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As many know the sponsor for the prize pool for the UF on Tour Chicago event failed to follow through and left us in a poor position. With the lower than minimum threshold turnout, we actually did not bring in enough revenue to cover the cost of the event. We were actually comfortable with the latter part because we were led to believe the sponsor was covering the Prize money. This was a difficult position to be in and has affected everyone involved. With that being said we had a second solution worked out, and everything was going to be good. That has since changed. Unfortunately they decided that it was not financially possible to come to our need. While we are disappointed about this, we do respect that they did come to us and actually inform us of their intent to decline. Where that leaves us and those affected: We are still working on a solution to get our teams that earned winnings their compensation. For those that need new checks or have not received them, we will not send new ones until we can send a cashier’s check. We understand that many of you will be upset, and you have every right to be. We are as upset about the situation as you guys are. This is a low blow to our community. We will continue to push forward and our priority is to get the winners taken care of and our next event 100% prefunded. We will continue to be available any time to provide updates on our progress as we work to resolve this situation. For direct contact you can reach us via the Contact Us Form.

The last week and a half or more have been really crappy for me. I live in Vegas, and its damn hot here. We left a couple of computer’s on when we left the house Monday before last. The A/C went down, then my daughter’s PC and mine over heated and burnt out some components. It took most of 4 days to get the A/C back and another 3 to get the parts to fix both my daughters PC and Mine. I’ve been busy with college classes since then, and I thought my troubles were behind me. Then the **** hit the fan. Specifically, Esports ****. It had in fact been hitting the fan during the entire time I was offline. It probably started just before I went offline, and I was blissfully unaware. My main concern is competitive gaming, Esports (even though I hate to call it that), and a lot of bad things have been happening in Esports lately. I decided to run through these things even if they’re a couple of weeks old, because it touches on some arguments I have had in the past regarding competition and competitive players intolerance for noob and casual players. It’s not a one sided argument either. The link below is the first part. It’s a video of supposedly “professional gamers,” team impact, at a supposedly “professional event,” going off on their opponents and the crowd of spectators and fans. Without those same spectators and fans they wouldn’t be where they are to talk the trash that they are. Their Sponsors were NOT pleased, and it looks like they’re going to lose one of their team members if it hasn’t happened already. The worst thing is that the event organizers didn’t step in to stop them, even when they started trash talking the crowd. These guys are basically cutting off their nose to spite their face. It’s not exactly E for everyone, so if that bothers you don’t watch. http://www.charlieintel.com/2013/08/12/team-epsilon-takes-trash-talking-to-a-new-level-at-umg-atlanta/ Update: End of story, Epsilon dropped the entire team, and two members have left the team. Here’s an article about it. http://www.charlieintel.com/2013/08/12/team-epsilon-takes-trash-talking-to-a-new-level-at-umg-atlanta/ In 2007 WSVG’s season opener in Wuhan China had 100,000 live spectators, that’s 100,000 people actually attended the tournament. By august that same year WSVG was burnt toast. In their last tournament they had technical problems, and the tournament was delayed for most of a day. They finished but they lost their sponsors and that was it. WSVG never recovered. I never found out if they managed to pay off the prize money, but people were complaining about that for months afterward. Sponsors have ditched their obligations for less, and organizers have screwed the pouch on that a time or two themselves. That first video in this post is an illustration of how the players themselves can screw these things up for a lot of others besides themselves. The quote below is from a Starcraft2 write-up on reddit, it’s 10 months old. I’ve included a link in the quote. If you’re reading this entire post, and going thru the links, you’ll find out why this write-up turns out to be nearly prophetic. They’re having some problems, and they’re not the only ones. Present day… MLG has no fall season. There is an invitational tournament for BOPS2 and Dota2 at Winter Park, Florida. That’s it. The prize purses are smaller than usual and the dates were conflicting with a UMG tournament schedule, no one was happy about that. The invitational will also have an impact on seeding for the next season. MLG has dropped SC2, (See the prophetic write-up above) and the rumor is that “riot games” has pulled LoL out of MLG. I haven’t seen confirmation of that yet, regardless, they still don’t have a fall season, and LoL is conspicuously absent from the invitational. I’m virtually certain that MLG is also experiencing issues with their sponsors over this. I’m coming from the Xbox community and I haven’t got a PlayStation yet. Anyone here that can tell me what games on PlayStation now, or planned for future release, have the potential for serious professional competition? I’d appreciate any comments, or explanation/discussion about it, and If I could trouble you for any links for supporting articles or video’s, that would be even better.

For the third year in a row, Radio PlayStation brings you the Show Us Your Junk contest! Now, some of you might be thinking, “You want me to show you my WHAT?!†But fear not! We are looking for you to send us a photo of your gaming set-up or a picture of gaming swag you own. We will collect the pictures, post them here in a gallery, and on July 15th we will choose a winner. You don’t need the best set-up or have spent the most money to win; your photo is your ticket into the contest and the winner will be chosen at random. You show us your junk and we will give you a sack with a huge load! Now again, you might be thinking, “You’re going to give me WHAT?! I think I need to call the authorities.†But don’t do that. The prize is a wonderful PlayStation Plus sack, filled to the brim with E3 swag we obtained this year during our latest adventure. Check out the details below to see the prizes and how to enter. For you visual folks, here is a picture of what you win: The Prize: A PlayStation Plus bag filled with: 30 days of Music Unlimited Digital download of the Resident Evil movie PlayStation Mobile game: RYMDKAPSEL PlayStation Mobile game: Haunt The House PlayStation lanyard Gran Turismo hat Destiny T-shirt Killzone Shadow Fall T-Shirt The Last of Us Ellie’s T-Shirt That is right, all of those prizes could be yours! Oh, and I have something else to tell you; If we receive more than 50 entries, we will pick a second winner, who will also receive that huge load……..of PlayStation swag. And if we receive over 100 entries, we will throw in a little something extra for each winner! So, please, be sure to encourage your friends to enter. One of you could be the one to grab hold of our sack with a full load………of PlayStation swag! How To Enter: 1. Follow us on Twitter. 2. Take a picture or shoot a Vine of either your game set-up or your gaming swag. 3. Tweet @itsRadioPS said picture or Vine with this message: “I showed my junk, now give me your sack! #ShowUsYourJunk http://goo.gl/MmO15″ 4. Watch our live show on July 15th and see if you are announced as the receiver of our load……….of PlayStation swag. *You can send more than one picture or Vine, but it will not increase your chances of winning. *Must be in NA, due to the cost of shipping. Unless you are willing to pay the shipping costs. Let us know.

jokerzwild has won a Limited Edition Gears of War 3 Strategy Guide halorach has won a Signature Edition Gears of War 3 Strategy Guide Special thanks once again to BradyGames for providing the prizes and shipping them to the winners.

Hole 19 at Legend Golf and Safari Resort at Entabeni in the Limpopo province in South Africa. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1171227/Pictured-The-hardest-golf-shot-world--prize-hole-cool-1million.html http://www.heavensports.com/golf/worlds-hardest-golf-hole/

If you pre-order from Gamestop you get a gun..!? ;D

My buddy made this and first prize is 25,000 + 1% of all profits http://www.doritosguru.ca/tina_112/The Chins

I started a new gfx contest on GL.. I'm using it to see how many might be interested in doing more of them. and I need a new banner. ;D There is no prize, only for fun. (for this one) Anyone interested in showing off their skillz, or just want to help me out, check it out. >GFX Contest<

I been looking all over the net for Tournaments for Socom. I see im a lil late for the 4v4 which had its dead line on 11/24. Will there been Monthly Tournaments also how about Cash prize Tournaments?

Stay tuned in the next 2-3 weeks as UF will be announcing just-added prizes for the ultimate victors of UF: Riot Act. We had this in mind all through the creation process but decided not to say anything before or during sign-ups. Don't be expecting solid gold bars or anything but rest assured, the prize(s) being offered will be something NO one except the winners of Riot Act will ever have.

Let's hear 'em! Who's EXCITED here?! Know what the grand prize is? Listen to the podcast yet?

Some of you who will be around the UF community around midnight CST tonight should be getting QUITE a treat! Not only is the little door prize for UF4: PoW finally going to be revealed....but we're pretty sure the UF website itself is going to puff out its chest so much that it's going to break through that Lockdown we put it on last week. Oh wait....that's right....I forgot, in writing this, that Sniper already let everyone know that the damn door prize was going to be the UF headsets.......dammit! Ah well, I guess this post is only just going to be about the stupid lockdown coming down then. Sniper ruins all of my fun. I could just erase this post, but I'm going to hit "POST" for the hell of it anyway.

I thought I saw that the prize will be 28 custom new headsets is this true ??? And if Not What will be the prize for UF Black II ??? Just wondering!