I was reading the comments from the CPL Brazil Q3 results newspost (http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=1252739) and it makes me sad to see reactions like "Brazil is the wrong country to choose", "Brazilian scene is a 10 man scene", "feels like taking democracy to the wrong country" from you guys. It is expected as nothing has been explained as of yet. There are far more than 10 players in our scene :P. In fact wasn't for met, ryu, imortal and agu, NONE of the other top players (at least other 10 in the same high level) attended the event.

The main problem wasn't lack of interest, it was lack of antecipation, divulgation and information (!) from the CPL Brazil organization. The "official" website had NOTHING but that pretty q3 logo image to show.. no dates.. no venue.. no hosting details.. nothing. People sent various e-mails but got no answers at all (including me, twice).

Then they suddenly (2 days before the event) announced some information, not in official website, but in community news websites, with the Q3 tourney to be played on THURSDAY AND FRIDAY.

Now, i don't know but i think they got way too used with the CS scene. Quake players (specially in Brazil) are people from 20-30 years old, who study and work and can't unschedule their appointments with only 2 days in antecipation.

In my case for example, despite the fact i knew it was going to be 15-19/November, i'm in the final year of medical school and i can't just skip classes or something :P i have responsabilities and i needed confirmation of DAYS some weeks prior so i could change shifts accordingly.

This has happened to a lot of good players. I'm not saying there would be 128 players in the competition, but we could easily fill 32 places with average-good players.

Its a shame, yes =(. I keep thinking we brought this upon us as no one steped up to take place in the organization and let things be runned by people with no contact with the quake scene at all. At least we had a tourney, with good prizes (for our standards), props for that..

This fact will degenerate the Brazilian scene image internationally, no doubt about it.. and it will hurt our chances of having a Brazilian stop for the next year's WT.

PS: I forgot to mention that ridiculous troll-flamming-like post the CPL organizers posted on the official brazilian site announcing their disappointment with the lack of "PROFESSIONALISM" from the quake comunity. Talk about it eh?