> we communicated that we did not believe they would be able to play both events and make it to Dallas in time for the start of the tournament.
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> That travel plan is not ideal for any party involved, but after evaluating this information, we are **ALLOWING** teams to play in both events.
One of the reasons I don’t see people in here talking about these stuff is because it gets buried to be honest. I can’t remember seeing an ESL statements being discussed all that much for whatever reason. And I myself would not go out my way searching for it. So at the end of the day, thanks Richard for bringing this shit up.
Edit: there is only one post regarding this statement 18 days ago.
What’s wrong with PGL? Why do ESL and Blast, according to RL, dislike PGL?
saintedplacebo
Lol i can imagine valve actually getting really upset if they found out that a TO was essentially fixing the VRS by telling teams which events they were allowed to go to. The entire point of the forced inv system is to not allow TOs to pick and choose teams for events, so ESL’s work around is just forcing a team to decline invites so that you still can get your pseudo franchise shit. This is one of the rare instances where if it continues that i think daddy valve will get his belt.
DuckSwagington
I know it won’t happen but Valve should start threatening ESL with revoking their TO license when they’re doing this kind of shit. Not giving them a Major is just a slap on the wrist.
Playful-Advantage619
How do you people fall for this shit every time?
This whole video and the comments about it are like clickbait journalism. You imagine it will be about ESL banning people from going to PGL events and really it’s about ESL telling people they are allowed to miss media day and potentially day 1 of their lan to play a PGL event, and you guys are mad that they said “allow” instead of saying “teams have the god given right to not do media obligations and get flights 25 minutes before their matches start and we graciously accept all who choose to fuck up our event to do so”.
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That part where ESLs statement says
> we communicated that we did not believe they would be able to play both events and make it to Dallas in time for the start of the tournament.
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> […]
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> That travel plan is not ideal for any party involved, but after evaluating this information, we are **ALLOWING** teams to play in both events.
Is absolutely hilarious.
Here is the source again for anyone to have a laugh https://pro.eslgaming.com/tour/2025/03/astana-to-dallas/
One of the reasons I don’t see people in here talking about these stuff is because it gets buried to be honest. I can’t remember seeing an ESL statements being discussed all that much for whatever reason. And I myself would not go out my way searching for it. So at the end of the day, thanks Richard for bringing this shit up.
Edit: there is only one post regarding this statement 18 days ago.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/s/cYt6jXdQ1z
I guess no one opened it up to read :sadge:
Let’s start the countdown until this gets deleted
Least biased richard lewis video
What’s wrong with PGL? Why do ESL and Blast, according to RL, dislike PGL?
Lol i can imagine valve actually getting really upset if they found out that a TO was essentially fixing the VRS by telling teams which events they were allowed to go to. The entire point of the forced inv system is to not allow TOs to pick and choose teams for events, so ESL’s work around is just forcing a team to decline invites so that you still can get your pseudo franchise shit. This is one of the rare instances where if it continues that i think daddy valve will get his belt.
I know it won’t happen but Valve should start threatening ESL with revoking their TO license when they’re doing this kind of shit. Not giving them a Major is just a slap on the wrist.
How do you people fall for this shit every time?
This whole video and the comments about it are like clickbait journalism. You imagine it will be about ESL banning people from going to PGL events and really it’s about ESL telling people they are allowed to miss media day and potentially day 1 of their lan to play a PGL event, and you guys are mad that they said “allow” instead of saying “teams have the god given right to not do media obligations and get flights 25 minutes before their matches start and we graciously accept all who choose to fuck up our event to do so”.