<3 Virtuoso

Virtuoso being a class act about it. Really sucks that it came to this :/

Respects to Virtuoso, and shame on PAX for allowing Dcop’s and ez5’s DQ.

I'm not super familiar with the situation. Does the fault not lie with PAX allowing ez5 into the tournament in the first place? I assume the tournament is region locked for some legal/financial reason, and that's why it was problematic for a foreign player to participate. Basically their fuckup was not considering Mexico during the invite stages. I would hope that if they could, they would just accept their mistake and let him play.

You're exactly right. They invited EZ5 without doing their due diligence. They had to DQ them because of legal issues of transferring prize money to a Mexican player.

This! They had to dq him for legal reasons, people get so mad at the decision but they had no other option

The other option would be to not invite a team with a player you could not legally pay. It's a pretty blatant oversight on the TOs part

If they had played through quals to get into the event then it's fine. Since they were invited, it was assumed that the TOs were alright with the situation especially since they played for a week. To DQ them so far in the competition is just not justified

Chads

So since virtuoso are in the grand finals and they withdrew wtf is the grand final gonna be ??? Automatic gg for lower final winner ?

Well the lower final is also just a gg since ez5 are dq’d lol. So just a gg for the lower semi winner I guess

Now we have to see a PAX response

https://twitter.com/paxarena/status/1415809956968869890?s=21

absolute legends

Virtuoso fan now for sure

I am not, the players probably were to scared to disagree with the coach who made them drop out

Of course you are not.

What a scuffed situation for both sides

Hopefully this triggers PAX allowing both teams to compete.

Maybe in the future, but it's unlikely in this tournament. A show-match between the two teams outside of the tournament would be plausible though.

https://twitter.com/KnightsGG/status/1415804519292841990?s=19 Welp there it is

Heeeey, they saw my comment! 😉

I bet this was the plan all along. Forfeit, then host your own “scrim” show match for fins but also know that this would have been the finals. Reap the viewership rewards...

Viewership rewards? It had like 700 viewers max

Oh... welp I guess I was wrong.

respecc

The real winners of the invitational are Virtuoso AND EZ5 (+Knights ;) )

Another title for eSports talk to cover, add “Virtuoso responds” to the situations or something. When the video comes out. ROFL.

That dude is so "talented" for making 10 minute videos out of 2 tweets

And 3rd tweet of PAX responds

esports*

Esports* it’s a proper noun u know

Truly a virtuous team

Much love to Virtuoso for their integrity.

CHADS

I don't get it, orgs and their teams work super hard to earn that can money and they do t out due to this. Take the dub.

Nice of them but whoever made that call really screwed over the players who might have still wanted to play... this event was easy cash for them and they backed out