CSPPA intends to sue the organizers of the FLASHPOINT series

According to the VaKarM portal, the Professional Players Union (CSPPA) will sue the organizers of the FLASHPOINT series for not paying hundreds of thousands of dollars promised to players annually.

The CSPPA, the professional players' union, is currently considering taking legal action against B Site, the parent company of FLASHPOINT. The main subject of the proceedings should be the financial part of the activities of the organizers, who owe the players several hundred thousand dollars.

This is probably more a matter of principle than a real financial issue for the CSPPA, but it could still be the final blow to a project that was almost stillborn.

Remarkably, there is no public information on the network about the percentage that was guaranteed to each participant in the tournament series. Looking at 2020, each player was supposed to receive a portion of the $457,500 allocated to them—about $11,000 each.

The CSPAA is currently in the process of collecting player signatures, which will help bring a more substantial collective complaint to court.

The tournament series, created at the beginning of 2020, was preparing to become a response to the rapid expansion of ESL and BLAST. Building the foundation for the franchise ecosystem, the organizers enlisted the support of eight clubs: c0ntact Gaming, Cloud9, Dignitas, Team Envy, FunPlus Phoenix, Gen.G Esports, MAD Lions and MIBR.

Currently, only two of the eight co-founding organizations of FLASHPOINT have not left the discipline - Cloud9 and MIBR. At the same time, most of them left CS:GO more than a year ago, while Dignitas resigned quite recently.

As a result, in two years, FLASHPOINT organized only three full-fledged championships, one of which fell on the RMR tournament, separating itself from the general logic of the competition.

The winner of FLASHPOINT 1 was the MAD Lions team, as well as the second season was left for Virtus.pro. However, the Los Angeles studio, built specifically for the championships, has been inactive for the past two years.

At the same time, FLASHPOINT cost each of the participating teams $ 2 million, which almost disappeared. Cloud9, c0ntact Gaming, Dignitas, Team Envy, Gen.G Esports, MAD Lions, MIBR, and FunPlus Phoenix have all invested $16 million up front in the league and have not seen a return.