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ESWC Polen LAN-Finals wegen Flut abgesagt

Die LAN-Finals des ESWC Polen wurde aufgrund der anhaltenden Flut abgesagt und werden nicht vom 4. bis 6. Juni in Warschau stattfinden. Trotzdem haben allerdings Mannschaften aus Polen die Chance sich für das ESWC Grand Final zu qualifizieren, unklar ist bisher nur über welchen Weg. Insbesondere für die Konsolen-Titel kommt eine Online-Qualifikation nicht in Frage.

Als Ausgleich für den Ausfall der LAN-Finals haben sich die Organisatoren nunmehr jedoch entschieden mehr Teams und Spieler als bisher geplant nach Paris zu schicken. Insgesamt neun zusätzliche Akteure sollen ein Ticket zum ESWC Grand Final erhalten, darunter auch ein zusätzliches Counter-Strike-Team.

Stellungnahme Sposoren N. Goldman und Harry J. Kasperski
„Due to the tragic flood, and because of the fact that we have no timetable for when the flood will pass, the main sponsor of the ESWC Poland Finals 2010 is forced to cancel this years event in Warsaw on the days of June 4 – June 6, 2010.

The sponsor has experienced losses exceeding millions of Złotych because of the flooding of its investments in Poland. The sponsor has no guarantee that there won’t be a situation where the LAN will have to be cut short because of the unpredictability of the flood, or another one hitting its investments. As of this moment, many cultural festivals have been cancelled, as well as sports events. Unfortunately the same situation has hit the sponsor of the ESWC who is not able to predict future losses caused by the flood.

For this reason and albeit repeated protests from the organizer and the owner of the ESWC license, the sponsor, after a discussion with the manager of the project J.H. Kasperski has made the final decision to cancel the event in Poland.

We would like to apologize to all of the players and to the company Beholder. This decision was not made because we don’t acknowledge the prestige of the event, but it was only made because of the huge losses that have hit the sponsor because of the flood. For this reason there will be no LAN Finals in Warsaw on the days of June 4 – June 6, 2010.“

Stellungnahme Sposoren Organisatoren ESWC Poland, Beholder:
„Albeit all of our work to decrease the costs of the planned event as well as finding other ways out of this situation, we are forced to cancel the LAN Final because of the backing out of our sponsor. A lot of time and work has been put into the organization, but unfortunately our financial situation does not allow us to organize such a big event at this time.

With great sorrow we have accepted the sponsors decision, especially since this is a vital part of the ESWC eliminations. We do understand that not only the players are affected by this, but also the gaming organizations which is why this hurts us so much more that we have to inform you of the cancellation of the event. Unfortunately, none of us were able to predict such a scenario.

Having the current situation in our minds, and wanting to at least compensate the losses party, we have decided to expand the amount of people we will be sending to the Grand Final in Paris by an extra nine people. Taking into consideration the activity of the Counter-Strike scene and the amount of players, we have decided to send three teams to represent Poland. The top two teams will earn a spot in the Grand Finals, as well as the top placing female team.

At this time the console eliminations are left and without a LAN Final it is impossible to determine the top players. We are currently in talks with a smaller sponsor who was supposed to support the console LAN finals and we will update the console community as we learn more information. We ask the community to understand the sponsors situation. For this whole situation, we’d like to profusely apologize.“

Quelle: http://en.frag-executors.com/news/ESWC-Poland-without-LAN-Finals.html
  1. Velatrix #2
    Das ist die offiziele Version in echt wurde sie abgesagt weil die Organisation versagt hat und sie keine Lokation finden konnten.
    karLson #3
    ja, wegen der flut halt ^^
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