Hey everyone, we have decided to cancel the Episode 3 event entirely.
We apologize to anyone who is unable to get a refund on their travel.
This was a tough situation and decision to make.
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A Final Update:
For the last few months we have tried to work with two venues to find a good home for the LAN, unfortunately neither panned out, for both logistical and monetary reasons. Once we knew we were unable to provide that LAN experience, we were aiming to run an offline event for those who booked tickets and additionally whoever wanted to come that would coincide with an online tournament. Unfortunately we are not going to be able to make that happen and it sucks that this is the case.
I, as well as everyone on the team, volunteered a lot of time trying to organize and make the event work. Although it was quite frustrating at times, we would do it again. For us, the disappointing thing is not being able to make up for the people who spent money on travel. No one wants to organize an event to have attendees book travel and then be unable to deliver on the event.
The secondary plan was to run an online tournament with a base prize pool and crowdfunding on that weekend to replace the LAN. Trying to find ways to incentivise people to watch and participate, potentially leading to raising not only money for the prize pool, but to help compensate those who lost money on travel.
After internal conversations, this plan, logistically, couldn’t reach fruition.
Thank you all for being understanding during the last 2 months. We appreciate it.
Sorry we were unable to make the event work.
We are available here for all questions or via DM. If anyone needs help sorting anything out as well.
Thanks,
Episode 3 Team