Well today is June 1st and nobody has gotten the email yet. Gfinity does not seem to be the the kind of organization that likes to give information to people. One of my teammates actually told me that the host for his last race didn’t even know that she needed a visa until like literally a couple days ago and had to rush to a French embassy to get one. Seems something kind of important to tell your employees.
Interestingly enough, I also heard that the NYC invitational was pretty much 95% Turn 10’s doing; Gfinity had little to do with it in terms of organizing it. So that tells me that this is a Gfinity problem. It clearly is not an organization that cares about its employees, nor the players in its tournaments.
While it sucks we have not received anything yet, I am kind of relieved to hear that no one has got anything yet because that means we are all in the same boat and no one is technically getting left behind.
Let’s do this guys, I will post here as soon as I get something and if you guys get something, make sure to post it as well and let us know!
As for the organization, from experience in past events, usually everything related to travel is pretty rushed, so this is not surprising yet. They usually only give us three days notice. That means that tomorrow we should be getting something hopefully.
Hm… I think US requires P1 VISA for non-US citizens to be able to participate e-sports league. France recognized e-sports as a legal activity last year, but there is no clarification on what VISA is needed for foreigner. I wonder how they can handle tax reporting (from cash prize) if a player visits with VISA waiver program which usually forbids any commercial activity.
Swerve, your invite is legit. It may not be easily apparent from leaderboards because Rivals qualification takes priority over Race qualification, meaning lower rankings get bumped up into a qualifying spot.