FPL Qualifier issues

Hey, just thought I'd share something regarding the FPL qualifier, which has been running my mind since yesterday.

This is the first FPL qualifier I have ever attended and there are some things, that definitely needs to be addressed.

I'm not sure if I was simply lucky, but there were good players in this qualifier struggling to get over 50 points, simply due to the unlucky queues of players and the immense skillgap there is between the players.

Besides that, I was lucky enough to had made it to the top 3, just short of qualifying for FPL, which I will take with me to the next qualifier, but the way I lost it leaves me short on words.

In this period you create many friends and a few enemies depending on your journey in FPL qualifier hell, and I had a few I was unfond of, simply cause of the lack of seriousity in their games.

I was ahead of the guy named shadow1 who made 2nd place, by 2 wins at about midnight, 2 hours short of the qualifier ending, and some of my friends that were playing versus/with shadow, were telling me strange things. Allegedly, a player on the opposing team had been skyping with someone on shadow' team telling him where everyone were on the map, and what to do laterounds. Now this was all speculation at that point, and I thought of course no one would do that, but after that game the player who was said to have been skyping with the opposer, said in the room I was in on teamspeak, that he was going to throw so shadow1 could win. Which made me really worried, cause now I was only 1 win ahead of shadow1. Watching the GOTV of the match he played vs shadow1, he was deagling and awping every round and rushing either B or Long A, laughing when he died on ts3, constantly saying he was going to throw, alongside his swedish friend. So now 2 swedes were throwing on the opposing team of shadow1, in order to make him 2nd place.

Now I was behind, and the clock was 1:30 am, so surely I could make it into a game before 2 am, and destroy these kids, who've been throwing and ghosting for their fellow swede, right?

Before the queue popped, the alleged ghoster said in teamspeak "Shadow, you should join the queue, and veto at last secound, and dodge the game, wasting time so he can't get another game, haha".

Which was the nail in the coffin, after the queue popped, I had a insanely good team, ready to win the FPL qualifier, but that game was unfortunately dodged. Now it's 1:45 am, and I face shadow in the queue, but as his friend had said earlier, shadow did everything his friend had said, and by the time he had dodged it was 1:59 am and no queue popped before 2 am, making shadow 2nd place.

I sincerely hope he feels bad about his way of winning the FPL qualifier, but I hope more for faceit to strike down on it, so it doesn't happen to anyone else in the future.

Thanks for reading this through, and really this is mostly for me to vent my frustrations.



TL;DR: People threw, ghosted and dodged games in order to help their friend win FPL qualifier.

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