So, although I didn’t win, I’ve still been checking their message boards to see when the next time they’ll be around might be. Over the past few months, the winners have been asking about travel arrangements to the finals with no response. So two days ago, VGames posted this. Needless to say, many players weren’t happy.

This anger could be seen over in the Soul Calibur Community as well as the Smash Brothers Community. You can go read for yourself, but basically players are attempting to stage some sort of legal action against VGames due to them spending money and winning the tournament but getting nothing in return.

So the lesson to be learned is this: don’t promise free trips to LA and $10,000 in prize money when you’re not sure that you can hack it. Although national video game tournaments are a great idea in my opinion, they obviously need a great management team behind it which the VGames just didn’t have.