Community: Difference between revisions
From SmashWiki, the Super Smash Bros. wiki
Jump to navigationJump to search
| Line 50: | Line 50: | ||
===Panda Cup conspiracy allegations=== | ===Panda Cup conspiracy allegations=== | ||
{{See also|Team:Panda|Tournament:Panda Cup#Controversy|Tournament:Smash World Tour 2022#Behind-the-scenes and cancellation}} | |||
In November, 2022, then then upcoming and highly anticipated tournament [[Smash World Tour]] suddenly [https://medium.com/@smashworldtour/smash-world-tour-official-statement-f568a3d135c8 announced] that their tournament would be canceled at the last minute. Their reasons for doing so were that despite productive conversations with Nintendo months earlier claiming they would not be shut down, the company came to them and said they will not grant an official license for the tournament and, in response to if SWT can still run their tournament without a license, Nintendo stated "those times are over." SWT took this as an indirect threat of legal action if they continued and felt forced to shut themselves down. Due to not receiving a license and being barred from receiving any license in 2023, SWT organizer [[VGBootCamp]] also shut down all of their major 2023 tournaments, including Glitch: Duel of Fates and Double Down. While Nintendo spoke to Kotaku defending themselves by stating they did not specifically request the tournament to be shut down, SWT would rebutt with written evidence to back their claims. | In November, 2022, then then upcoming and highly anticipated tournament [[Smash World Tour]] suddenly [https://medium.com/@smashworldtour/smash-world-tour-official-statement-f568a3d135c8 announced] that their tournament would be canceled at the last minute. Their reasons for doing so were that despite productive conversations with Nintendo months earlier claiming they would not be shut down, the company came to them and said they will not grant an official license for the tournament and, in response to if SWT can still run their tournament without a license, Nintendo stated "those times are over." SWT took this as an indirect threat of legal action if they continued and felt forced to shut themselves down. Due to not receiving a license and being barred from receiving any license in 2023, SWT organizer [[VGBootCamp]] also shut down all of their major 2023 tournaments, including Glitch: Duel of Fates and Double Down. While Nintendo spoke to Kotaku defending themselves by stating they did not specifically request the tournament to be shut down, SWT would rebutt with written evidence to back their claims. | ||
