DQing someone who opted to play PUBG because his game wasn’t being live casted seems fine to me. If your reason to play is being casted live and won’t play when you’re not seems like a massive insult to the people who put these things together.
Who was consulted here for this decision?
Doesn’t particularly matter now though. Going back on this decision would look awful.
I suppose a few mitigating circumstances would help you understand why I even considered re-evaluating this decision, they're not all valid in my eyes but they are things to be considered:
1) Stuve was never directly told there could be penalties or issues if he refused to play. He thought of himself as 'forfeiting' and that as a valid option. I consider it non-competitive behaviour and awful but I've been running tournaments for years. For some of our players exposure to competitive events is low, and misunderstandings can happen.
2) There was less of a stage being shown that day to the third place match in not casting it, and after having a delay for the world cup final. We had valid reasons and had planned for all of this, but not everyone sees all the posts regarding the tournament, so it can still create an atmosphere of the third place match not mattering as much.
3) Stuve had been BM'd by Kimbo during the day, even after I instructed all players to respect one another, which set the mood for him. Just a mitigating circumstance.
4) Stuve had been constructive and apologetic when approached.
5) There were miscommunications that were as a result of being understaffed for referees on Day 1, that contributed to the lateness in the quarter final game.
6) The DQ was decided quite quickly, one day, without consulting all referees and organisers.
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