Rings Disgraced - Page 3

Frozgard
11-26-2005, 06:52 PM
Some of you may have followed the discussions that arose from the fact that one of the players in WCG apparently had never played a game of Warcraft 3 in his life. This person was representing Luxembourg and was playing under the country's nickname. Here is a bit of information that I managed to glean from forums about gaming in Luxembourg.

First of all, a non-profit organisation called LESF (http://www.lesf.lu/) ( Luxembourg Electronic Sports Federation) contacted the WCG organisers to hold a national qualifier in Luxembourg. By default, only one spot was open for the country, with the possibility of having more spots at the national organiser's expense. Since LESF is pretty new and sponsorship for gaming is hard to come by, they planned to send only one player to Singapour. However, apparently they didn't know which game the spot was for. So they held off organising a qualifier until they would know which game it would be for. Also, they didn't talk about the spot nor the possibility that one gamer may be able to represent the country in the international finals. So nobody except the few organisers knew what was going on at the time.

Then, three days before the WCG Finals were about to start, they recieved confirmation that the spot was in fact for Warcraft III. Now, the organisers didn't publicise this either but in a hurry tried to contact Warcraft 3 players they knew. From what I saw, only a few were contacted and out of these nobody could attend because of the short timeframe and school / work commitments. So in the end they asked around if anybody could go and finally they found this Peter Freitag guy. He had indeed not played any Warcraft before and the only reason he was sent was to not void the ticket.

I'll try and get an official statement from LESF and translate this into English if necessary. The blame lies with them and their inactivity and failure to have any communication at all about the issues they were facing or at least contacting the wider LAN community in Luxembourg. It's a sad story of an inefficient organisation, but at least there doesn't seem to have been a willingness to commit fraud against the War3 community in Luxembourg.

Personnally I'm quite disappointed by the end result and by this failure. I hope the wider Warcraft community will realise that this person's skill doesn't represent the best skill of Warcraft 3 in Luxembourg in any way and that we, the Warcraft 3 players from Luxembourg are the ones who have been really hurt by this turn of events.

As final words, I would like to thank the people who have helped me track down the information I needed to find and all the people who have lent moral support. We all want a fair and square WCG, where players deserve to be there and show the best level their country has to offer. And I hope that this incident will stay isolated, but will still serve as a reminder to those who organise, follow the scene and play Warcraft III.

Frozgard