The bustling town of Mildura in Victoria’s beautiful north-west region has been left red faced today after Intel Extreme Masters chose the slightly bigger city of Melbourne to host Australia’s biggest gaming tournament going forward.

Mildura residents took to the only road that runs through town to protest the decision, claiming that there was a lot of corruption surrounding the decision.

Nearly 10,000 of the towns 30,000 population marched down the street demanding organisers explain why Melbourne got the nod over the citrus fruit producing town.

When asked why they were marching instead of contacting IEM organisers directly, one resident explained that no one could get enough reception to get on Twitter and express their outrage.

“This is outrageous, it’s unfair,” yelled one protestor. “They obviously haven’t heard we hosted Triple J’s One Night Stand in 2014!”

While organisers claim they were forced to overlook the town due to a lack of suitable local infrastructure, the Mildura mayor has rubbished the claim.

“As far as infrastructure goes, we’re sorted,” he told Aimbot Media. “We have the half size Olympic swimming pool at the local school empty already due to water restrictions which can be used as a gaming floor.”

“Plus several local residents were prepared to offer their N300 routers to create a solid network.”

Tournament officials have offered a compromise to hold a Team Fortress 2 tournament in the town next year, however the town has declined, asking if the organisers thought the year was still 2009.

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