KODE5
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KODE5
Company Information
Focus:
Professional Gaming League
Founded:
2003
Defunct:
2009
Location:
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About[edit]
KODE5 is an international esports competition. The first edition in 2006 features Counter-Strike 1.6, Warcraft III and Quake 4. The final event was held in Beijing with a total prize pool of $70,000.
In the second KODE5 event in 2008, Counter-Strike 1.6 and Warcraft III were played, and the venue for the Grand Finals was Moscow. The prize money for these two competitions remained the same, the total prize pool landed on $40,000. In the KODE5 Finals 2009, again in Moscow, Counter-Strike 1.6 was in the single competition with a prize pool of $40,000 USD. The 2010 edition also featured a similar prize pool of $40,000 and was held in Peru.
Unfortunately, the organizers stopped paying out prizes to teams since 2008. This lead to a statement in 2012 from the managers and players behind fnatic, SK Gaming, mTw and Frag eXecutors stating that the organizers owed them over $75,000 USD with further investigation showed that the total amount of unpaid prizes owed by KODE5 to winning teams as well as outstanding money to organizers of qualifiers and other companies had exceeded $100,000. [1]
Events[edit]
| Event | Date | Prize Pool |  1st |  2nd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KODE5 2010 | 2010-12-03 to 2010-12-05 | $40,000 |  CNB e-Sports Club |  Wild Ineters |
| KODE5 2009 | 2009-05-09 to 2009-05-10 | $40,000 |  Fnatic |   SK Gaming |
| KODE5 2008 | 2008-05-10 to 2008-05-11 | $40,000 |   mTw | Fnatic |
| KODE5 2006 | 2006-09-28 to 2006-09-29 | $40,000 |   Ninjas in Pyjamas |  wNv Teamwork |
| ACON5 | 2005-06-04 to 2005-06-06 | $35,000 |  Virtus.pro |  Bizounours |
- Note: KODE5 2007 were in fact held later in 2008 and is as such often unofficially dubbed KODE5 2008. [2]
References[edit]
- ↑ Nix0n (2012-02-07). "KODE5 prizes unpaid since 2008". HLTV.
- ↑ Greed. "mJe and mTw.dk grab the KODE5 CS title". SK Gaming. Retrieved June 18, 2015.