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That's some real tryhards picks. Road to TI5 tryhard level.

Zaphid_sl said:

Fnatic found out after DH Bucharest that Era has problems, which was 4 weeks ago ?

EG has been playing Mason since April or earlier, IIRC the team has more games with Mason than with Fear.

So, yeah, there's a very good reason. I can't imagine Valve not fixing this, especially after the bitchfit reddit has thrown, but I feel like the only one you could blame here is Era, especially if he knew beforehand this issue could prevent him going to TI. Of course, telling people "I have psychological problems" is one of the most difficult things to do, so it's more of a lose-lose situation.

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Duration it's been happening doesn't really change the situation though, if the guy has a recognized and diagnosticed illness, it's something out of their control, saying they'll be disqualified because of it seems extremely short sighted especially when they have authorized another team to sub using the same reason. Yes Mason had been playing for a long period of time sure, but they still invited Fear, not Mason, it's the same thing.

Also it's not like there's some shady shit going on. They're not saying "oh our player isn't feeling too good, so we're replacing him with this higher tier player that couldn't find an actual team to play in TI4" or whatever, they're replacing by an unknown guy with no competitive experience, the switch isn't advantageous to them and while they've shown good things, you could clearly see how it worked out after a few games and people started figuring that you just put massive pressure on Excalibur and the entire thing crumbles. The way I see it the rule to not switch is to prevent weird situations like a team not qualifying then buying their way into another team, swapping several players, so they can instead go to TI and that sort of thing. This isn't what's happening there at all though.

In the first place they should have expanded the amount of players per team invited. 6 or 7 players, so teams can actually have subs. They made 30millions out of compendiums, I'm sure they can find a bit of money to fly and pay for food and hotel for 20-30ish more people. And they should have rules in place for swaps due to illness or injury. If tomorrow Loda breaks his arm, do they just disqualify Alliance? Is this how it works? They wouldn't even let them try to play with a last minute sub? Sounds fucking retarded.

Seems CIS is getting fucked in the ass by visa denials too. While I understand hosting in the US is easier for them, every fucking TI there's those shitty stories about visas getting denied several times before they eventually get in, if they do at all. Didn't LoL get special treatment for foreigners visas? Valve should get that shit, or host it somewhere else that's a little bit more lax about their visas rules(canada might be no idea, otherwise host in europe).