Despite winning WESG 2018 almost a year ago, the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:event organizer has appar𝓡ently failed to pay $500,000 in prize money to Windigo - the team that won the e🔯vent.
The finals for WESG 2018 were played in March of 2019, meaning that the prize money has gone unpaid for almost a year. Further complicating matters is that Windigo ceased their 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:CS:GO operations in October of 2019, meaning that none of the players that played at the event are contracted to the orga🍸nization anymore. This is the point where a article says the first complaint about a lack of prize money had bee🍨n made, though WESG had apparently reached out to solve the issue at the time.
Fast forward to yesterday, when e🦩x-Windigo player Victor "v1c7oR" Dyankov took to Twitter saying:
The tweet was met with a response from a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:number of other players who claimed that they had received their payouts for the tournament. This left Windigo as seemingly the only one who had not been paid by WESG. Cas🌠per "Ruggah" Due, suggested that perhaps the money was being held by the Windigo organization, though v1c7oR quickly shut down that theory.
Other's such 🅰as, Jake Lucky and Dan "Pluto" Shatrov, instead pointed to issues with Windigo's bank accounts:
So far, this is all pure speculation and there has been no formal confirmation for any of these explanation🍷s that have been put forth as of now. Furthermore, neither WESG or Windigo has commented publicly a🃏bout the situation.
Regardless of where the blame lies, both Windigo and WESG should do everything in their power to find a solution to this problem as quickly as possible. $500,000 is no small chunk of change, and it's frankly unacceptable that this issue has been going on for nearly a year. This certainly could hurt the reputation of an 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:event organizer like WESG.
If it is an issue with Windigo's bank accounts, that could present a bigger problem. As Windigo no longer operates a CS:GO team, it would be interesting to know the legal precedent for this situation. Typically, players get the lion's share of the prize money, but it seems that it would have to paid to Wind🧸igo first. Since nonꦅe of the players are contracted with the organization, would they then still have to pay out the prize money owed to their former players?
This is a bad look for both Windigo, for failing to get their players' money, and WESG for failing to find a way of paying them in a reasonable time frame. Regardless, it'll be interesting to see how this story unfolds over the coming🌳 weeks.
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