As you can probably imagine there are legal issues that need to be taken care of when a partner goes under, like in this case with Own3d shutting down. I can't go into specifics of the contract here but a situation arose that delayed the delivery of the prizes.

You will get the prizes, and to make sure I insult your intelligence , we are working on it. Expect more information soon.

As an added note, even though we do not plan on making payment delays a habit, it normally takes between 1-3 months for prizes to be paid out in most online tournaments. And that is when no difficulties or problems arise. Of course we aim to do better than that, and that was our intention in this case but as is clear, difficulties arose and problems popped up.

In all seriousness I would wager that the prize money was actually supposed to come from OwnTV, or whatever their name was. Now CCP is doing their best to hold up another companies end of the bargain, as that other company no longer exists.

I know that the guys in first and maybe even the ones in second would much rather have cash than a plex prize alternate...... however if actual cash is too difficult to give out, then I would be just fine with a plex alternate 8).

But yeah I guess they are trying to work with own, to get everyone their money....

Sorry but this is shocking on CCPs behalf. If you are going to have a prize coming from a sponsor, that is not put into holding before the event then you seriously need to do some better due diligence. If they have bad debt thats gone well past a year then it's pretty obvious they are in no good shape. In fairness their service and product was pretty terrible anyway, so it's not surprise.

Shame for the prize winners though.

I only got my PLEX prize from the NEO after e-mailing CCP Dolan 2 times. That was about 2 months ago. You should try this instead of continuously bumping this thread to no effect.