Alvar Dürr · @Vardu_
18th Oct 2017 from TwitLonger
Why I'm not in the FEL-league
First of all I want to say, that I have nothing against FEL in general. The Hearthstone scene in Finland definitely needs competition of this kind, I'm grateful that there are people willing to put work into that.
The reason why I'm not playing never came down to a choice of mine. All qualified people were supposed to be sent an email to confirm participation. I never received one. According to some other competitors the email had gone to their spam mail, which in itself is bad enough and contacting those who don't confirm their participation through other mediums should be a given. Unfortunately that was not the case for me, I never even got word of a confirmation being required. On their page FEL had a list of players for the upcoming leafue with my name on it, I supposed that it was confirmation enough. How could I know otherwise.
I can't prove that they didn't send me the email, I find it pointless to talk about that as it is basically my word against theirs. I am just disappointed in the general communication before and after this had come to my attention.
After realizing that I had not been confirmed I immediately contacted an admin. This was before any of the games had started, even before the match schedule had been confirmed. So of course I expected that this would be no problem to fix and I could simply be added to the list of participants. I have no idea how this is even possible, but that is not what happened. All I got told is that it is unfortunately impossible to add me to the competition
I tried to make my thoughts and anger with the situation clear to the admin, but communication was just terrible and from my point of view, unacceptable from an organisation of their caliber. The worst thing about the communication is how it felt like the admin tried to ignore the situation and sweeping it under the rug. I don't want to call out the admin he/she and FEL know who I have been in contct with.
Sorry that this ended up this long but I wanted to make the situation clear to understand and also express how unhappy I am with the situation. I would be happy to play the league if FEL finds a way to add me to the competition. At the very least I expect some compensation, for example still starting the next season without having to start in the challenger league again. Otherwise do not expect to see me playing in competition organized by FEL in the near future.