SEA not gonna play on Masters LAN

Hello there everyone, here I wanted to share some story about our experience. First of all I wanted to say sorry that we "Wolfpack" can't represent our beloved SEA region at the upcoming Masters LAN event that is being held on 18-20 May in the US.



As u guys know that we "Wolfpack" won the PGS Phase 7 (March) and got a spot at the Masters LAN event, so here's the story:



After 1 week from the finals we get in touch with Hi-Rez, and they said that we need to complete all the necessary documents for the event, some of it are the Passports and Visas. Luckily 3 of our members already have their Visa (Muxt,Asura,Slickie) actually it was 4 but mine was already expired back in March so i need to make a new one again.



So in week 2 of April, Me and Feezlefeez are getting all of our required documents for the Visa and already paid the Visa fees, but unluckily after we submit, the earliest interview schedule that available is on May 2nd due to many people that are submitting for the Visa and the embassy only have 100 slot per day.



By week 4 of April exactly on 25 April we got a shocking email from Hi-Rez, they said that we need to submit our Visa before the end of the month, which was only 5 days away. We tried all kinds of attempt to manage to get through on this, we talk to them if we could get some more time cause the interview are on May 2, and they said ok they still working on it.



For me, I need to fly out to the capital to go to the embassy since i was living in another side of my country, If you're Indonesia u would be aware of this.

So the story continue, we still insist that we can make it, by the 1st of May i flew out to the capital and go through with my interview on May 2nd after 3 hours of progress our Visa has been approved, by the night we submit to Hi-Rez and here's what they replied

Hi KreamZ,

Unfortunately due to LAN being in two weeks, the Admin team has decided that there is no way that your team can "PARTICIPATE" in the LAN event due to the Visa issue.

We need to make sure that you can attend at least three weeks prior to the event to ensure that the visa gets approved and that we have your attendance for the LAN



After all the hardwork and the commitment that we did, that's what the reply was. Did it hurt us? Am I mad? Am I disappointed? You guys know the answer, just for u guys that doesn't know my country (Indonesia) kinda lil bit difficult to apply for the US Visa, and the fee is not lil too ($160) different from other country,

as for the example Muxt told me that Singaporean only need 1 day to make a us visa and the fees are lower ($14). As for the damage cost us it was around thousands of dollars since for me i need to booked my roundtrip flight from my hometown to the capitol not just that i need to pay for my lodging and meals as well.

For my other mates they do pay for their own too, also for our needed there u name it jerseys and stuff we do prepare and already pay for it as u know that were not a big Esports team nor do we have sponsor like em, so all of cost we pay directly from our pocket.

We just asking for a plus 2 days from ur deadline, if u wanna compare from the previous event HRX (January) that I being able to attend we're submitting our visa at 27 December and the depart is 31 December it was 4 days before the depart date, how come we can't submit on 2 May since the event was in may 18.

Anyway there's nothing we can do about this so, yeah.

By the way take note that all this words are not come from my team it was my personal experience that i want to share with u guys, so the question is are we "Wolfpack" quitting paladins, do we surrender? The answer is NO, we still here, we will compete, we will fight till one day we can prove that we SEA are not a scumbag server that you can play around

keep play, never surrender, see u guys in the realm!

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