MGEMikeStarkiefrom london stansted the return flight to gothenberg is £20
from berlin to gothenberg it's £92
from paris to gothenburg it's £78
in total that's £423 for flights after 2 minutes of googling
you're getting $500 at least for 4th place and you're almost certainly gonna place higher than that
this takes the flights down to £100
I know you have to get train tickets from gothenberg to jonkoping and from your respective cities to your airport but come on, £1000 for all of that?
we're not asking for £1000 for all of that? we're asking for £540. You underestimate the cost of trains and peoples access to these cities, schocky doesn't live near berlin, and i know tek at least didn't use to live near paris and used a different airport (idk about bulle & flippy, pretty sure flippy is ages away from paris, which would make flying from there either pretty impossible if the time of the flight is bad or expensive to stay in a hotel overnight while he waits + the long train journery also expensive). For me the flight is £20 from stanstead yeah, but the train & bus to get there will cost around £80 since I live about 4 hours away.
edit: also like dashner said, you're using the same accommodation as we are, which hafficool told me you were contemplating starting a fundraiser to cover, i don't think you should stay on your high horse unless you think living in the same gamer mansion for that weekend will be bearable still
Best thing you can do is give a breakdown of the costs in as much detail as you can. People will be less hesitant to give money if they can see exactly where it's going and that you guys aren't throwing money away on luxuries or even turning a profit.