He will at least get another chance to use the right regions
The transition to virtually all fighting games tournaments hosted online over the past year has brought with it quite a few growing pains that can lead to headaches and unfortunate situations, although this is probably the worst fear of any player.
During an intense final presented today on the Smash World Tour Oceania Online Qualifier, one of the players was eventually disqualified after a repair of the bracket due to internet problems.
FURY | RaZe fought his way to the winner of the grand final with his extraordinary use of Dark Pit and Link, where he GG | Kinaji would dare to determine everything.
Chinaji’s Snake was pretty quickly a literal minefield of explosions, which resulted in them taking the first two games in a narrow way, thanks to excellent grenade drops and baits around them.
However, the lead would fade away as RaZe started to adapt and Kinaji had to force to start after him after gaining a share early in the remaining games.
Game five comes down to the last stock, where a double clever list trap would seal the hook set for Kinaji as they planted grenades in the recovery zone.
Congratulations to @ kinaji7 for winning the Oceania Ultimate Online Qualifier! # SWT2021 🏆 pic.twitter.com/A7bwwSiKP8
– Smash World Tour (@SmashWorldTour) 21 March 2021
RaZe looked the explosive back at the soldier who was working, but Kinaji had already sent a serve that came at exactly the right time to end the set.
The next round of games wanted to start completely differently from what Chinaji turned down from Snake in favor of Shulk, but RaZe seemed to be in everything.
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That is until the game froze and it turned out that RaZe’s internet went down at the worst possible moment.
Organizers gave the player about 10 minutes to return to the foyer, but they unfortunately had to call it and end the tournament with a disqualification – according to reports just when RaZe’s internet was back online.
My net died during the grand finale and it came back seconds after I was already DQd. I’m really sad 🙁
– FURY | RaZe (@RaZe_SSB) 21 March 2021
Shortly afterwards, he took to Twitter to express his disappointment with the results.
Kinaji chatted during the DQ in the Twitch chat, saying he felt he was not really winning, but RaZe congratulated his opponent and complimented his skill.
What is fortunate in all this is that RaZe was already qualified to join the right region for Oceania, and his loss mostly led to him getting a lower position than Kinaji.
The regional finals are where the Smash World Tour will actually start making payouts, and the world finals offer a whopping $ 150,000 prize pool.
As we continue to navigate the evolving path of online events, problems like these will be inevitable, but something like this in the grand finale will hopefully be extraordinarily rare.