Million Dollar Tourney Suspended

Once touted as the largest prize in video game history, the MMORPG Risk Your Life: Path of the Emperor has had to cancel their $1,000,000 tournament. "After several weeks of skill-based Tournament play, the Company discovered a large amount of unfair tournament activity, and non-compliance with Tournament rules and regulations in the form of fraudulent tournament play. Fraudulent Tournament play has undermined the original plan and intent of the Tournament, as well as its inherent fairness and integrity." MMORPG.com has a brief interview with Mark Politi of Planetwide Games about the decision. I think it will be quite a while before online games are secure enough to offer a prize that large without having cheats and hackers making a mockery of the rules.