Nikola Lobanjica Mijomanovich told about the massive number of problems of Asian RMR for BLAST.tv Paris Major.
A player of Twisted Minds, who took fourth place at the Asian RMR, released a long post in which he told about the huge number of BLAST problems at the tournament.
BLAST managed the event
News about problems at the Asian and American RMR tournaments began to appear almost from the first day of these events. And then this could be explained by the fact that BLAST used other tournament operators to outsource the event. In the case of Asia, this TO became MESA. However, Lobanjica said the opposite.
According to him, the main administrators of Asian RMR were BLAST, and MESA employees were unpaid volunteers. Oddly enough, only the MESA administrators behaved well with the players. BLAST admins rather gave orders that players had to follow.
BLAST admins were super rude and annoying, and didn't treat players with respect, when MESA admins were super polite, helpful, brought us food, asked if we needed drinks, and, if we did something wrong, politely warned us and talked to us, as with ordinary people. When it came to BLAST employees, they seemed to be talking to dogs and commanding us as if we were nothing and nobody.Nikola Lobanjica Mijomanovych
As a result, the Twisted Minds team decided to pay the MESA administrators themselves after the event.
Lots of technical problems
Not a single prestigious tournament had as many technical problems as the players saw at the Asian RMR. It is worth starting with the fact that the players did not have a separate day for setting up, and in the end, they generally had to set up anew every day because the administrators deleted the configs from the computers.
In addition, problems with computers appear every day. Each game was played with 5-10% packet loss. Sometimes, you couldn't hear flash drives exploding. And on the last day, all the computers of Twisted Minds suddenly went wrong, and the FPS dropped, and even the sprays felt different.
Also, the Internet worked on all computers until the last day, which is unacceptable in LAN tournaments.
COVID and security issues
There was no security work at the tournament at all.
On one of the first days of the tournament, a fan who asked to take a picture and chat entered the Twisted Minds lobby without any problems. The players, of course, were not against it and rested together with the fan. After that, the BLAST admins accused the team of inviting fans to the front room, although Twisted Minds were not at all to blame.
After that, the team saw a man waiting for Lobanjica with a knife near the hotel. The team asked for security, and the organizers placed a 160 cm tall and 50 kg security guard near the Twisted Minds room. And this was the only guard for the entire hotel. There was no guard in the other rooms.
In the end, Twisted Minds learned from the managers of the other teams that several players had COVID-19. Not a single organizer said this; the only thing the BLAST admins recommended is wearing masks. However, when asked directly about COVID, the answer was negative. As a result, two Twisted Minds players got sick.
Thus, BLAST failed to manage RMR outside of Europe and ultimately failed to justify Valve's trust. This will undermine the reputation of BLAST, and if something like this happens at a Major, then BLAST will definitely no longer receive the right to hold a Valve tournament.
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