Answering Questions:
Prize pool is filled from tournament entry fees. If each person paid say, 5 euro to enter then 3 euro of that would go to pool and 2 would go to help run servers (IRL this would be called a venue fee)
For everyone who said it was too frequent: The point of a bi weekly tournament is not large numbers but rather consistency. If you can show that you have consistency in a certain event, eventually more people will join, especially if its not required you have to join every tournament and people know its happening.
For
2plus2is5: This is not a form of online gambling because it is entirely
skill based. I really don't think there's anything in this entire game that doesn't require skill.
Also some other things I forgot to mention:
Bracket will not be done with challonge for these tournaments, I will use smash.gg instead. This site also lets me do seeding, people can register themselves, and they can pay into the tournament.
I'm currently working on a
not broken good list of maps and a standard ruleset for each format. I might go throw that on ZKwiki when done.