On August 14 2016 07:39 DucK- wrote:
Era was absent for so long, I believe since January when aui stood in for him in Vegas. His team gave him so much time to return, but he never did return. Team finally decided they can't carry on waiting any longer and decided to complete and train with xcalibur, but era decided hey nope I'm entitled to the spot.

He actually was entitled to the spot, the invite was for the 5 players, his invitation cannot be revoked. The substitute rule was put into place recently to rectify the situation, but at the time the only fair thing to do was to let Era play since fnatic qualified based on their results with Era not xcalibur.

the thing is, fnatic hat a legitimate reason to not play with era. was just shitty ruling by valve to stick to their rules without understanding what they are for.

rules are the rules though, at the time if valve made an exception then you'd have all sorts of teams trying to look to stealth kick players and pick up last minute additions or poaching players from other teams

they already made an exception for fear.

on topic: well they finally got a dc video together!

Fear wasn't trying to play though was he? IIRC fear had basically accepted he couldn't play. Era on the hand wanted to play with his team. If fear actually wanted to play for eg Valve would have forced eg to let him play as well.

no but there was no rule how to handle replacements. for all we know they could have not invited eg because mason was not on the invite list.
in the end rules are there for a reason though and dont stand on its own. the roster stability rule is to protect the players (all of them) and with valves terrible ruling on this they killed chances of the team (because no way they would perform after that) and destroyed eras career (because no way any decent team would take him after this). valves ruling did the opposite of what it was supposed to do, it did not protect anyone but harmed everyone involved. happens when you do rules without reason.

that is actually incredibly false.

eg had played enough tournaments with mason to still qualify with him as their 5th.

xcalibur and fnatic had not played enough, therefore that's why the decision was made

I'm pretty sure invites had gone out before xcalibur first stood in for fnatic as well

toemn

Germany915 Posts

August 13 2016 23:09 GMT

#2284

I don't want this TI to end. :'/

hfglgg

Germany5372 Posts

August 13 2016 23:10 GMT

#2285

On August 14 2016 08:08 superstartran wrote:

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On August 14 2016 07:58 hfglgg wrote:

On August 14 2016 07:53 CA Infraction wrote:

On August 14 2016 07:51 hfglgg wrote:

On August 14 2016 07:48 superstartran wrote:

On August 14 2016 07:47 hfglgg wrote:

On August 14 2016 07:45 superstartran wrote:

the thing is, fnatic hat a legitimate reason to not play with era. was just shitty ruling by valve to stick to their rules without understanding what they are for.

they already made an exception for fear.

on topic: well they finally got a dc video together!

i didnt know there was a threshold of tournaments you need to play. lmao
but you didnt even get my point, my point is that valve destroyed the career of the very player their rule should have protected. was stupid, valve learned by introducing substitutes for the next ti. sometimes they just need someone with half a brain to go over their selfrightous rulings.

shad2810

Malaysia2682 Posts

August 13 2016 23:10 GMT

#2286

TI 1 - 3-1
TI 2 - 3-1
TI 3 - 3-2
TI 4 - 3-1
TI 5 - 3-1

TI 6 - 3-0 or 3-2 incoming