QUOTE(strife_personified @ Mar 13 2009, 11:39 PM)
i had no idea that was the reason... are you sure? cause at the Asian Championship didn't they recruit a few of the extras for GH3 and VF4?
During last year's Asian Championship, ICM (now WCG Inc.) insisted all countries (not only Malaysia) to send their full squad, regardless of either Xbox was officially launched on their country or national organizer held qualifier for Xbox.
From what I was told (again, FROM WHAT I WAS TOLD, kalau orang tu tipu, me also tipu you la

), our national organizer did approach couple of best GH and VF players around but all of them declined the invitation stating that they invited them too late, which kinda true - around one week before the players depart to Singapore.
I personally already declined the invitation twice - stating that I want to focus on Multiplay's coverage, but when I was asked again at Suntec's entrance on Day 1, I can't decline it anymore since there was nobody around that are available to play - for example, Forza can play GH better than me, but he tied up with NFS.
Personally, the "not officially launch" reason is quite
basi and tired already. Of course, our national organizer view also quite valid - without the launch, they can't obtain 360s for tournaments from Microsoft. Since there will be a lot of 360s involved, it's pretty logical that none of local retailers would dare to provide so many unit with such a huge risks. Not to forget, the games as well as each console must have a disc each unlike PC where the games can all be stored in HDD.
But then, I can give you two examples: Indonesia and Philippines. Xbox was never launched in these two country, but hell, their national organizers are nice enough to have an official qualifier to select players to WCG Asian Championship and yeah, they got their players. Philippines's GH dude is so good that he got Silver medal in the end, over the host which got bronze. So much for official - not official bleh.
And yes, as what Jali told TPK and from my impression for the past few years as well, as long as Microsoft doesn't launch the damn console here, it seems that our national organizer would not send Xbox players either to Grand Finals or Asian Championship with last year as an exemption. That also WCG Inc. insisted and it was in Singapore, not that far. With all due respect to them la, when there is a way, there is a way. I mean come on, Indonesia can do it, why not us?
QUOTE(TPK @ Mar 13 2009, 11:53 PM)
If you ask Chapree and Moots, they were being asked to join GH3 (Chapree) and VF4 (Moots) LAST MINUTE........ while they are already in Singapore!
Moot no la...he went to Singapore from KL with the rest of the team. Minus Kingsurf if i'm not mistaken, since they are in Johor afterall.
Ok, enough with old stories, now back to current one. Wonder when is this 2nd list going to be out.
This post has been edited by chapree: Mar 14 2009, 12:07 AM