Seeing a lot of confusion and comments about our forfeit last night, so hopefully this clears up some of the comments. The region "Asia" is where we are forced to play, based on our nationalities. The region includes Australia as well as all the Asian countries. The qualifier for Beijing and others is online. They use only Asian Servers No Australian Servers are in the Server Pool. 80% of Australia live on the east coast (Sydney, Melbourne etc). The ping from these Eastern Cities to the closest Asia Server (Singapore) is about 110ms. It's 8hrs by plane. This is why historically we dont play the qualifiers, its very hard to beat Tyloo/Lynn Vision etc on fair conditions, impossible to beat them on 110ms. With VRS on the line, its crazy to accept. However there is 1 city in Australia where we can play on a reasonable ping (50ms). This is Perth. This is on the other side of Australia. We took flights of 4-6hrs to fly to Perth. Yes we fly 4-6hrs to play an Online Qual (Further than flying LA to Miami or flying London to Moscow) and still get 50ms when we arrive. We found a venue that has very good internet, both in speed/redundancy/routing. We were playing the qual from Perth on 50ms. Tyloo had 55ms - so this should of been nearly perfect (50 vs 55) and a great game for the fans to see. However the physical connection from Perth to Asia breaks. Flying 7 people, renting the venue and accommodating 7 people isn't free. It will cost us around 15k USD to play an online qual on 50ms. If we dont pay, we dont play and miss the events. All the other Asia teams can play from Home. This was our choice, we wanted to give it a go, as i said we usually decline all invites because of the cost/risk. This ended with us forfeiting the cost, the VRS and the chance to qualify. It is what it is, maybe we will try again next year!