The CranK Fan Club - Page 12

On October 15 2012 12:43 TotalBiscuit wrote:
This seems as good a place as any to post this, since we don't have a site to post it on yet.

Axiom regrettably announces that CranK will be withdrawing from the remainder of the MLG MvP tournament for health reasons. CranK has suffered issues with his neck for quite some time, which we were aware of prior to signing him as a player and are doing our best to assist him with his treatment. CranK is receiving regular physiotherapy in order to treat his condition. He will be taking two weeks of recuperation on the advice of his doctor. Axiom would like to apologize to the fans who were looking forward to seeing CranK play and to MLG for disrupting their tournament by forfeiting matches. Obviously for us it is a disappointment because CranK was #1 in the Korean bracket along with MC and had a very good chance of making the play-offs, but we must put the health of our player first and ensure his well-being. He assures us that he will be well prepared for his MLG Dallas, Lonestar Clash and IPL 5 appearances in November and we wish him all the best. His lack of participation in the play-off bracket (which gives the possibility of flights and seeding into pool play at the Fall championship) will not affect his attendance at MLG Dallas.

Thank you.

Hey folks,
So we fucked up. We were under the impression CranK wasn't supposed to play until tomorrow. The schedule listed "possible losers rounds", but did not provide specifics. There is no online resource to check specific matches, basically you have to rely on a board in the venue. With large gaps and insufficent practice machines available for players, this results in some players going back to the hotel rather than hanging around for potentially hours waiting to see if they have another match that day.
We made the mistake of not checking the board, instead relying on hear-say. This was really stupid, a rookie mistake and we should have known better. CranK started playing at 10am today but was scheduled for losers bracket round 2, and potentially 3 and 4 tonight at 9pm, 10pm and 11pm. It is standard practice for MLG to play Championship Sunday games on Saturday evening to clear some of the bracket prior to Sunday itself so the finals don't run too late. The schedule was behind somewhat though not by much. While we feel MLG could do a better job of communicating with players and providing them the resources necessary to know when they're playing (such as text message notifications or an online system), this is not MLGs fault, it's Axioms. We were responsible for making sure he was at his match at the right time and we failed in that responsibility. MLG went out of their way to try and accomodate us but CranK was back at the hotel asleep, since he had been awake since 2am Saturday morning. He was not able to wake up, get back to the venue and play potentially 3 more BO3s against world class players.
His neck condition has nothing to do with this forfeit. He's not in the best shape, he hasn't been able to practice much prior to MLG due to manditory military service (which lasted several days), his sisters wedding (6 hours away from Seoul by train) and the drama of the last few weeks and attacks by Korean anti-fans have kept him off the internet for the most part. We feel he performed well regardless of this lack of practice and he is going to have plenty of opportunity to prepare for Lonestar Clash 2 in weeks time since he will be staying in the TeSPA house to practice and ready himself.
Ultimate this is managements responsibility and we fucked up. We are sorry, we let down the fans, caused problems for MLG and ultimately, failed in our duty of care to our player. We sincerely apologise and will do our best to make sure this never happens again. This is not MLGs fault or CranKs, the buck stops here.