Tonight saw 4Kings take on the mighty fnatic in a decider game, the winning team progressing to the ESL playoffs/lan finals. A lot was at stake and tensions were high, unfortunately there was a problem all along.
As most people know we lost DaY to MYM last week, meaning we had 4 people. We flew to Russia and spent the weekend in Russia for the Intel Friday Night where we played against Begrip Gaming. We arrived home Monday. This morning I spoke to several players about sorting a stand-in for the game vs fnatic, this I was assured wouldn’t be an issue by all concerned. I found out Joona (natu) had problems of a personal nature that had to be attended too and he had left his home for his brothers in another part of Finland. This left us with a 3 man team, not ideal when you have to play a decider match vs fnatic.
We eventually found two stand-in for the game shortly before the match was due to start, this was all sorted in the private channel (where both fnatic and 4K were present) and fnatic (through the head admin supervising the channel) told us they refused our "formal request" for "last minute" additions to the team.
This came as a bit of a shock as we'd agreed to allow Speedi to play for fnatic in carn's absence. As time went on one of the guys we had lined up as a stand-in took it upon himself to join a server with some other guys (basically a mix team) to take on fnatic. This was after we’d been told we weren't allowed last minute additions, thus rendering us paralyzed as far as the game went and unable to play.
This team joined the server under the 4K name, wearing 4K players names, while we were unaware. Our team had gone AFK at this point after we were led to believe the game was off, because we only had 3 players. This "mix" team went on to beat fnatic 16-04 which in it's self was quite an achievement, but unfortunately didn't do us any favors in the process.
About 15 minutes into the game one of our players messaged an admin to alert him to what was going on and that no one from 4K was actually playing, the game continued however.
We'd like to apologize to ESL for the mix-up, we actually played no part in this due to only having three members. The game should/would be awarded a default victory to fnatic, congratulations to fnatic for their victory, and good luck in the latter stages of the league.
Just to make everything clear, no one from 4Kings was playing in the game, anything said or done in that game doesn't rest on the shoulders of Team 4Kings.
aKuJii had this to add:
"Another issue that has been raised is that both of the teams were allowed to play without Aequitas. When 4Kings played against Pentagram online DaY had 20-30fps because of the program and asked if he could play without it, we were told NO and that disqualification would entail should he do it, so rather than play with 4 players we left and defaulted to Pentagram. This pretty much left the whole league in disarray and demotivated us from playing in the league. Then 2mths down the line when aequitas is down they allow not only one but ten players to play without the anti-cheat. Im sorry but it feels very hard to not feel hard done by in this situation when rules are being bent at different situations to suit everyone other than us."
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