Screenshots are from the official site of the festival serires and the lobby of the tournament.
It is clearly written that the two packages for the Festival Bratislava are ADDED to the prize pool at both of them.they paid only top 2 with the packages.
Scam or not??

It is misleading but technically speaking the language is not precise.

It doesn't say added to the regular prize pool. It just says added, which is an awkward way of saying included. So it's very possible someone who was ESL wrote that. Frankly, I'm rather inclined to go that route because it doesn't make much sense to add a 3.2k bonus onto such a small tourney with so few players. In fact, it's very clearly a satellite.




As it stands the prize pool is still more than double the size of the entries so unless the amount of entries more than doubled there was still overlay


Is it poorly phrased? Absolutely.
Is it a scam? I don't think that qualifies. It more feels like you're upset because you assumed you'd have a softer landing if you didn't finish top 2.