We hope you weren’t looking forward to participating in Frontier’s $100,000 CQC Elite Dangerous tournament because, well, it isn’t running anymore. Frontier previously announced that they would be hosting a tournament at the end of 2016, but this has changed as a result of features to Elite Dangerous being delayed throughout the year.
“In order to run the tournament we wanted to bring in a number of specific features which would allow us to run the event in the way we had planned,” said Frontier in their latest blog post. “However, as you may remember the 2.1 update required a little longer in development as we focused on game improving features that went through the core game play experience and brought our largest Elite Dangerous update to date.”
”What that means is that we won’t able to run the CQC tournament as we had initially conceived. We will be having a contest with a prize fund at a future date. For those of you who were excited for a CQC tournament this year, I’m delighted to say that we won’t be leaving you disappointed. We’re very glad to be able to confirm that we will be launching our first ever in game PVP tournament, The Icarus Cup.”
Frontier have said they plan on hosting another tournament with a prize fund at a future date, though the concern comes from the fact that they didn’t explicitly state if it will be the same $100,000. No matter what the developers decide to include in their prize pool, unless it matches the $100,000 that they initially promised, fans will ultimately end up disappointed.
