we need a tftv history book
@mustardoverlord get on this shit these whippersnappers need some learnin
basically rewind 3 they somehow didnt find out that the LAN venue was 'cloud' gaming aka not actually a LAN, but a bunch of computers streaming similar to steam in home broadcast (dont ask me why tf these morons thought it was a good business model to do that), and when ppl found out it was super late and they couldn't get another venue so it got cancelled
bts was a giant fiasco where they forced teams to buy tickets upfront and show confirmations of their booking in order to have a reserved spot, and then after the admins got hate for randomly banning alfa from going to the venue tsc had a meltdown and left the game permanently (jk hes surely pulling strings somehow behind the scene somehow) and loads of ppl stepped up to help make sure the tournament happened despite this admin stepping down, but sami also started getting a ton of hate because she was defending dashner and she couldn't handle the stress and decided to outright cancel the event, instead of stepping down herself and letting others take over (there were tons of volunteers w/ ample experience that could've)
the end result was a bunch of ppl got fucked over and couldn't get their money back from flights/hotels and others like myself ended up just going to cali anyways and doing a vacation since stuff couldn't be cancelled