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Why I asked Seither to play on Aus and not SEA.
 

Okay.. so Freedom thinks we are BM arseholes that wanted an advantage to win at any cost...

This doesn't sit with me so I thought I would put my thoughts to a brief blog.

The past two or three WCS qualifiers or ESL monthly cups fray guys have complained after the tournament privately to me how disappointed they felt after losing on SEA server partially due to ping issues. This disappointment continued during the Ro16 yesterday as seither lost to ender while dealing with 250+ ping plus spikes. Verse a player such as enderr who is known for scrappy games and technical micro demanding play, this is especially a disadvantage.

Now, I have a heap of respect for PsiStorm and Enderr, such a solid player at the top of the scene for a very long time. None of my motive to tell seither to play on AUS had anything to do with getting an advantage for seither or anything against ender. As a manager, my task is to support my team and ensure they have the best opportunity to succeed. The admins had stated previously;
So following those instructions to ensure Seither had the best opportunity to succeed I told Seither he should play on AUS.

For those of you that follow other eSports titles in Australia you'd be aware of frequent CS:GO qualifiers in which players are forced to play on various Asian servers to attend the SEA qualifier. No one ever complains about this, they just have to deal with it if they want good ping. Now this is an ANZ qualifier, played on Australian server.. If SEA players want good ping, fly over to Sydney or convince the admins to implement a fair rule.

Seither even offered to play 2 games from the Bo3 on the SEA server and 1 on AUS. Ender declined.

No one wants the disadvantage, I'm sorry it all turned out this way.