Wild to miss ESEA Global Challenge LAN due to visa issues

1-12-2018 00:06

Wild will not take part in the upcoming ESEA MDL Season 29 Global Challenge due to visa issues, the tournament's organisers have announced.

The news was received with shock by the players, who took to Twitter to express their disappointment, with Dener "⁠KHTEX⁠" Barchfield lamenting that "a document has the power to kill off a person's dreams".

Wild had qualified for the event after winning ESEA Open Brazil, last week, over Chilean side Rejected. The team, led by former Luminosity player Vinicios "⁠PKL⁠" Coelho, had been looking forward to the challenge to get some experience under their belt before StarSeries i-League Season 7, for which they qualified after winning GAMECON Brasília.

PKL & co ruled out of the ESEA Global Challenge

Replacing Wild at the event will be Vireo.pro, who finished in fourth place in ESEA MDL. The decision has been met with widespread criticism from the Brazilian community, but ESEA explains that "time constraints" and the fact Rejected would also not be able to attend the event forced them to pick a North American replacement.

The ESEA MDL Global Challenge will run from December 7-9 in Dallas, with $50,000 on the line. The team list for the tournament now looks as follows:

that sucks :(

2018-12-01 00:07

6 replies

W7M?

2018-12-01 00:41

5 replies

It is a wild thing to happen, I must agree

2018-12-01 01:36

4 replies

NA the worst place to have sny level of tournament

2018-12-01 03:26

3 replies

Not really just do your paperwork in time and your fine

2018-12-01 11:20

2 replies

Not rly, was a lot of Teams from Turkey,Iran, Mongole, Russia ... which couldnt even with paperwork Its true that in EU is all a lot easier and better to do this things

2018-12-01 14:04

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Iran, and turkey are on everyone’s shit list. They harbor terrorists bro. No one wants them in their countries. As for the others if they have a criminal past yea it’s hard to get in as it should be. They even were denied entry to eu.. it’s not just USA saying no.

2018-12-01 20:01

yeah gl to them

they are better than mibr xD

2018-12-01 00:08

who isn't😂 also fuck you i was already feeling the #1 hahaha

2018-12-01 00:10

true LMAO 😎👍 unlucky but maybe the mod is going to delete my #1 like they always do 🐵👌

2018-12-01 00:11

+1😜

sadd

Sad for them

Excuse me WHAT?

2018-12-01 14:43

wp trump

rip

Suck for Br

Sad :(

vireo.pro vs virtus.pro??

2018-12-01 00:09

Can't wait for that lmao (^_^) btw vp_disband_ffs but fan of vp ? what do you have against vireo ?

2018-12-01 01:25

multimedia.larepublica.pe/342x192/larepu..

2018-12-01 02:42

Virtus.pro vs Vireo.pro pls make it happen

Virtus THROW

2018-12-01 10:17

It calls negligency. He had to see it a long time before. Good to learn, but sad for them :(

He had his visa denied several times by now, there's not really much to say about this one...

2018-12-01 00:47

ez for vireo

OMEGALUL expected from BR CS

2018-12-01 00:12

Shouldve called wild ffs They already had visas

Wild?

2018-12-01 04:38

w7m*

2018-12-01 07:36

ESEA sucks. They did not warn in time for the Chilean team "Rejected" to take out their passport. Although it was a South American qualifier they decided to invite an American team. Unfair...

2018-12-01 00:15

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Totally unfair. The third "W7M" could replace Wild easily.

2018-12-01 01:41

That.

2018-12-01 05:28

??? Why should they take care of their VISAs. That's what team managers should do.

2018-12-01 09:51

I'm not saying that. ESEA invites them too late,bcz of that, Rejected couldnt made their VISA's.

2018-12-01 20:04

still how is that ESEA fault? they have to wait until the first team can confirm that they cant play. they dont wait on purpose.

2018-12-01 20:06

They know that a long time ago. Esea fault is also present inviting an NA team despite of the SA spot

2018-12-01 20:08

+11111

2018-12-01 13:04

esea sucks, why did not called w7m?

2018-12-01 00:17

visa strikes again

SA spot, let's give it to a NA team xdddddddd *esea*

2018-12-01 00:29

Why not Rejected? Visas?

yes =(

2018-12-01 11:15

esea sucks, w7m could replace them!

Vireo.pro and Virtus.pro on the same LAN PogChamp

2018-12-01 00:51

and I'm not sure who finishes higher

Virtus pro does

2018-12-01 05:01

fuck esea in his decision was stupid to give the vacancy to a NA team having a SA fit to replace them (w7m) simply coarse

2018-12-01 00:53

nice london

2018-12-01 14:23

Khtex had his visa rejected cause he is black, at this point it's pretty obvious... the other white players who had their visas rejected were simply to mask the racism. Stay strong dener

2018-12-01 00:55

National security is far more important than video games Have they disclosed why the application was rejected? Could be to do with criminal record

2018-12-01 01:09

The simply answer is no events in NA Had never a visa problem in Germany ( or whole eu ) Btw

2018-12-01 14:07

the EU let in criminals all the time, so... Mr. FBI is too thorough for BR CS, sad

2018-12-01 16:56

is ok, still no argument for a event in na, just problems make it ez in eu

2018-12-01 17:22

EU lets in alot of criminals sadly, but USA already have them in their own country

2018-12-01 22:44

The answer is favelas stop commiting crimes

2018-12-01 22:38

Totally dumbshit decision by fucking ESEA. W7M could replace Wild easily, but no, let´s give the spot for an NA team.

2018-12-01 01:42

VP vs VP pls

2018-12-01 02:09

Why give another spot to NA and not BR or AUS

2018-12-01 02:33

You cant get work visa in less than a day. (Office Opens on monday)

2018-12-01 07:34

oh thought this event was 3 weeks away my bad.

2018-12-01 07:47

W7m players (3rd place) had the visa :(

2018-12-01 10:36

Now vp have 2x chance of winning

2018-12-01 02:34

0*2=0

2018-12-07 10:01

It's time to stop making tournaments on the USA... it's like the 100th time shit like this happens

2018-12-01 03:25

2018-12-01 04:25

Why not add another EU team?

2018-12-01 05:00

ez for NA VP

2018-12-01 05:47

SA team can't attend, invite 4th NA team instead of 2nd SA team, great IQ ESEA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wanna buy the best apples in HLTV? call me NOW: 011-1337-APPLE and get an 80% discount on your first 5 kilos!

2018-12-01 05:48

Its currently weekend, so they would have to wait until monday to get a work visa but it takes time before it gets approved. NA teams dont need visa so thats why there is an NA team

2018-12-01 07:32

W7M (3rd place) said that they were ready and able to play, why give the SA spot to an NA team?

2018-12-01 09:27

Why Vireo.Pro????? Why not a Brazilian Team

2018-12-01 06:25

It is explained in the news.

2018-12-01 06:31

in reality, the news omitted some facts, like 3rd place on the same tournament had everything sorted out to fill the spot, including visas, but it sure makes lots of sense to give it to the 4th of another region wich doesnt even have a 5th on the roster. xD

2018-12-01 11:12

In the end, final decision is up to ESEA which is why they are facing the current criticism.

2018-12-02 01:05

yikes.

2018-12-02 09:03

expected

2018-12-01 07:46

With all these VISA issues happening on a regular basis, I think it's time for all organizers to allow a bit more time for teams to get these things sorted out.

2018-12-01 07:57

Other comments saying that he got denied multiple times so idk doubt that would fix anything.

2018-12-01 10:00

Expected

2018-12-01 08:31

xaxaxaxaxaxaxa

2018-12-01 08:34

EZ FOR VP.

2018-12-01 09:04

Wild's Logo similar AVANGAR

2018-12-01 09:26

First Imperial name and now this. Lost all respect for Bolsonaro.

2018-12-01 10:02

VP wins this

2018-12-01 09:30

2018-12-01 09:42

twitter.com/W7MGaming/status/10686712377.. I saw that statement on twitter, can someone speaking Portuguese sum it up for me?

2018-12-01 09:58

Basically they're saying that they are disappointed with ESEA's decision and will make everything they could to play the tournament

2018-12-01 10:04

2018-12-01 10:11

- SA spot - invites NA Seems nice 👍👌

2018-12-01 10:01

They literally explain it to u... Theres no way if wild didnt get a visa for that much time any other team will get it faster for less time.. Thats why they are "forced" to invite the next in place na team

2018-12-01 10:10

W7M who finished third had all what is needed to play

2018-12-01 10:15

Murica aka lan destroyers.

2018-12-01 10:07

goes to a team without even a fucking 5th

2018-12-01 10:51

Who will replace is going to be an American team? Congratulations, ESEA

2018-12-01 10:52

Can you stop making events in NA? Visa issues all the time ffs

2018-12-01 11:47

Sad. Wild is the best Brazilian team playing in br at this moment

2018-12-01 11:52

Looking forward to the match VP vs VP

2018-12-01 11:55

that's wild

2018-12-01 12:04

Organizers should start checking the visa status of the teams on their qualifiers, we may have less teams on them but at least the winners will travel to events.

2018-12-01 12:25

the best part is comments who say it's ESEA fault 2 top teams in qualifier can't get visas...

2018-12-01 12:27

Exactly, stuff like this does a lot of harm to regions trying to develop their scene. It doesn't matter if they are the best SA team when they can't fly to events and showcase their skills, make room for teams who can do it and improve with the experience.

2018-12-01 12:38

If you want to make this whole thing worse, zNf of Vireo pro will not be able to attend MDL LAN twitter.com/zetNf/status/106860455753256.. So Vireo pro, who stole the South America qualifier spot, will be going with a fucking coach.

2018-12-02 22:33