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AINC 2009 CANCELLED
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29-05-2009 09:52pm

News has just surfaced that Anything Interactive National Cup (AINC) 2009 has been cancelled.

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According to the leaked information below, it would seem like AI have gone bankrupt.

AI have officially closed their doors and issued a press release on their website stating that The Anything Interactive National Cup will not run for 2009.

Update #1: To the teams that have already booked accommodation or made travel arrangements, please do not cancel them.

Update #2: DICE in conjunction with other leaders within the community will be meet tomorrow, Saturday, to discuss and work through the problem we're facing. At present, a substitute national event is on the drawing board and will be the main topic of discussion tomorrow. Perth's Qualifier will still run this Sunday as no financial arrangements have been changed for them.

DICE will post updates as more information comes to hand.

http://www.anythinginteractive.com/

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 29/05/09 09:54pm
gg right there.
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 29/05/09 09:54pm
wtf
3. 
 29/05/09 09:54pm
so BaD
4. 
 29/05/09 09:54pm
thats so shit. pnpoo can't even play at wcg either. brb killing myself
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 29/05/09 09:56pm
"Cameron "Camstar" Rambert will be independantly running an event during the date of AINC for those who will be in Melbourne during this period."

So this is like a nats run independently?
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 29/05/09 09:56pm
lol so no autoberths etc

just a comp in melb for people already booked flights or going or something?

meh, if they couldn't run it so be it. hopefully rego costs and prizes will be distributed fairly.
7. 
 29/05/09 09:59pm
i was saving actual wins for WCG anyway all good
8. 
 29/05/09 10:01pm
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For those still wondering if this is real - yes it is, I've confirmed this with AI
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 29/05/09 10:06pm
The announcement has gone live on AI's home page:

http://www.anythinginteractive.com/
10. 
 29/05/09 10:16pm
gg
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 29/05/09 11:23pm
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really fkn bad but obviously there was no other choice otherwise they would have taken it.

wonder what will happen to people who have already booked flights from invites/autoberths, people who booked flights to come down to spec (alot of CSS'ers did afaik), people who paid money to play in qualifiers ($30 ea is not cheap) to win 'nothing', people who flew interstate (or are about to) for qualifiers, money left over from rego fees / autoberths not yet 'paid' (such as melb qual rego money + interstate rego money if autoberth flights werent booked yet) the list goes on.. hopefully as much as possible of it gets sorted caus this really fks around a whole lot of people... damn shame oh well :(
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 29/05/09 11:30pm
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also really not sure how they couldnt have run it, just with $0 prize money for both games - both events probably would have been able to break even entirely off rego fees (considering no autoberths offered in melb they would have had a fair bit to spare id imagine), but even if they were a bit down it would have been able to be covered by the probably $2,000-$3,000 they would have gotten from the CSS LCC. would have been alot better than just cancelling the event and screwing over alot of people - im pretty sure there would have only been 1-2 teams max that would have actually been going for the (rather small) prize purse...

now you dozens of teams/players all across australia who forked out $30 - $60 ea to win nothing, and in alot of cases be down several hundred dollars as many would have already booked flights etc in advanced... what a waste
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 29/05/09 11:58pm
wow how did it come to this...
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 30/05/09 12:33am
LOL DAVE did you just copy paste both posts in esau and dice?
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 30/05/09 12:55am
dave is a multi-tasker.
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 30/05/09 01:02am
yeh i just copy/pasted, cbf'd
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 30/05/09 10:16am
Oh man fucking lucky we hadn't booked our flights roflz
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 30/05/09 12:46pm
sounds good, hopefully the talks go through and are successful...maybe it will be pushed to a more suitable date too so that it will help out the qlders abit :D! GL!!
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 30/05/09 04:30pm
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nvm
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 01/06/09 11:23pm
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