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Blogs \ ESWC '08 - wheres my visa
carnifex @ 5th November 2007 10:43.
ESWC '08 - wheres my visa (Updated: 5th November 2007 10:44)
The ESWC left their homecountry where the event took place for five years, France, in order to host their sixth event in San Francisco, USA. The first thing that came into my mind was, that SF has been the first city outside Korea that the WCG hosted their event in.

The second but way more important thought has been: "Damn, it's in the USA again!"
Don't get me wrong, it's not because it's the USA itself, I'm not an "anti USA" freak or something. It's was just because of the little thing called "visa" and the big problems that appeared for Asian (Chinese) and people from eastern Europe (Urkaine, Russia, Bulgaria, ...) because of it. Events in the USA unfortunately have always had such issues, not giving out visa to qualified players. There have been so many players missing events in the USA because of this and I have been really happy that the next WCG do not take place in the US (and even more happy that they are in Germany for some obvious reason).

Now the ESWC are going to the USA and visa problems will come up for sure. Okay, there are visa problems coming up in other countries aswell and the WCG in Germany may also have them, but I think that those issues are happening at US events more often than anywhere else.

Why do the ESWC go to San Francisco and not choose a country where it's not that hard to get a visa for players? The reason might be easy: The US marked is hudge and the ESWC might earn a lot of money there, who cares if 3-10 people can't go to the event although they are qualified? The sport isn't the most important thing, the money is!

It's not that important to have every qualified player participating, it's not important if there might be some favourites missing due to visa problems. The money solves, and there will be enough other favourites who still make the event interesting. It's sad in my opinion, but to me it's obvious.

Hopefully there won't be too much players missing ESWC, and hopefully the tournament organisations will finally learn their lessons if there will again several players be missing the event due to not getting a visa.
 


1 year ago
#1 Entropy 16
part of the problem too is the lack of recognition e-sports has as a legitimate sport.. if we had been talking about basketball or soccer stars, the visa issue would be a little less problematic, another problem is lack of planning - them visas are hard to get with short notices.. anyway regardless, you are right.
 

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