Epsilon Esports’ all-British Call of Duty team will not be playing at London’s Gfinity Arena World League tournament this month due to an email blunder.
It seems that team captain Stephen “Vortex” Allen (second from right) forgot to send the email needed for team registration on time, as reported by Millenium.
Can’t go because I fucked up the email that had to be sent the other night, would’ve been 10th seed, nothing to do with PPs
— Epsi Vortex (@SteVortex) January 18, 2017
His teammates posted some frustrated tweets following the news:
Not going gfin now, due to our own faults, now we’ve gotta play in open bracket at Atlanta and ESWC, ahhh this is gonna be fun?
— BenWright (@BenDesire) January 18, 2017
Today has actually been one of the worst days in a while?☹️
— BenWright (@BenDesire) January 19, 2017
Very, very shit day.
— Dave (@Dqvee) January 18, 2017
Yep may as well quit till next cod lmao
— Billy Harris (@Hawqeh_) January 18, 2017
Dave “dqvee” managed to see the funny side and make a meme of his teammate Vortex berating him for the mistake:
When Stevo realised he didn’t submit our roster for gfin pic.twitter.com/avqZ626PIQ
— Dave (@Dqvee) January 18, 2017
Epsilon were the tenth seed but because they failed to send the registration email on time, they will now look to play in the open bracket at MLG Atlanta and ESWC Winter instead.
Unless a team willingly drops out to make way for Epsilon at the CoD World League in London from January 27th to 29th, it looks like they will be missing out on it.
The Call of Duty World League will be stopping off in London, Birmingham and Sheffield this year.
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
