{"id":92251,"date":"2019-04-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/04\/bureaucratic_blunder_means_russian_smash_bros_team_misses_euro_tournament"},"modified":"2019-04-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T12:00:00","slug":"bureaucratic-blunder-means-russian-smash-bros-team-misses-euro-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/19\/bureaucratic-blunder-means-russian-smash-bros-team-misses-euro-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Bureaucratic Blunder Means Russian Smash Bros. Team Misses Euro Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There will be a one team less at the upcoming Super Smash Bros. Ultimate European Smash Ball Team Cup \u2014 and it\u2019s just because of a paperwork. Nintendo of Europe has announced<\/a> that, due to \u201cvisa issues\u201d, Ye Old Guard team from Russia will stay at home during the Amsterdam finals on June 8th.<\/p>\n

The Russian branch, Nintendo RU, released an expanded statement on its web site<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Due to bureaucratic reasons Nintendo has no control over, it takes longer than usual to issue visas in the run-up to the Russian national holidays. Due to that, Russian team won\u2019t be able to attend the event in Amsterdam. The scope of the event and logistical issues do not allow postponing the event or letting Ye Olde Guard play online with teams in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The holidays in question will begin on May 1st and will leave Russia with only three work days till May 13th, so it\u2019s only reasonable to expect the visa offices to be under a heavy load. The smart move was to prepare documents in advance, and that\u2019s exactly what wasn\u2019t<\/em> done \u2014 reportedly, because of Nintendo RU.<\/p>\n

In a mean-tempered post on GameMag<\/a> forums, Ye Olde Guard\u2019s David Oganesyan describes Nintendo\u2019s local office as a \u201cbunch of incompetent folks\u201d and describes details of the situation:<\/p>\n

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They decided to process visas by themselves. Eventually, they decided to file an application at the very latest moment before the May holidays. Before that, we\u2019ve been sending them all required documents and forms almost daily. As a result, it\u2019s no longer reasonable to visit the embassy, and the closest time one can book an appointment to the visa office is April 26th.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Later, he followed by saying Nintendo RU and Ye Olde Guard have settled on compensation prizes: a Nintendo Switch for each member of a team. Talking to Nintendo Life, David said his second Switch will go to his brother, and the team is on good terms with Nintendo RU despite \u201cthe huge blunder on their part.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s sad to see a contender missing the finals for a reason as mundane as documents not filed at the right time \u2014 and by the organizer of a regional event, too. We hope Nintendo RU won\u2019t have to negotiate with disgruntled champions in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There will be a one team less at the upcoming Super Smash Bros. Ultimate European Smash Ball Team Cup \u2014 and it\u2019s just because of a paperwork. Nintendo of Europe has announced that, due to \u201cvisa issues\u201d, Ye Old Guard team from Russia will stay at home during the Amsterdam finals on June 8th. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}