EPTOn October 05 2012 06:43 Liquid`Nazgul wrote:
As an organization we haven't found ourselves to be in agreement with the statements Tyler made about GSL.
I'll explain a little bit of how scheduling usually works. Online tournaments that work with replays give the teams and players a lot of freedom in scheduling matches. This is the case for EGMC, IPLTL, NASL (nowadays) and now for this GSL tournament as well. This is desirable from a player and team perspective so that you can account for conflicting schedules and timezones. Scheduling is an incredibly complicated job and for this reason most teams have a person in their organization who is responsible for this. In our organization that is Robin. He will know the player schedules best, and this way there will be little pressure on the player to take care of something as bothersome as scheduling. Matches have deadlines before which replays have to be sent back, and tournaments are not involved in the scheduling between the two parties.
What happened was more of an internal issue between Robin and Tyler. His match was supposed to be played in the span of a week, something we as an organization, as well Tyler were aware of. Robin normally reaches out to the players proactively to schedule everything. For this match he unfortunately talked to Tyler when there were four days of the week left, and it turned out Tyler was not able to play at all on those dates. We took this to the organizer and informed them that we couldn't play the matches in the timeframe, with a request to play them after, as well as the note that if that wasn't possible we would have to be replaced. After this they opted to replace Tyler with someone else.
It's mostly an unfortunate series of events where a small mistake turned into a bigger issue than it should have been, and we take full responsibility for the situation.
As an organization we haven't found ourselves to be in agreement with the statements Tyler made about GSL.
I'll explain a little bit of how scheduling usually works. Online tournaments that work with replays give the teams and players a lot of freedom in scheduling matches. This is the case for EGMC, IPLTL, NASL (nowadays) and now for this GSL tournament as well. This is desirable from a player and team perspective so that you can account for conflicting schedules and timezones. Scheduling is an incredibly complicated job and for this reason most teams have a person in their organization who is responsible for this. In our organization that is Robin. He will know the player schedules best, and this way there will be little pressure on the player to take care of something as bothersome as scheduling. Matches have deadlines before which replays have to be sent back, and tournaments are not involved in the scheduling between the two parties.
What happened was more of an internal issue between Robin and Tyler. His match was supposed to be played in the span of a week, something we as an organization, as well Tyler were aware of. Robin normally reaches out to the players proactively to schedule everything. For this match he unfortunately talked to Tyler when there were four days of the week left, and it turned out Tyler was not able to play at all on those dates. We took this to the organizer and informed them that we couldn't play the matches in the timeframe, with a request to play them after, as well as the note that if that wasn't possible we would have to be replaced. After this they opted to replace Tyler with someone else.
It's mostly an unfortunate series of events where a small mistake turned into a bigger issue than it should have been, and we take full responsibility for the situation.
Unfortunate. But nice to see you giving some clarification on this particular issue. Hope the drama (from all sides) will calm down now.
NonY fighting!~
