The hopes of our four Malaysian cybergamers, who qulified to participate in an international games challenge in Seattle were dashed when U.S embassy here refused to grant them visas!!!!!! The 4 players Rinie Ramli, 20, Sophian Shahirul, a pro-gamer Yan Meng Choon,21, and student Gerard Anand,21 have had to forfeit their sports in their respective games for the WCG 2007 Grand Final, which takes place on Oct 3.

The reason for U.S embassy decision to reject the visa applications was disappointing.

"we provided all our participants with official documents informing the embassy taht they had been invited to participate in the competition." said the malaysian official

Rinie was denied a visa because he is studying medicine in Indonesia....thats rediculous!

Sophian was denied a visa because he was in low-income bracket!!! he was also told that he did not hold sufficient property in this country.....way redicuolus!!!! btw sophian was to compete in the Need For Speed: Carbon game!

Gerard was the only member of his five man Counter-Strike team to be denied a visa. The team is now hurriedly looking for a replacement player!!!!


U.S are so F**ked!!!! u come to other peoples country u say u want to promote democracy,cause war on Iraq and now you want to bring it to Malaysia!!!! sorry im to emo lol


source: from The Star newspaper 29 September 2007

that is sad. Damn. How about replacing thru a Malaysian that is already here ? I know a guy who at least compete in WCG before. Maybe he can play.

Even chief referee also kena reject twice

After 911 incident, US tend to be more strict on these VISA
i don't know it will be so strict until like that

Ask for menteri support on this sure can get Visa

OMG how can like this??? IN2 and Malaysia WCG never do anything to help them ????
Or should M'sia Government do something??? find MCA for help?? Is it possible?

there is nothing wrong with Malaysia. It's their ambassador who was being ....

lol, paulyan oso kena reject? for what reason? zzz, if this is so, he shoulda play with CT in mym pride....

It's a good thing that The Star highlighted the news since we've been discussing about this terrible incident for some time now..

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/521534/

FoRza Missed Seattle Due To Visa Problems
Another Two Bites The Dust
Even A Chief Referee Not Spared From Visa Problem
Team Hybrid: Looking for 5th Member
Auricom's Visa Denied For The Second Time

is it too late to find a replacement for them?
the competition is on 5th right?

in the eyes of US government,

Malaysia = islam country

islam country = terrorist country

We have gud old Bin Laden to thxx for these type of problems, dun blame the US embassy guys, think of how u will

feel if some if some sick bearded Islam Terrorists got on a plane and rammed it into twin towers and killing many of

your dear frens and relatives,

I thot the Muslims (two twins) manage to get themselves the spot, so I don't what's wrong but u seem a lil bit racist to me. And that's what they are concerned about.

Don't blame others if u can't keep up. It's like blaming ur parents for letting u feel the pain of the world (yeah right, I really meant "blaming on that" if u know what I am talking about).

And using "=" to simplify how law works is so childish. I never saw any laws (neither US or Malaysia or wherever) have use that kind of statement for their laws. Ever. So grow up teenagers.

Those twins better behave, the US have jack bauer watching every second of their move after they land in US,

if u get wat i mean,

its true.. if u dont have sufficient property in this country, u will be denied to have the visa.. 1 of my uncle eventually borrowed money from all relative to show his bank actually got alot money n return back once approved

thanks for the racist statement from your PM to me.

I think u will be banned from Lowyat in seconds. I hope u will learn ur lesson. I have a question for you. How old are you ? Kid, i think u are the one who better behave since you will get urself more into trouble because of that. If not the law itself, u will make ur life harder than it should urself.

By the way, I am in the US. I don't see anything wrong here. Stay in school, that's all I gotta say.

just ignore him(synzo)....he alwiz did tat ^^

Too bad his childish behavior already been reported.

no big deal, but the pm i send u was not a racist remark at all, i just call u a bearded islamic terrorists, seeing how u were so pissed by that n defended those terrorists whenever i bring up wat they did in US, really raise my suspicion on wat u really doing in US,

of cause if i wan to make a racist remark, i can owiz call u an incest faggoty babi,

or better yet, i could have make a song named "negarakuku"

This post has been edited by synzo1: Oct 1 2007, 12:43 PM

There is a story behind every story.. Cant blame only one side for everything that already happened..

synzo is F**King retarded....always flame here n there... LOL...honestly i feel pity n sad for synzo...