First of all I want to thank everybody who's been supportive of me to this point, it means a ton. Thank you also to the people who gave me the benefit of the doubt, or at least can at least sympathize with the situation I am going through. It's great to know I have so many friends who actually care, you guys are absolutely amazing and it helps so much to hear the encouraging words coming from you all.
Next I want to address the people saying I am STEALING. The EVENT was not a successful EVENT as far as money goes. I took funds for the EVENT to pay off the EVENT or the EVENT would not have happened, period. I don't have funds of my own to cover the venue and the event would NOT have happened at all, so there was really not a choice like it is being gossipped around. Like I had some sort of cash for the prizes and just gave it to the hotel who was like "Hey man yea just pay us off whenever, it's no problem". No, they want the money up front.
There is nowhere set in stone that delegates where that money that comes in is going to go. You all are paying me to run a successful event, and I distribute those funds how I choose to do so. I even realize in hosting my event that the money can go towards whatever it has to which is why I put the entry fee as ONE LARGE SUM rather than split up per event/fee/etc, because it is in the end all to go towards MAKING THE TOURNAMENT AS GOOD AS POSSIBLE AT ANY TIME. The event happening at all is more important than the prizewinners being paid out. The cash was NEVER yours, it is not stealing. Prizes come after the event venue gets paid off, sorry, that's how it works. If there is not enough money to cover the event there would be no event and therefore no prizes or event. At least this way the majority of people still had fun.
I make one post and then I am BUSY and don't really have time to get back on here and keep up with everything and read it all and make a post responding to it. After more I realize there's just so much **** in so many threads I can't possibly address so I'll just make my own.
I have no legal obligation to do this but again, I'm doing this simply to clear the air and so people don't continue to say these absurd stories. Here is a listing of the charges charged to my bank account from the hotel on 02/24 and 02/25. Theres also an unlisted charge of $418 which will be charged to me as well because it was accidently charged to Mango and will be being reversed to my card FURTHER out of my OWN MONEY because I told Mango I could get him a cheap room then the hotel messed up and it's too late to fix. So yeah each of those rooms was a room I had to book or a cancellation/no-show I had to pay for. Each transaction is for multiple rooms btw.
I can understand how people could think that I should take the hit before not paying out the prizes, but I can't understand how after this long people would accuse me of just taking the money and running....that is just insulting and outright hurtful. I've done nothing but try and further this community and I've contributed so many days, restless nights, and hours into this community trying to just making sure people enjoy themselves as best as possible...
One last time, to the people who are trying to say I profited and ran away from the tournament and this was all a scheme from the beginning or some ****: **** you, **** your speculation and attitudes, and **** the ungrateful people who dare to even accuse me of such things ONE DAY after I make a post by saying I'm "running away from the community" when I simply don't have the time to devote to read the hundreds of posts and make a formulated response. I am only one person, and no matter how pissed off you are I am still only one person and only have so much time in the day to balance dealing with this bull**** and everything else in my life.
edit:: Oh and the people saying I was planning to just bail and move to California, I was planning on moving to California long ago and it fell through, I havent had intentions on doing that for months which I have vocalized many times. Again people exaggerating and saying **** that isn't true.
Moving forward I would like to find a way to pay the prizewinners, but there is nothing I can do out of my pocket. I simply don't have the money. I obviously won't be able to run more tournaments in the future and make the money back, so I am left with no options really. It was not a successful event, period. If I made enough money to be able to save the money for those prizes, I would. But If I could save up 5k feasibly I would've saved that up long long ago. I make enough money to break even with my expenses and I'm already set back with my losses.
Next I want to address the people saying I am STEALING. The EVENT was not a successful EVENT as far as money goes. I took funds for the EVENT to pay off the EVENT or the EVENT would not have happened, period. I don't have funds of my own to cover the venue and the event would NOT have happened at all, so there was really not a choice like it is being gossipped around. Like I had some sort of cash for the prizes and just gave it to the hotel who was like "Hey man yea just pay us off whenever, it's no problem". No, they want the money up front.
There is nowhere set in stone that delegates where that money that comes in is going to go. You all are paying me to run a successful event, and I distribute those funds how I choose to do so. I even realize in hosting my event that the money can go towards whatever it has to which is why I put the entry fee as ONE LARGE SUM rather than split up per event/fee/etc, because it is in the end all to go towards MAKING THE TOURNAMENT AS GOOD AS POSSIBLE AT ANY TIME. The event happening at all is more important than the prizewinners being paid out. The cash was NEVER yours, it is not stealing. Prizes come after the event venue gets paid off, sorry, that's how it works. If there is not enough money to cover the event there would be no event and therefore no prizes or event. At least this way the majority of people still had fun.
I make one post and then I am BUSY and don't really have time to get back on here and keep up with everything and read it all and make a post responding to it. After more I realize there's just so much **** in so many threads I can't possibly address so I'll just make my own.
I have no legal obligation to do this but again, I'm doing this simply to clear the air and so people don't continue to say these absurd stories. Here is a listing of the charges charged to my bank account from the hotel on 02/24 and 02/25. Theres also an unlisted charge of $418 which will be charged to me as well because it was accidently charged to Mango and will be being reversed to my card FURTHER out of my OWN MONEY because I told Mango I could get him a cheap room then the hotel messed up and it's too late to fix. So yeah each of those rooms was a room I had to book or a cancellation/no-show I had to pay for. Each transaction is for multiple rooms btw.
I can understand how people could think that I should take the hit before not paying out the prizes, but I can't understand how after this long people would accuse me of just taking the money and running....that is just insulting and outright hurtful. I've done nothing but try and further this community and I've contributed so many days, restless nights, and hours into this community trying to just making sure people enjoy themselves as best as possible...
One last time, to the people who are trying to say I profited and ran away from the tournament and this was all a scheme from the beginning or some ****: **** you, **** your speculation and attitudes, and **** the ungrateful people who dare to even accuse me of such things ONE DAY after I make a post by saying I'm "running away from the community" when I simply don't have the time to devote to read the hundreds of posts and make a formulated response. I am only one person, and no matter how pissed off you are I am still only one person and only have so much time in the day to balance dealing with this bull**** and everything else in my life.
edit:: Oh and the people saying I was planning to just bail and move to California, I was planning on moving to California long ago and it fell through, I havent had intentions on doing that for months which I have vocalized many times. Again people exaggerating and saying **** that isn't true.
Moving forward I would like to find a way to pay the prizewinners, but there is nothing I can do out of my pocket. I simply don't have the money. I obviously won't be able to run more tournaments in the future and make the money back, so I am left with no options really. It was not a successful event, period. If I made enough money to be able to save the money for those prizes, I would. But If I could save up 5k feasibly I would've saved that up long long ago. I make enough money to break even with my expenses and I'm already set back with my losses.