I just read on readmore.de, that eswc has money problems and the players might never see their price money. Also they pissed off the sponsors like Peugeot, because they promised more than 50k visitors and in the end there were only about 3k.

Source:

http://www.team-aaa.com/news-16610-0-1-eswc_e...tures.html

Would be nice if someone who is able to speak french can witness this and probably give some more hints.