Without reading all posts (I just found the thread by luck + borness) -
We host this year a cup with cash prize. I know about all (probably listed in this thread too) disadvantages, but we want to give it a try this year. Each year since 2002, there is hosted a normal tournament called Crespo's Worms Tournament. Some might know it, some don't. But a lot have changed since the tourney is born. Not many old fellows are active nowdays and also the original hoster Crespo has changed. Since 2007 the hoster changes each year, this time I have overtoke the job. Zemke is creating a site with full automatic report system and interactive stuffs .. Random00 agreed on helping at MOD stuffs too. So the MOD team contents mainly 3 wormers.
To the tourney itself:
There is no duty for 34 participants to donate money. Donating should be a free act. But our goal was to collect 150$. Then we have agreed on buying real cups (Gold, Silver, Bronze) and oversend them to winners. The rest of the money won't be invested into my appartement, it will be oversend to the (only) winner, too. So, you may notice there are some unpredictable factors: We don't know yet how many cash we will collect, we don't know how many the porto costs and don't let start with other problems connceted with the game.. But since 3 years the discussion came up from time to time. Now we wanted to give it a try!
Our new site will be launch at 1st of October, the tourney itself starts on 22.10.2010. Site is
www.cwtsite.com