On the issue of the DQ that happened. Our team registration/roster-ing closed a long time ago. Before the tournament had begun. During our MULTIPLE MANDATORY meetings we hosted in our mumble to address tournament roster/match/execution questions, we confirmed that rosters were set after the team registration periods were set AND that more than 2 ringers were not allowed and were also required to be "similiar skill level" and be approved by the admins. DURING TODAYS PLAYOFF MATCH, Smesi had 3 ringers, Catface, Akinfenwa, and GAB. (none were rostered). Before the match Smesi lied to the admins, saying he only HAD ONE ringer. After checking into the server before the match begun I realized he had all 3 of the ringers named above.
Prior to this, RainofLight had signed up with his team "Hurricane Watch" before the deadline knowing IN ADVANCE that half of his team was not able to make the tournament. He "Wanted to be rostered so he could be counted as a ringer for other teams". AFTER the deadline, it was confirmed that his team had died and could no longer play. RainofLight then asked me if he could sign up the other team he was playing for in their place (He told me this was "KevinisPwns team"). I agreed. Later on, RainofLight told me he had actually never asked the "replacement team" if they could play but had continued to sign them up anyway. So I had to submit 3 forfeit wins because RainofLight NEVER messaged me that the team had died until the 2nd night of the tournament. Because of all the Forfeit Wins caused by teams dying, I granted Smesi's team more than 2 ringers for a group stage match due to both teams moving on regardless of the result so the match did not matter for either side. RainofLight was one of the ringers in the group stage. Earlier today, RainofLight told Console that he was supposed to be on Smesi's roster and had been this entire time. Little did we know, Rain was talking about the UGC roster that him and Smesi are on together not the tournament roster. So Console put RainofLight on the team roster for Smesi. Console did not message any of the other admins about this so nobody else's opinions were used. After learning that Rain was added to the roster i promptly told Smesi via steam message that RainofLight was not allowed to play. RainofLight had killed 2 teams in the tournament causing many Forfeit Wins for other teams and that was my reasoning for not approving the roster transfer, regardess of if he was rostered in UGC or not. IN THE SERVER before the match: on Smesi's team were Catface (who's team also died and attempted to alias as "Sandblast" in the server to cover up their ringer status), Akinfenwa (also not rostered), GAB (also not rostered) and RainofLight (incorrectly rostered and told could not play). These ringers were not "similar skill level" to the players Smesi was replacing and numbered more than the 2 we allowed. After multiple interactions of explaining that there were too many ringers and Rain was NOT ALLOWED to play, I, after talking with the other admins AND ALSO other tournament players, I issued a disqualification for Smesi's team. TO REPEAT THIS, RainofLight WAS ADDED to Smesi's roster. But regardless of Rain, Smesi's team still had more than 2 ringers. His whole team proceeded to call the admins retards and refused to calmly discuss us. AFTERWARDS, while my team was playing our playoff match RainofLight used his VPN to get into our mumble server and continued to mic spam during our match. We told him we would talk to him after the match but he left.
We WERE NOT trying to steal keys from players. THE ONLY TWO DONATORS were Entropy (Admin) and Phlash, who is a close friend of ours. We had many players offer to donate but NO OFFERS WERE ACCEPTED. We will be issuing a refund to Phlash. We humbly apologize for all the issues this has caused, but these rules were made very clear in the mandatory meetings. I would also like to add that NONE of Smesi's team showed up to the meetings except Smesi. So he was very aware of the rules and failed to follow them. That ultimately led to his team being disqualified. Again, I would like to apologize for this happening. Our intention was to have a fun, PAYMENT FREE ENTRY tournament that would benefit our great community. If anyone would like to discuss this with me personally my steam id is http://steamcommunity.com/id/ponterrific/ . Did myself and the other admins execute the tournament perfectly? Absolutely not. But I would appreciate if people try to see this from both sides of the story. I attempted to do so in this post. Thank you for reading. Again, ill answer any questions you guys have. All Roster info is in the original post and can be publicly viewed. Thank you