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Foreigner's Union for the Courteous Treatment of Unhappy Players, or FUCTUP for short, is an initiative by the foreign community of amateur and pro players alike to reduce the number of poorly run and poorly scheduled tournaments as well as to reduce the number of issues and conflicts between players and organizers pre- and post- tournament.
Numerous players have suffered from issues such as tournament organizers rescheduling tournaments on short notice, shifting players between groups as well as redrawing groups altogether, and failing to pay their prize pool in a timely manner. These issues as well as many others result in sacrificing players' sleep schedules, physical health, and, in many cases, mental health in order to provide entertainment to the viewers and appease our beloved tournament organizers.
Thus, as a response to these issues and in an attempt to minimize their occurrences, I have created this union.
Players Kane
Huk
Lilbow
TLStuchiu
NinjaBLT
Nathanias
Many more!
Foreigner’s Union for the Courteous Treatment of Unhappy Players
Not only is FUCTUP a union of players, I have also created a system to create consequences for organizers that consistently disappoint us.
-Organizer receives a strike when they start a tournament 10 minutes late. For every 5 minutes thereafter that the tournament is delayed, the organizer shall receive an additional strike.
-Organizer receives a single strike if they reschedule a tournament altogether only if it is done prior to 24 hours when the tournament was scheduled to begin. If the organizer does not provide at least 24 hours notice, they shall receive 2 strikes.
-If any issues arise during the tournament, the organizer shall receive a strike depending on the severity of the issue (This involves redrawing of groups, failing to disqualify any maphackers, and failing to adequately communicate with the player).
-After 5 strikes, the organizer shall be removed from the "Nice" list and instead placed into the "Naughty" list.
-Strikes never expire, but they can be removed from the organizer's record with good behavior and performing good deeds in the community (see Ensuring Equality and Fairness).
Naughty/Nice List
The Why
The purpose of this union is to create a system in which organizers are punished for their repeated incompetence. While I and the other players that are part of this union are saddened that we have had to create such a system, we believe that it is fair and necessary at this point in our somewhat fragile careers.
There have been numerous cases of players sacrificing their well being in order to compensate for an organizer’s incompetency (i.e. Idra). The amount of sleep we have lost and the amount of stress organizers have caused the foreign community is no laughing matter. Some players are unable to buy groceries to last the month because of late payouts from tournament organizers and this is absolutely unacceptable.
Ensuring Equality and Fairness
FUCTUP realizes that the system we are putting in place is a harsh one at times. Therefore, we have created a strike council from neutral members of the community in order to judge whether or not the strikes placed upon organizers are fairly delivered. The council will consist of the following members:
-Aldaris
-Simon Boudreault
-WinterStarcraft
In addition, the members of the council will also decide whether strikes will be removed from an organizer's record depending on the good deeds they have performed in recent times.
Q/A
How do I join FUCTUP?
Retweet this tweet and I will add you to the group:
What if the organizer has a valid reason for his/her incompetency?
That’s what the strike council is in place for, and we believe that they will do a great job of enforcing a strict moral code.
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Canada13379 Posts
The council members really got me LOL
Though i do agree. If the organisers are putting ruleson players those tournaments also need to meet a set of requirements on their end.
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By all means, all people should be held accountable, no matter what role they have in the scene. If there's a meaningful method to name and shame (I'm not sure what kind of penalty could be given) those who screw players over, then I'm all for it existing right alongside Feardragon's new regulatory committee.
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lol this definitely sounds fuctup 
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Oh god this is hilarious.
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Katowice25012 Posts
I don't know whats going on here
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On July 27 2015 08:02 ZeromuS wrote:
The council members really got me LOL
Though i do agree. If the organisers are putting ruleson players those tournaments also need to meet a set of requirements on their end.
On July 27 2015 08:08 Circumstance wrote:
By all means, all people should be held accountable, no matter what role they have in the scene. If there's a meaningful method to name and shame (I'm not sure what kind of penalty could be given) those who screw players over, then I'm all for it existing right alongside Feardragon's new regulatory committee.
+1
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Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
Hopefully with ToA and FUCTUP we will raise player and organizational conditions to a level where no injustice is left unturned.
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this actually is really funny. so strange that kane out of all people created it
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United States290 Posts
I would like to join this union so that I can be protected from poorly organized tournaments.
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On July 27 2015 08:15 SharkStarcraft wrote:
this actually is really funny. so strange that kane out of all people created it
It's strange that Kane created something funny?
I mean, this seems like standard Kane trolling to me. Though damn, that poster and the formatting is really going the extra mile on this one.
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Sure, why not. This makes complete sense.
TOA are dead serious in their attempt to make the scene better.
FUCTUP is a parody.
If only this was as well prepared and with the same good intentions as TOA, this would be great. As of now this just hurts it's own case, Imho. "Oh I can't behave like an inresponsible noshow any more? I'll just blame someone else for something else". Instead, take responsibility, and be serious in your demands to tournament organizers.
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Whether or not this is an actual thing or just satire, I have always been super weirded out by stories of late or non payment of prizemoney. And then a year later someone decides to tweet about it, but most people just keep silent for a very long time. It's not ok and people should stop giving these organisations so much slack.
The other points are pretty decent as well I think. Especially with starting a tournament late, viewers are affected by this shit too.
Ofc you can't actually do much about it except name and shame, but I think that should be enough to inject some manners into these organisations and restart their innovation and quality control.
So I really hope you're serious in this.
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Canada8157 Posts
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I wish it was serious, but I don't believe so. It'd be nice to have something like this in place, if only to name names, but I think Kane's just havin' fun.
Hey, maybe this'll actually spur discussion towards creating a real version of this. That'd be neat.
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Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
On July 27 2015 08:19 Rehio wrote:Show nested quote +On July 27 2015 08:15 SharkStarcraft wrote:
this actually is really funny. so strange that kane out of all people created it It's strange that Kane created something funny? I mean, this seems like standard Kane trolling to me. Though damn, that poster and the formatting is really going the extra mile on this one.
For an amateur Twitter player sure, but Kane is a Twitter Pro.
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On July 27 2015 08:24 Wildmoon wrote:
Is this serious?
No, it's Kane.
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lol that acrynom got me, I was worried someone was actually serious to start something with such an acronym.
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