15/05/2022
We are extremely heartbroken to share this frustrating experience with our friends, fans, and well-wishers. Recently a qualifying tournament of FIFA was held by some government-sanctioned organizers. They were operating the tournament through a âWhatsAppâ group. Before the month of Ramadan, the tournament completed halfway and the organizers ghosted everyone giving no notice of when it may resume again. Suddenly on May 6th, they announced that the tournament must be completed within May 7th. When asked the reasoning why they are planning to end it on one dayâs notice, the organizers said it was a decision made by a âhigher authorityâ.
Our Fifa player AdorChelsea (the most decorated player in the Bangladesh Fifa community), and his older brother Charchil requested an extension and since the organizers refused to give it, the brothers forfeited the tournament as a protest against the mismanagement of the tournament. No other player from the Fifa community protested and they compromised with this. Now you may say, itâs just bad luck and that they might not have been available the next day to play the tournament, right? Hereâs where the fun part begins.
Later, it turned out that instead of finishing the tournament in one day which they were so adamant about, they decided to pause it again and do it later offline in a venue with 4 final participants. After that infuriating experience, whatâs even worse is that the organizers are spreading rumors that AdorChelsea and his brother got knocked off the tournament after getting beaten in the loserâs bracket which is what we suppose is to hide the organizersâ sheer incompetence to run a tournament.
We, MercenarieZ, strongly condemn this kind of defamation of our players and we also protest against the horrible mismanagement of the organizers. Bangladesh has a huge prospect in Esports with so many brilliant minds and players across the different genres of games. But if we continue to let incompetent people organize important tournaments, the sector will fall apart before it gets a chance to begin.