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Jin Hui Cao, known by his ID Jim, has been disqualified from IEM Shanghai without dropping a single match in the open bracket. Having to work out Visa issues for his participation in the upcoming Ro16 of WCS America live from Santa Monica, California, Jim had to leave before the winners' bracket final that would have seen him into the group stages against Daisy.
IEM tried to accommodate Jim, playing the second open bracket and finishing the qualification for that before returning back to the first bracket. With the second open bracket finished, IEM gave Jim a time where he had to show up by or be disqualified, and the Chinese player could not meet the final deadline set by the officials. He was then officially disqualified from the tournament, leaving Daisy the winner of the top side of the bracket and MC -- who had lost to Daisy -- the winner of the losers' bracket.
Now the reason why Jim wasn't able to make his games is because of him trying to get his Visa situation resolved so he could travel to America to compete in the Ro16 of WCS America. Jim, who advanced to the Ro16 without a loss against Nestea and Major, was the top seed of Group A and one of the favorites to make a deep run in the tournament.
Also, it is being reported that Jim and Macsed -- another Chinese player who made it to the Ro16 of WCS America - have failed to get their US Visas in time for the Ro16 and might have to forfeit their spots. This would be the third time in two seasons where a player had to forfeit in the Ro16 of WCS America, Violet having to drop out last season.
In response to Jim's disqualification from the tournament, Jim's coach spoke out about the issues:
Regarding today's events.
We've started applying for Visa a month ago, because a lot of people are applying for Visa in the Shanghai area, we were only given two time slots. One is 7am on 24th, another is 3pm today. Because yesterday morning MacSed needed to play his WCS group matches, our only choice left is today's appointment. After we confirmed the time, we've been in constant arrangement with IEM and Chinajoy. Right after we've gotten the schedule from the IEM official Mickeal, we've been negociating with him about Jim's matches, and he agreed to move Jim's matches to start at 9am this morning, asking us to come early at 8am and we can start as soon as both players arrive. This way we would be able to make our visa appointment. Also regarding Blizzard showmatch, we've arraged for Top to play first day's matches. and TT-Esports final, we've also notified to officials. As for today, we arrived early at 8am as promised, but the game was delayed and didn't start until 10am, even this was after my consistant request to the officials. Finally when Jim reached the qualifier finals it's already 12pm. The ambassy takes at least an hour from the venue, with traffic even longer, and that it's difficult to get a taxi outside of the Chinajoy venue. To ensure we make it to the Visa appointment, we have no choice but talk with Blizzard official Jacky and together negociate with IEM official, we promised we'd finish around 4:30pm at the earliest, and if we really can't make it, the possibility of pushing the game back to tomorrow. By the time we finish at the ambassy at 4:50pm, we saw on the our cellphone that Jim has already been disqualified. And most unfortunately, because Blizzard's invitation letter problem, the Visa was denied.
Now there's only two things I can do:
1 .Regarding the Visa we already called Blizzard offcial, asking Blizzard to call US ambassy and explain our Visa situation, and possibly push back our scheduled match on Aug 6th by a day or two, to ensure we have enough time to get the Visa again.
2. I just got off the phone with IEM, because it's hard to hear in the phone, IEM has requested us to show up tomorrow morning at 8am to continue discuss this issue. On this, I pointed out thier problems very clearly, they said they disqualified Jim because they have to follow the scedule. But the truth is, we got delayed two hours this morning, if it weren't for the delay, we have plenty of time to finish the matches before heading to the Embassy. And what's more, Grubby and OZ was allowed to reschedule thier matches to tomorrow because of their own schedule conflicts.
Finally, if you support Jim and like seeing him play, please do cheer for him, he's had the worse luck today.
We've started applying for Visa a month ago, because a lot of people are applying for Visa in the Shanghai area, we were only given two time slots. One is 7am on 24th, another is 3pm today. Because yesterday morning MacSed needed to play his WCS group matches, our only choice left is today's appointment. After we confirmed the time, we've been in constant arrangement with IEM and Chinajoy. Right after we've gotten the schedule from the IEM official Mickeal, we've been negociating with him about Jim's matches, and he agreed to move Jim's matches to start at 9am this morning, asking us to come early at 8am and we can start as soon as both players arrive. This way we would be able to make our visa appointment. Also regarding Blizzard showmatch, we've arraged for Top to play first day's matches. and TT-Esports final, we've also notified to officials. As for today, we arrived early at 8am as promised, but the game was delayed and didn't start until 10am, even this was after my consistant request to the officials. Finally when Jim reached the qualifier finals it's already 12pm. The ambassy takes at least an hour from the venue, with traffic even longer, and that it's difficult to get a taxi outside of the Chinajoy venue. To ensure we make it to the Visa appointment, we have no choice but talk with Blizzard official Jacky and together negociate with IEM official, we promised we'd finish around 4:30pm at the earliest, and if we really can't make it, the possibility of pushing the game back to tomorrow. By the time we finish at the ambassy at 4:50pm, we saw on the our cellphone that Jim has already been disqualified. And most unfortunately, because Blizzard's invitation letter problem, the Visa was denied.
Now there's only two things I can do:
1 .Regarding the Visa we already called Blizzard offcial, asking Blizzard to call US ambassy and explain our Visa situation, and possibly push back our scheduled match on Aug 6th by a day or two, to ensure we have enough time to get the Visa again.
2. I just got off the phone with IEM, because it's hard to hear in the phone, IEM has requested us to show up tomorrow morning at 8am to continue discuss this issue. On this, I pointed out thier problems very clearly, they said they disqualified Jim because they have to follow the scedule. But the truth is, we got delayed two hours this morning, if it weren't for the delay, we have plenty of time to finish the matches before heading to the Embassy. And what's more, Grubby and OZ was allowed to reschedule thier matches to tomorrow because of their own schedule conflicts.
Finally, if you support Jim and like seeing him play, please do cheer for him, he's had the worse luck today.
Update: It appears that Jim has been officially DQ'ed from IEM Shanghai, but will be given a seed into the next IEM tournament qualifer, IEM New York, if he can get his US Visa issues resolved.
Update 2: MacSed will compete in the Ro16 of WCS America, having acquired his US Visa. Jim is still trying and more news to come.
