Millionare Chess Tournament in Las Vegas at October 2014

Is there a list of winners anywhere.  I know Wesley So won it, but what about the class prizes?

Oh definitely! Go here - http://millionairechess.com/the_standings/

Now click on each of the section links. For example Under 1400 standings are at -

http://millionairechess.com/the_standings/standings-u1400/

For the avoidance of any doubt, the winners of each section have not been published. The website has basically been abandoned since the event finished, and was pretty badly maintained even before that, seeing as the registration link is still active.

Unfortunately, the section results don't indicate how players did in the Monday playoffs.  Even at the venue, my son and I couldn't find the Monday results for the lower sections though we looked high and low.  That's something they should work on improving next year.

I'm not seeing the registration link.

Also, take a look at the round 8 open section standings.  That's not the way things were.

I just went to the Millionaire Chess home page.  The registration link is there and I was able to add a registration to my cart.

Nevermind.  I see it now.

There have been two news items added after the tournament ended.  A link to the prizes awarded and a link to the standings.  Neither work.  They were probably pre-programed and not completed.  

It does look like the site has been abandoned.  No hype about how great the tournament was.  No promotion of next year's event, etc.

There's an awful lot of nitipicking going on.  No event, not even a FIDE World Championship or World Cup, could withstand such scrutiny.

And though the MCO website leaves something to be desired, very few events have a website as extensive as the MCO's.  In fact, I can't think of one offhand that does.

Given the way this tournament was hyped, the tournament's public face should not provide so much opportunity for nitpicking.

I followed the FIDE world Championship online last year, and they most definitely published the results. That's really the bare minimum for making a website about a tournament - you publish the results and give some detail about what happened at the event. It's unforgiveable not to publish them even for a first time tournament. Slow website, the odd dead link is understandable, giving no indication of who went away with the major prizes is not.

At this point the website bears all the hallmarks of an event that the sponsor (Amy Lee) has decided to cut their losses with and never bother with again.

The website should've been updated and the ratings should've been sent to USCF.  Neither has been done yet and I think it's reasonable to say that should be improved.

I went to the tournament, and it was a very well run and enjoyable chess event. The atmosphere for a tournament was top notch, and was better than the World Open by far. I heard Ashley in a conversation say that they will definitely be running it again next year. I hope he is correct. RR 

I think you're reading too much into this.  They may be recuperating from what must have been an exhausting weekend...probably an exhausting few weeks or months.  Some tournaments post results to the USCF the same evening, some wait a few days, others take a week or more.

They have however posted a bunch of pictures from the event online for tournament participants as well as follow-up email asking for feedback.  Don't know if those pictures are publicly accessible however.

Given this even was supposedly an investment and all about PR for the next one, I don't buy the "taking a rest" explanation. Timing is crucial in PR, you have to strike while the iron is hot. Every hour that passes this event gets forgotten by more and more people and not posting up the aftermath and "glory" of the event for all to see at the first possible opportunity is a huge blunder (if you'll pardon the pun!). Posting up the details a week later is a waste of time as nobody will care about MC anymore. I don't think the sponsor is that naive, either they've got massive technical issues preventing them from updating the website or she's simply decided to cut her losses.

They could even be checking the bona fides of the winners to identify cheaters before they announce officially.  But that's total speculation on my part.

I don't think the general chessplaying public, let alone the mass media, cares about who won the U2200 prize let alone the U1400.

The mass media doesn't care about chess at all, isn't the point of the whole MC "the next level" mantra that they will bring chess to the masses and give them a reason to be interested in it? If you ignore all the non-GMs then it's just another elite tournament that will attract neither the players nor the sponsors to make the big-money format viable.

In any case they haven't even made it clear who even won the open section, maybe you can work it out trawling through the various links but the least you'd expect is an article on the home page with Wesley So's smiling face on it...

The media cares enough to write about the event.  The Huffington Post, BBC News, Wired, and the Las Vegas Sun have all done articles on the MCO in the last couple of days.

As I mentioned in the other thread, the Huffington Post mention is big since they get more eyeballs online than the CNN, NY Times, or Fox News sites.

At any rate, who knows what's going on with the MCO web site?  They could and perhaps should be doing a better job of keeping it updated.  However, to conclude from that that the event is doomed is a real stretch.