Intel Extreme Masters China forced to cancel
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The unrest is over the Japanese government's decision to nationalize the gas-rich Senkaku Islands off the coast of China in the East China Sea. The nationalization was through a purchase of the islands from their private owner in Japan on September 10th. The Chinese government objected and promised "serious consequences" if the Japanese government did not stop the purchase of said islands.
The unrest in China over the proclamation by the Japanese government is not likely to die down in the coming weeks. Therefore it the shutdown was in the best interest for the safety of ACG, IEM, and the people traveling to the event.
Michal 'Carmac' Blicharz, ESL's Director of Pro Gaming, issued the following statement:
"We were all looking forward to going to China yet again as last year's tournament in Guangzhou, at the same venue, was a great success for us. Fans from all over the world surely remember...the first ever encounter between Western League of Legends teams and their Chinese counterparts."
Blicharz also announced that IEM will be announcing another tournament for Asia in the near future.
Teams that qualified and already booked their travel will be compensated by IEM. The teams that had qualified included:
- Team Dynamic
- Team Immunity (Australia)
- Meet Your Makers
- Monomaniac Ferus
[Source: Leaguepedia]
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 floasher Posts: 1 Joined: 2012-07-22 IGN: floasher on NA |
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This is sad. |
 Johnwayne Posts: 1 Joined: 2012-09-19 |
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The whole political unrest issues are stupid as hell. The chinese locals start up ****ing protests and act like ****s to the Japanese. |
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A Chubby Baby wrote:
sigh... To state the ironic, that is a japanese avant/grande black metal band. I like that band a lot for its weirdness. Some what popular in the underground metal, but also unheard of like a guy playing Karma :P |
 HowIOwndYourMoM Unremarkable (1) Posts: 12 Joined: 2012-09-02 IGN: FacelessInNihon on EUW View My Blog |
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The whole political unrest issues are stupid as hell. The chinese locals start up ****ing protests and act like ****s to the Japanese.
There have been multiple incidents where they publicly shame Japanese in restaurants and have even beat them up. Sigh I have so must discontent with the public immaturity in China :/ Its the other way around in Japan. Japanese Soldiers extinquished whole cities with millions of people in the second worldwar, raped and murdered women and impaled babies with their bayonets and carried them around as trophys. You might saw that was about 60 years ago, yes, but there are still many old chinese people, who saw the cruelty of the japanese, thats pretty much all about it. Now some poor "immoral (as others chinese call them)" private chinese people of that island sold their ground to rich japanese people, more and more of these chinese people sell their ground to japanese Multimillionaires and the chinese people and the gouvernmant reacts with incomprehension, anger and fear, that the japanese someday claim, that the gound has allways been japanese territory. You have to know. In China all ground is never yours! After 90 years the gouvernment gets it back from the owner, but there is a rule, that children of the former owner can get it for about 10-20% of the price. 
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 Riceaxe Posts: 2 Joined: 2012-09-19 IGN: Ricebower on EUW |
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The whole political unrest issues are stupid as hell. The chinese locals start up ****ing protests and act like ****s to the Japanese. There have been multiple incidents where they publicly shame Japanese in restaurants and have even beat them up. Sigh I have so must discontent with the public immaturity in China :/ |
 kastorixxx Posts: 2 Joined: 2012-09-19 |
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That's a completly normal attitude from chineese to japaneese ! durin the ww2 japan commit some of the most humanity crimes to china people ( entire families buried alives / millions of raped womens / ethnic epuration / so many tortures and barbarism acts that even the worst |
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Riceaxe wrote:
Its the other way around in Japan. Japanese Soldiers extinquished whole cities with millions of people in the second worldwar, raped and murdered women and impaled babies with their bayonets and carried them around as trophys. You might saw that was about 60 years ago, yes, but there are still many old chinese people, who saw the cruelty of the japanese, thats pretty much all about it. Now some poor "immoral (as others chinese call them)" private chinese people of that island sold their ground to rich japanese people, more and more of these chinese people sell their ground to japanese Multimillionaires and the chinese people and the gouvernmant reacts with incomprehension, anger and fear, that the japanese someday claim, that the gound has allways been japanese territory. You have to know. In China all ground is never yours! After 90 years the gouvernment gets it back from the owner, but there is a rule, that children of the former owner can get it for about 10-20% of the price. You have to know that what those Japanese done has NOTHING to do with the current Japanese generation. If your great,great ancestor is a murderer, it doesn't make you one too. Basically, the mainlanders haven't realize this and do what our great communist party tell them to do blindly. Individuals stood out to pledge for democracy, speech freedom,human rights in China peacefully.Got into prison. Thousands roam on streets setting fire, stealing from shops in the name of the nation.No actions taken. Most importantly, China's fighting for a damn island, wasting so much time for it and doesn't bother to deal with the severe poverty and under developed regions. Even if Japan did something wrong, China ain't a country that should be supported. Back to thread, aw man championship cancelled... will this affect the world tournament? |
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Yes the japanese have ruined many lives of the chinese in WW2 |
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