@dippa and timber.
If citizenship is going to be used as the benchmark as to who is eligible, that's fine and I accept that. If its only avaliable to SEA born players say that. If its only avaliable to players living in a SEA country, that's fine, say that. My point is that there needs to be a clear, open and consistent approach and ruleset for eligibility.
To show that I'm not just trying to be a dick about it, here is an example of a ruleset I think would be fair for eligibility....
- Must be currently residing in a SEA country
OR
- Must have a minimum or 25 ladder games each season on the SEA server under their unique SEA account over the last two seasons.
- Must have been a member of the clan for at least three months before the announcement of SEACL#2, or for all future SEACL's been a member before the commencement of the previous season I.e to be eligible for SEACL 3 you must have joined your clan before SEACL 2 started.
I think these requirements are more than fair, but I'd be interested in the community opinion. I also think they would be effective enough at preventing 'ring ins' specifically bought in for only one tournament.
You're going down the right path. This is the same problem that cropped up with the FadeEvetS hacking situation in that there isn't a clear policy as to what constitutes eligibility.
I don't think setting an amount of "games" could work; anything under 100-150 is really quite easy to hit for mercenaries. But like I said, this is a good starting point.
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