Tournament organizers have to realise players can't get money for travel as easy as ringing somebody and yelling for money. This lack of notice and information for what is an invitational tournament and expecting a good response is laughable.
We work with what we have to work with, at the end of the day it is another nice cash prize tournament for the Australian StarCraft 2 tournament - of which takes alot of hard work to organise, prep, plan, and convince a lovely company to commit to.
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