Discussion of CIS-2015 details

It's not about the large prize pool, but about the attitude towards the tournament itself.
Very often, people lose interest in the tournament almost immediately because they go off to play poker, get drunk, hang out in bars, and so on. I see increasing the entry fee as a way to add more responsibility to the tournament itself.

Artem, you should make it a double elimination tournament (and consequently, a best-of-three final), otherwise there's a chance of being eliminated without a chance to win first place after just one loss to a top player. And immediately, there's a high chance that players of average skill simply won't participate in a tournament where they don't think they have a chance to win a prize (from their point of view). As a result, that very group of players who lost interest and went to drink, but contributed money to the prize pool and the conference room rental, simply won't show up, and everyone will be paying for it with just 5 people who plan to dominate the CIS region.