iG.Jim disqualified from IEM - Jim and MacSed possibly fai…

On July 30 2013 07:44 Nerski wrote:
The WCS should really start thinking of requiring you have a visa if your not in that region to participate to end all these visa debacles.

On July 30 2013 18:23 digmouse wrote:
Some news regarding their second visa application: the visa officials took away their invitation and passport and told them since they have denial records they must go through a deeper checking process.

On July 30 2013 09:55 Traceback wrote:

You obviously don't understand visas very well.

On July 30 2013 18:23 digmouse wrote:
Some news regarding their second visa application: the visa officials took away their invitation and passport and told them since they have denial records they must go through a deeper checking process.

On July 31 2013 01:54 JustPassingBy wrote:


Is that a good or a bad thing?


Either way, Blizzard should've done either:

a) tell the Chinese scene to go f**k itself (at least this is honest)
b) speak to the US government and help the chinese players to get a VISA (preferred solution by me)
c) move WCS NA to another country of NA with less tight visa regulations (also nice)


But the most ideal solution would be to give SEA + China an own WCS region.

On July 31 2013 01:54 JustPassingBy wrote:


Is that a good or a bad thing?


Either way, Blizzard should've done either:

a) tell the Chinese scene to go f**k itself (at least this is honest)
b) speak to the US government and help the chinese players to get a VISA (preferred solution by me)
c) move WCS NA to another country of NA with less tight visa regulations (also nice)


But the most ideal solution would be to give SEA + China an own WCS region.

On July 31 2013 02:07 Plansix wrote:

I don't think they are going to move an event to another country just because of two players. Blizzcon is happening in the US and there is nothing short of an earthquake that is gonig to change that.

And it has been said may times before, the USCIS could give two shits about Blizzard and what they want. They may take the call, but at the end of the day the USCIS is going to do what they do and follow the laws that govern them and rules they have in place. And I wouldn't doubt that the USCIS is going to call Blizzard to confirm the invitation is valid and get more information.

On July 31 2013 02:43 Cattlecruiser wrote:

I guess you never traveled out of your own hemisphere.

On July 31 2013 01:31 Nerski wrote:


I'm not saying it'd be easy to walk in and say 'I might need to go to the USA I need a visa'.

If however, blizzard required it, and did a little work themselves to talk to goverments about allowing visa's for these reasons it'd be possible. Riot has already proven this to be the case allowing pro LoL players to obtain visa's simply on the grounds of being one of their pro players.

I'm not saying this is going to happen, blizzard hasn't shown any signs of doing this. Ideally though this would be the case. I suppose I could have been more specific in stating the comment I did.

On August 01 2013 18:22 NovemberstOrm wrote:
GUYS GOOD NEWS:
Macsed got his Visa, Jim is still trying
https://twitter.com/dignitasDreAm/status/362863217514520577

On August 01 2013 20:34 Enders116 wrote:

I feel that Jim needs his visa moreso than macsed... Macsed was able to win HKeSports and qualify for the finals. Jim forfeited his position at IEM Shanghai (more or less) to get his visa denied. On top of this, I feel as though the only results he's produced besides GM rank 1 on ladder would be his all-kill on EG at the Acer Teamstory Cup. He has job security but he needs more than that to tell himself he is a good competitor. Fuzer was GM Rank 1 on NA 6 months ago. Less than a week ago he retired.

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