I am so deeply sorry to hear this news and to her family. I had reached out to check in on her when I saw her being harassed by the community a year back, which rekindled our friendship since we used to play on an ESEA team together. There wasn't much I could do except listen and give drawing advice when she came to me to chat. The bullying of her was abhorrent, she didn't need to be ridiculed, but needed help and friendship. Her twitter gives some better insight of her mindset of what happened, and too many warning signs. I'm so sorry I missed them, Lain. I sincerely hope people can understand the gravity bullying does to people, this should have never happened. RIP.

I've kept quiet about this situation because I wanted to retain some semblance of privacy. But with all the lies and rumors that are being spread by Alfa, and knowing he is going to try to blow something up tomorrow, I just wanted to address all the things that have been said. I want to set the record straight and finally tell everyone about my story. Thank you to those that stayed by my side throughout everything, and i'm sorry I never came out about this sooner.

Here is The Full Alfa story

https://i.imgur.com/IKPfUPO.png

wbacon was trying to give his social security number out to everyone, i think them kidnapping u was the correct choice

Shoutout to B4nny for making it happen, shout-out to exa and dolphin for running the show with me for over 10 hours!!
Shoutout to everyone who made it, and all the casters, our photographers becca and hidi, and all the organizations that pulled together to stream everything.
Shoutout to the Witness Gaming house for all being so chill and kind!
Shoutout to the ford house for the party
Shoutout to Virgil, camper and his wife noel!
Shoutout to all the team leaders, I’m sorry I had to bug you guys and tap at your desk every hour, I seriously appreciate and communication and effort everyone put in.
Shoutout to frickmynick for paying for kbbq and it’s not my birthday but thanks guys
It was great to meet everyone and I hope to see you all at the next one!

Extensions will not be granted to teams unless they are Invite Qualifier teams. If one player on a team can't pay up for another few days, it will be considered, but teams are required to be fully paid to be scheduled.

trxz is passionate about the game and learning to get better, he is nice friend. i would recommend giving him a tryout

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Hey guys, wanted to respond to clear about the scheduling issue presented.

With how many teams were in advanced this season, the fact that 3 died meant we were going to run into duplicate matches on the last week. Unfortunately, there isn't any way around this without giving people matches. This being said, this also applies to BYE weeks being duplicated for a team. Quoting Tery below, he is correct and this is the exact reason we moved the BYE from Goblin.

We wanted to give LMNOP and GOBLIN the opportunity to break into playoffs this season, with BYE weeks potentially ruining those chances because BYE weeks only give 1 round won. A big factor in this is because Advanced is top 4 for playoffs instead of top 8, because the smaller size of Advanced this season.

Taking into consideration the teams that did get screwed over, its important for us to try to find ways to adapt and improve with how we run things. I don't think there's ever going to be a perfect resolution where everyone is happy, but feedback is appreciated so we can improve as the seasons come and go.

This might as well be a BYE week regardless, because FFW don't give you full match points, just the same as BYE weeks. With all this being said, if anyone has any questions or wishes to discuss, feel free to continue the conversation here or DM me at reno#0019.

I wanted to pop in to see if I could help clarify why we make some of these decisions. First, I appreciate everyone raising their concerns on the matter, I always recommend people to send over their suggestions so we can improve how we run things.

Something I have heard a few times was having a set in stone rule for ringers, but I think room for interpretation is always good and needed for something like this. I honestly feel like there would be more people restricted if we managed it that way. Lets use Zaboomafoo as an example... We try to restrict people if they have received top 2 or 3 in the division they are playing in, or lower. Considering Zaboomafoo has only reached mid Advanced twice, and upper mid-main, it would make no sense to restrict him even if people think he's "a top 3 demo in Advanced".

We did try to be more relaxed about restrictions this season, and even based restrictions on the overall skill of the team to avoid stacks that Scream mentioned earlier. Typically, if we restrict one person from a class and not the other, it is likely because they either were top 2 in the same division or higher, or played mid-Invite. Of course, this system is never perfect. If anyone has any suggestions on other ways we should handle this, please let me know.

Well then I suppose they should have rostered Asterisk before the match.

Because that's the difference between a ringer and a sub. You're allowed to reject ringers if they aren't a default ringer. That's why we have the default ringer rule, to protect teams.

The issue was that Asterisk was claimed as a default ringer. By the rules, he wouldn't classify as a default ringer in Main. The enemy team is allowed to reject the ringer because of this. He wasn't added to the roster until 9/29, a day after the match was supposed to originally happen. Asterisk is allowed to play in Main, but it's in the other teams ballcourt if they want to approve them or not in regards to them ringing for the match as long as they aren't a default ringer. That's why people roster subs instead of having ringers.

He was not on the roster when this happened.

The original FFW was overturned because they tried to ring somebody in advanced (which makes them auto not qualify as a default ringer) as a default ringer and then they submitted the FFW and left before contacting an admin.