I'm busy as hell trying to manage the brackets right now, so I'll write something up in a little more detail later on. But here's my immediate thoughts.
SixJax.Major made absolutely no attempt to communicate with me whatsoever. He says I "forced him" into buying an SEA account.
Major asked deL (5 days ago) if he could compete. deL asked me. I said no.
I asked Major why he didn't get in touch with me. He said, "I don't have your char code and deL is useless." I reminded him that he could have easily PM'd me on the TL forums but he said he can't do that. I asked him why and he replied with, "You don't understand, you're stupid."
I'm pretty sure that battle.net has never been the first point of contact for tournament admins in any event.
I'm hosting these events to grow the SEA competitive scene. I see the value in allowing international players to compete in SEA events, however this is not one of them.
This is $500 of my own money. There are no sponsors for this event, it's just me. Therefore I don't really appreciate the huge amount of abuse and community backlash I received for not allowing Major to participate.
I didn't allow GTS (ST_KingKong) to compete because he is not a SEA citizen. He understood.
Major contacted me for the first time this morning. I explained the situation to him. He argued and abused me for 45 minutes. His argument was, "But you let FXO.Tgun play and he's in Korea? That's bias." I explained that FXO.Tgun is an Australian citizen who resides in Sydney, but he said it doesn't matter because he's in Korea right now. He was essentially just trolling me.
After finally giving up on abusing me, he said "Fair enough" and logged out. Then he accidentally traded account information with Gerlan on his live stream.
Major broke the rules by using someone elses account, and Gerlan broke the rules by giving someone his account after he'd been denied participation.
Both players are banned from any future events I'm running. (Future Dox Cups may include a limited number of international participants.)
This is supposed to be a community BUILDING event. This is doing nothing but damaging it. I'll be chasing up SixJax management because I don't like people trying to scam me.
Three hours after being disqualified from the event, Major is STILL doing nothing but sitting in the tournament channel trolling and picking fights.
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