The Chinese organisers are already crowdfunding to make a LAN final happen and have asked us, the international community that loves this game, if we can help contribute towards this special LAN event as well.
The matches will be played in a lag free environment, where we can see the best performances of these great players. We will also bring you exclusive interviews from the LAN itself with the players and streamers.
Do you want the best players of the best nations to play the final 4 matches of SY Nations Cup 2017 in the best possible circumstance?
If you wish to donate to make a LAN final of SY Nations Cup 2017 happen, use the donate button below. You can add a message to the donation, please specify your nickname in the donation so we can add it to this post. This can be done anonymously as well of course!
Details:
All money we raise will contribute towards the plane tickets of the players of the top 4 teams that will be invited. Since the sum that is needed is hard to determine at this stage, we can only give a rough estimate of about 15,000 - 20,000 USD for all the plane tickets alone. Therefore Chinese organisers are looking for alternative ways to contribute to the funds as well.
If you take a look at the top 8 that will participate in the knockout stage it nearly impossible to predict the teams that will make the top 4 and estimate the costs of the flights based on those prediction, it can make a huge difference in costs if a team like Vietnam or two Chinese teams make instead of two Brazilians teams.
On top of this there will be more costs for accommodation, venue, streaming crew etc. but the money will only be used for the plane tickets for the players.
The proposed timeframe for the LAN final is from Friday 13th October until Wednesday 18th October. The venue in Xiamen China will be accessible for the main public.
The PayPal is currently owned by the tournament admins, me and robo. No one else has access to it and we will transfer all the funds that were raised for the LAN to the players, we have no problem with sharing this information publicly when the transfers have been made. robo and myself have no link to Voobly whatsoever, apart from using the platform to play or spectate the game.
There is a really small chance the LAN will not happen, if that's the case all money donated will be refunded to the rightful owners. All money will be held in the PayPal managed by the tournament admins until everything is 100% confirmed.
Donations:
- (_blank) Anonymous - $ 3,000
- nimanoe - $ 20
- robo - $ 500
- (_blank) Anonymous - $ 25
- (_blank) Anonymous - $ 5
- (_blank) dogwelder - $ 10
- (_blank) Anonymous - $ 20
- (_blank) Anonymous - $ 50
- pTo4 - $ 10
- MrHect - $ 5
- iViktorius - $ 50