Kelly 'kellyMILKIES' Ong Xiao Wei expresses dissatisfaction with WPC after delayed payments from the organisation

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Having provided Chinese Dota with two $200,000 major tournaments, it has recently come to the public's attention, through interviews with various players, that WPC have yet to pay out any outstanding fees owed to the competitors in either of the two seasons. Today, however, Kelly 'kellyMILKIES' Ong Xiao Wei made her opinions on the matter known by lambasting WPC on Twitter, as well as Reddit.

After we got back from China, the staff that was working with me had all quit. That was pretty irresponsible of them to not complete their work before they did. I was passed off to a contact who worked for JINGRUI , a real estate company in China that is the sponsor of WPC. The e-mails were generally this: We are transitioning in the company, we need more time blahblahblah you will get your money soon. Whenever I asked : Is there a timeline? It's ok if it takes long, we just want to know the time line (We, = [A] C9). And.. -no reply-

According to various players in contact with Team DK, the champions of the inaugural season of the WPC-ACE League, word has sprung that they are yet to receive their sum of winning said season, as well as placing 2nd in the recently concluded WPC-ACE League. Wei continues:

At TI i went to the China teams and asked if they heard anything from WPC. They are having the same problems. I spoke to ACE starting from about 2 - 3 weeks ago, had people in China speaking to ACE as well. Today a weird ass thing happened which made me really angry at the way WPC was handling things. They told ACE this:

Is there anyway someone can facilitate the "ticket sales" for the event so we can follow up on payment. I blew my lid. Ticket sales are not supposed to be your prize money. I am almost 100% sure that the ticket sales will hardly cover enough money to pay for anything. How can you host a tournament when you have a sponsor that was backing you, expecting to pay out of ticket money? It was an obvious excuse / delay tactics.

It is currently unknown if WPC as an organisation is in the process of liquidation, as many of the people Weir was in contact with have left the company as soon as the 2nd season of the league concluded. It is still unkown how the situation will develop.

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