D2CL: Alliance results nullified *UPDATE*

The final decision is: Alliance is disqualified from the tournament, results of all previous matches involving Alliance are being nullified.

Here are the reasons why I am not going to change my decision:

1. We can't reschedule this match simply because both Fnatic and Alliance have already used their wildcards. You are saying that nullifying all the results is disrespectful to other teams. Didn't you think that it would be disrespectful to the teams who got def loses for not being able to reschedule the matches? Please ask Na`Vi or VP for example if they will be happy about us giving other teams additional Wildcards for no reason.

2. October 13th is the last day when we can play the group stage matches. We can't wait any day longer because if we extend our online stage deadlines some of the CIS teams won't have enough time to make visas to the Bucharest.

3. You are saying that we will negatively affect the overall result if we nullify all the [A] matches. But this is obvious, that if we will give Fnatic and VP 2:0 wins, another teams who had 1:1 vs. Alliance and who can't speak their opinion right now will be in a position even worse than you losing your 2 points because of re-calculation.

4. Here are the rules of the tournament, you agreed to follow them when accepted D2CL invitation:
"When a team gets 20 penalty points, it loses 1 point. After getting 40 penalty points, the team is disqualified and the results of its matches are nullified."

Tonight at D2CL Season 4 the last two matches of The Alliance were due to be played. Unfortunately, The Alliance could not participate in these matches and therefore were disqualified from the tournament. Also, all results of previously played matches featuring The Alliance were nullified. You can find the official statement of D2CL below.

Several days ago The Alliance asked D2CL administration to postpone both remaining matches (vs Fnatic and Virtus.pro) to October, 14th. D2CL could not agree to that for several reasons: The Alliance not having a wildcard available (it was used earlier for the match against Virtus.pro which was originally scheduled for September, 30th) and the beginning of play-off stage, scheduled for October, 14th. LAN-finals start pretty soon and some teams need to make visas to get to Bucharest, and therefore play-off stage can not be delayed. The Alliance management was informed about this.

During the last several days D2CL administration had tried to understand if The Alliance would have been able to play on October, 7th. Today, 30 minutes prior to the game start, The Alliance management told D2CL that the team will not be able to play against Fnatic but will play against Virtus.pro, and did not answer any questions about this. Later one of The Alliance players overturned the words of team management and stated that his team will forfeit both matches.

According to league rules, a team is punished with 15 Penalty Points for refusing to play a match. Therefore, The Alliance receive 60 Penalty Points and are disqualified from the league (clause 4.3) and all their current results in Season 4 are nullified. It was the most hard, though the only right decision, which meet the sport standards and allow to put everyone in equal terms.

D2CL administration would like to apologize for an inaccuracy in league rules which stated that a team gets 15 Penalty Points for a whole Best of 2 match, but not for each map. The earlier occurred situation with Natus Vincere getting 15 Penalty Points for refusing to play Map 2 against Cloud9 is by the numbers with league rules.