Resident Clan of Asylum

Le site Internet SK-Gaming a reçu un communiqué officiel de l'équipe belge Defusekids sur une affaire bien embarrassante pour les organisateurs des qualifications belges de l'ACON 5. En effet l'équipe belge des Defusekids, qui s'était qualifiée pour les finales mondiales de cette compétition et y avait terminé à la 3ème place, devait recevoir 5 000 $ de cash prize. Seulement cet argent les Defusekids n'en ont pas encore vu la couleur car l'organisateur national reproche aux joueurs d'avoir raté leur avion en Chine suite à une erreur de la part des organisateurs sur place. L'organisateur mettrait en avant le fait qu'ils doivent utiliser leur dotation pour rembourser le prix des billets d'avion rachetés.
Dans son article SK-Gaming explique via le communiqué des joueurs que plusieurs autres joueurs avaient raté leur avion en Chine mais n'ont pas eu à rembourser quoique ce soit. Ce qui n'est pas le cas pour les joueurs belges. Pourtant en Chine un employé d'Abit, le sponsor de la compétition, leur avait payé les nouveaux billets pour rentrer jusqu'en Allemagne et assuré qu'il n'aurait pas à rembourser sur leur cash prize.

Les Defusekids sont pour le moment dans l'impasse vis à vis de leur cash prize et ont même du payer la fin du voyage retour entre l'Allemagne et la Belgique de leur poche. Les Defusekids ont donc décidé de mettre la pression sur les organisateurs belges de l'ACON 5 en révélant à la communauté leur situation.

Voici un extrait du communiqué officiel de l'équipe Defusekids sur le site des SK-Gaming :


My name is Yannik Bindo, former member of team Defusekids. Our team finished 3rd at the "Acon5 2005" tournament but never received our prize ( an amount of 5000USD in cash). Now we, as a team, have decided to address this problem to the counter-strike community in the hope confronting the ACON5 organization with this issue so it gets solved and prevented in the future.

Acon5 informed us during the tournament that teams will receive their money from the organization who held the qualifiers in their specific region. We've had several attempts talking things out with the organization of Abit.nl, but the mails we received were always dodgy. If we received a reply at all..
Acon5 had a strict departure schedule. All teams had to be ready early in the morning to take the bus on time, so nobody would miss their flight. We took the bus that was designated to us (amongst other teams), but upon arriving at the airport we discovered we missed our plane by an hour. And not just us: ‘Team Frag eXecutor's of Poland, the warcrafter of Poland and ‘Rotterdam' from the Netherlands who had the same schedule as us also missed their plane. Obviously this was a mistake made by either the Acon5 management or from the organization Abit who arranged the tickets (in case it being Abit.nl, the Polish players wouldn't have had the same issue in my opinion). After a long discussion about how we should get home, a member of the Acon5 organization bought new flight tickets for all the players. We strictly mentioned that in no way the price of the new tickets should be deducted from our prize money, since it was an organizational error. This was actually confirmed by the ACON5 employee that bought us the tickets.
On the plane home we met the other teams that were on the same bus as we were, who apparently received correct tickets. Our plane headed to Germany where we had to arrange ourselves transportation to Belgium, on our own expense. Finally home we contacted Abit.nl, the responsible organization for our region, to work out the details about the prize money deposit. They asked for bank account information to transfer, in which we complied. The deposit always got delayed until after several months they just said that we weren't going to receive our price money because they used it to compensate our new flight tickets. But here are some facts:

The price of a ticket was about 450€ so let's say that is around 500$ x 5 = 2500$ and it still doesn't even come close to the 5000$ we won.
The fact that we missed our flight wasn't in any case our fault, which they denied, but ‘Rotterdam' (who also missed his plane) didn't need to pay 450$ to abit.nl and ‘Team Frag eXecutor's (same story) didn't need to pay a dime to their regional organization of Abit.

Nickopol wrote:C con, un combat à mort, car le perdant n'en retire aucune experience.
Il n'y a rien de pire, pour la technique !