Last year the Antwerp eSports festival was one of the largest and most competitive LANs for Call of Duty 4 as well as a largley succesful tournament for Enemy Territory. With over 15,000 euros in prize money amongst the games it managed to attract most of the large names in each respective game.

Sadly the same couldn't be said for the CS:S side of the event as the tournament had to be cancelled due to a lack of interest from the CSS community. This year however, there is to be no tournament for any game as the organisers have announced they will not be holding the event in 2011.

With events happening in both 2008 and 2010 with large success, it was thought that AEF would become an annual event to be marked down on everyone's calendars for years to come. Unfortunately that is not the case due to to some logistical problems, however the organisers have assured us that there should still be an event happening next year. They have also announced they may hold a smaller event later in the year yet details are yet to be released.

Steven Leunens from Gamevibes said the following to tek-9.org:

To be honest we were very close to organizing an AEF in 2011 and even had extensive support from the City of Antwerp to help promote the event. However, due to problems with the tournament PC's and some other minor factors we are unable to confirm the event. With the timing in mind (just 1,5 month to the event) we had to make a decision and either take a huge risk or cancel the event. Because we love this community and we want to keep doing these events we didn't want to risk everything and thus the decision came to cancel the event. We want to uphold the quality of our events and we like to think we have continiously set the standard higher for events. Hosting this edition would not only be a big financial risk, it would also jeopardize the reputation the Antwerp eSports Festival has built up.

We have every intention of hosting more events, including large Call of Duty events, and the Antwerp eSports Festival will be back in 2012, since it is very unlikely we will face the same logistical problems as this year. We might also be hosting a smaller event later in the year but more on that will be released if and when we can announce it.

If you have any other questions about this, I'm willing to answer all questions via Twitter: twitter.com/stevenleunens