It seems that Multiplay have recently announced their full line up of tournaments and prize pools for the upcoming event insomnia57 which will be heading to Birmingham in March 2016.
After an incredibly successful year for Multiplay, with prize pools being at their very highest, the big GAME buy out, and the move to the NEC, one would suspect that 2016 could be an even better year for them. They dished out £25k last year to Counter-Strike:Global Offensive alone, which in turn saw two of the biggest turn outs for a very long time, with 80 teams at insomnia55 and 54 teams at insomnia56 respectively.
However it seems that Multiplay wanted to be a lot more even in their prize pool distribution for insomnia57 as all the prize pools for the 5v5 games come in at £5k despite the disparity on team turn outs.
Here are the full prize pools for insomnia57:
- Counter-Strike:Global Offensive – £5k
- Dota2 – £5k
- League Of Legends – £5k
- Rocket League – £3k
- Street Fighter V (PS4) – £1k
We believe these are just base prize pools and could grow with sponsorships, but it is incredibly disappointing for CS:GO to have a lower prize pool than the previous two events despite considerable growth within the scene and the consistent nature of support that the scene gives to Multiplay. Especially as both League Of Legends and Dota2 just simply don’t grow either at their events.
It should be noted that the online qualifiers before LAN are a good step in the right direction, and those sign ups are still open to all teams currently, head over to the sign up page here to make sure you are in the tournament.
insomnia57 will be taking place on the weekend 25th – 28th March, and will be at the NEC in Birmingham. We of course will be there covering all aspects of the CS:GO tournament.
