40k? Lmao right \u2014 XSET SuperEvan (@SuperEvan__) September 8, 2021 Both Evan and Aydan have made over $200,000 from Warzone tournaments, so they\u2019re no strangers to prizing. In the replies, other smaller names agree with the concerns, questioning the $100,000 given to the tournament\u2019s five biggest names and why the best performers take home such a relatively small cut of the pie. World Series of Warzone events have featured five pre-selected captains, who choose their own teams and then draft other, non-captained teams to play under their banner. And, based on how those teams perform, the captains receive a cut of $100,000. Overall, the streamers seem concerned that this prizing breakdown gives too much to both the tournament\u2019s five biggest names and to its worst performers. No word yet on whether or not CoD and Twitch will consider shaking it up in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Warzone pros complain about \u201cparticipation money\u201d in $300k tournament ActivisionCall of Duty: Warzone pros make a lot of money playing a game, but some aren\u2019t happy about an upcoming prize pool. Unimpressed with \u201cparticipation money,\u201d streamers like Aydan and Super Evan questioned the $300k World Series of Warzone. On September 8, Call of Duty\u2019s official […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}