It's not a victory for e-sports dumbest boycott but it has been declared today that ESWC will be cancelling the registration fees to ensure a solid turnout at the 2011 event.

It had been said that some teams were struggling to come up with the fees to register in time. However, it's clear that teams now wanting to attend the event will be doing so through more traditional means and teams that have had invites extended, as well as those attending through their own means, will be able to ignore any fees associated with registration.

The Statement by Jean-Marie Coutant, president of the ESWC organising committee, read:

The ESWC 2011 will see the renewal of the project. We would like to organise a genuine festival of electronic sports, bringing people together, where everyone has a place: both the major professional teams and their challengers from every country in the world.

To this end, I have decided to cancel the registration fees of the open registration process for players and teams, that lasts until the end of September.

Today we acknowledge that we have quickly assessed the ability of players, teams and their sponsors to support the required fees to participate to such major world-class tournament.

Organising an event such as the ESWC is very costly. The production costs are still, today, an investment for the upcoming years, as we believe in the future of on-line games and video game competitions. We will now focus our efforts on attracting new partners to the project and we are counting on your support to succeed.

Hopefully this news will now ensure more teams make the decision to attend and will put the ESWC event back on track to being one of the best on the e-sports calendar.