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🚨DALLAS RECAP🚨 Likely the most eventful weekend of my life. It's gonna be a long and serious post eversone should read if they care about this game. If you want the drama, skip to chapter 2. Chapter 1, We are starting off with the most important aspect of this weekend: The People. Coming to America for the first time was a bit scary initially, but so many people made it a very worthwhile experience. @SunZacky being my absolute goat, helping get settled and threating me like a brother, to everyone else from our discord and me stealing @ImAzireTCG's charger🤣 Where are my Pickle something something flavored cheetos?? @RaidenRTY Another big s/o to everyone that welcomed me to the 3v3 Invitational, especially @trysoju for thinking about me when planning it all <3 meeting so many new people/friends as well as my cope goat @HiThereJosh, congratz on your first T64❤️ Europe has your serial! #freeDrago Chapter 2: @PlayTCGOfficial The Main Event, BCF Dallas had a lot of ups and downs. I was very lucky to meet a lot of great people and opponents as well as getting lucky do to well, winning a Law, an EGB "Win" and another T64 Ace on Sunday. But thats about all of the positive things I can say about the event itself. If @sormiltcg was the Event Manager of PlayTCG, i wouldn't be surprised. I understand running an ~5k people event is not an easy task, I dont mind delays and a few hick ups here and there, EU was like that, but we managed to finish it, as planned, without too much of an issue. I'll adress this in even more detail in an videos recapping the entire weekend, but this event felt like it was organized on the fly. Finals on Friday, 12pm Start on Saturday, 6:30pm start EGB/TC, when they KNOW they have to close at 11. Hosting a tourament for the sake of hosting a tournament, not to create an competitive enviroment. 7 Rounds, no real winner. I was the lucky one to "Win" such an Event, but it didnt feel very much like it. The worst was yet to come. Chapter 3: Prize Pick Up / Dallas After Registration on Friday, rumors about people getting robbed, held at gunpoint even, started spreading. This is of course not PlayTCGs fault, but for those who saw the Fake/Giant Flame Flame Fruit, it was acknowledged and accounted for. After Saturdays events finished at around 11, people started to get a little bit nervous after PlayTCG forced top 8 to pick up pricing that day. People started joking about us being jumped. This is an absolute safety issue for everyone involved. I was genuinely adraid and concered about my safety. After about an hour of making us run from one place to another and forming multiple different lines, they made us sit down, cause they hadnt even prepared and packed pricing yet🤣 At this point they offered us to collect it the morning of. This wasnt a decision made for our safety, it was to their convinience. At this point everyone was gone and us taking our pricing or not, the outside wouldnt know so the risk is the same. Basically everyone stayed. Nobody wouldve if we had this option to begin with. Some more bad orga stuff happend, but 1:30-2am ish we left the venue, escorted by multiple police officers each. Them escorting us for 20 Meters isnt going to make this any more safe. I dont think i've felt this unwell mx entire life. I was warned Play wasnt doing great in the past, there are a lot more things little things to be annoyed about (Flame Flame Topcut Round on Saturday, no Infos about Sign Ups for Sunday etc.), but I genuinely hope this event doesn't go unnoticed, people will speak and @BandaiNamcoEU @ONEPIECE_tcg_EN will listen. We cannot have this repeat itself, PlayTCG has clearly failed on all ends possible and shouldnt be trusted to host events on this scale again. Thank you for reading. Thank you for everyone who made this event not the worst experience ever.