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As many of you know myself and my crew The Mages have run some of the most successful East Coast tournaments of all time. After today we have also held the second biggest EC tournament ever. However, I only write this due to the fact that an absolutely unheard of offense occurred this weekend.
We, as a rule, always keep all of our money separated and counted in envelopes inside a lock box which only i have the key for. At no point during this tournament was that lock box out of my sight for more than twenty minutes. At some point, someone felt the need to break the lock box, then break our lock box inside that actually had the money. As if that wasn't enough they stole our entire crews pot of $1000, then fixed the boxes and went on their way!
We are not complacent tournament hosts, we are also not in this for profit. But there is no way we can host a tournament of this size and allow this to happen. We had to take the money for crews out of our entrance fee money, which therefore didn't allow us to pay for the venue in full thus ruining any relationship we had with the venue owner. We were also unable to pay for our equipment as well.
I would just like to personally say that this has much soured my liking of this community. To think someone would steal from the people who provide the very catalyst for it's growth. So I'd like to announce that unless something drastic changes, there will NOT be another tournament hosted by The Mages. This is just a blatant show of disrespect towards us and there is no reason for us to support a community which won't even give us the common courtesy of not stealing everyone's money. So with all this having been said...
...It's just not fun anymore...
**EDIT**
For the record, ANYONE who knows who did this please PM me. Or if you did it and you want to come clean, I'll be more than happy to keep your name confidential should you come forward and return the stolen money. It would be all too appreciated.
Anyone who wishes to donate may got here: http://ssbmcataclysm.com/j1/
Just click donate and there you go. Tell everyone you know if they're interested. Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you all in advance.
We, as a rule, always keep all of our money separated and counted in envelopes inside a lock box which only i have the key for. At no point during this tournament was that lock box out of my sight for more than twenty minutes. At some point, someone felt the need to break the lock box, then break our lock box inside that actually had the money. As if that wasn't enough they stole our entire crews pot of $1000, then fixed the boxes and went on their way!
We are not complacent tournament hosts, we are also not in this for profit. But there is no way we can host a tournament of this size and allow this to happen. We had to take the money for crews out of our entrance fee money, which therefore didn't allow us to pay for the venue in full thus ruining any relationship we had with the venue owner. We were also unable to pay for our equipment as well.
I would just like to personally say that this has much soured my liking of this community. To think someone would steal from the people who provide the very catalyst for it's growth. So I'd like to announce that unless something drastic changes, there will NOT be another tournament hosted by The Mages. This is just a blatant show of disrespect towards us and there is no reason for us to support a community which won't even give us the common courtesy of not stealing everyone's money. So with all this having been said...
...It's just not fun anymore...
**EDIT**
For the record, ANYONE who knows who did this please PM me. Or if you did it and you want to come clean, I'll be more than happy to keep your name confidential should you come forward and return the stolen money. It would be all too appreciated.
Anyone who wishes to donate may got here: http://ssbmcataclysm.com/j1/
Just click donate and there you go. Tell everyone you know if they're interested. Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you all in advance.