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In the weekend of 20-21 October, Darth and me played with soem good dutch friends at the WorldCyberGames Benelux. We easily beat clan TRCC in the final. We were very happy to have won a trip to Korea, but since TRCC complained to the organisation, a dodgy agreement was made. Read the following email for more information:
Dear Gerrit,
We are overjoyed with winning the WCG Benelux Qualifier past weekend. Now we are tje lucky ones to represent the Benelux at the Grand-Final in soeul (Korea). There is only one problem we are facing.
We have investigated the rules afterwards to make sure all options are available to us. We have come to the following conclusion: (We also have made a screenshot of this.)
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http://www.worldcybergames.nl/1stwcg/counter_rules.asp
Each team is comprised of five players and one extra player may be registered as a potential substitute. If any player that has not been previously registered with the WCGOC participate in the competition, the corresponding team shall automatically be disqualified.
<> This rule states that when all six players are signed up for the WCGOC qualifier (which Mc had), it is allowed to have one substitue. We subsistuted one player for another, all registered in the WCGOC. This would mean that we are still happy with the player change you approved, but that it has been totally according the book, and indicates no exception has been made at all. All players were registered with the WCGOC. Six in total. Five plus one substitute.
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For the WCG Grand Final, only five players per team may attend and participate in the competition
<> This rule indicates the allowance of players to go to the World Cyber Games Grand Final in Korea. Only five players can go to and play at the WCG Korea Grand finals
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I think the protest TRCC made is understandable. And the step you took by offering us a deal _at that time_ is aswell. But looking back, elaborating on the rules, it can be clearly concluded that the restriction is not fair since none of the rules were broken. The agreement we orally made by taking the five players that have played the finals to Korea to play in the World Cyber Games Grand Final therefore does not count.
The reason why we are taking this effort is because we want all options free to choose players of our team to go to the World Cyber Games Grand Final in Korea. There should not be any restriction. We feel that one of those options has been taken away from us by unclear processing of the rules that were told to us on the World Cyber Games Benelux Qualifier. We also want to avoid any bad stories that might take place and can harm our good name and will.
We would like the email conversation in english since it could be needed to contact the World Cyber Games Grand Final Korea organisors about this, and therefore would be easier to explain.
Our team looks back at weekend in two ways. One way the small clash we had with TRCC and the "player change" affair. And the other way on a succesfull weekend with great performance and competition, which we thank you and the organisation for.
I hope you can only confirm the explanation i have given above, from my point of view it is well based with the World Cyber Games' rules as example .
We are looking forward to a reply and thank you for the taken effort.
Best Regards,
F. van Workum / oppie
Since Darth and I will be playing with 4K at the CPL Dallas, the four Mystery Clan guys, the dutch LAN team, can not go to korea. If the Worldcybergame organisation, lead by Gerrit and Benny, would have sticked to the rules on their own site this would not have happened. Darth would have gone to Korea and oppie to Dallas. Everybody would be happy then. The statement of the WCG "Yes the rules are on the official WCG site, but we have changed more of them ourselves" seems to be the only ground their point is based on.
All we can do is thank clan TRCC (for complaining about a violation of rules that was not even made) and ofcourse Benny and Gerrit, the two main brains that decided to make personal versions of the rules and setting us a limit 15 minutes before the final. it might be worth to mention that clan TRCC is sponsored by Gameparty, that is on one site a good organisation of many good volunteers and nice ppl, but on the other side also was strongly related with the WordCyberGames and its two main people "Benny" and "Gerrit.
If TRCC are going to Korea, we wish them good luck and hope they can make Holland proud and will perform a bit better then they did on their recent LAN events.
Darth and oppie...
~fat
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