I will not hide my disdain for what happened there or my complete disgust with the lack of information to the players who were put in this awful position. The discussion about prize payouts was hidden on the boards from non-members since March and few if any email updates on the current financial situation have been delivered to the members. It's the cloak of darkness that hides the players from the facts.
The message boards will likely remain on there for as long as the site is live. The current management runs the main site and boards and right now players are allowed to vent their frustrations. However, any requests for answers to how this happened or what is going to happen next or to possible payouts in the future have fallen on deaf ears. It's frustrating to watch those players suffer even more with management choosing not to respond to anything at all over there. I again ask Dustin or someone in charge to do the right thing and at the very least explain if or when anything can be explained honestly to the players so that they can move on and understand their losses.
I also will be open and say that all WCOFF members are welcome here if they are looking for a new home. I'm not hiding behind the fact that we want the NFFC to be your new home or at the very least we want you to stay in the high-stakes space with us or one of our competitors. We don't want you to leave the HSFF space over this. I can certainly understand why you would leave this space and NEVER RETURN. I would totally understand after how this industry has treated you. WCOFF isn't the first company to let you down, but it better be the last. Enough is enough.
Anyway, we have threads elsewhere on these boards about our two $100,000 grand prizes, our two Main Event formats (14 teams and 12 teams), our 15% discount to owners who weren't paid their prizes by that contest last year, our past history of paying over $7 million on time and in full, our reputations in the industry and more. I won't bore you with that here.
What I would like to do is offer this forum to past players who want to vent about their experiences and actually have people who care reply to you with answers. Maybe I know something about that situation that I can explain without overstepping my bounds. I'd also like this to be a place where you can introduce yourself to the NFFC community so that we can welcome you to the NFFC. I'd also like this to be a place where you can talk about your past WCOFF accomplishments and smack talk about what you hope to do in the NFFC. I'd also like this to be a place where you can ask questions about the NFFC's format, 3RR, KDS, etc. I'd also like this to be the place where our NFFC members welcome you and make you feel like maybe there is a new home after the fire has wiped out everything.
I just want you to have a new forum to come to. It's painful to watch the continuous posts over there from folks who don't know what to do next. Come here to vent, if nothing else. Come here to talk about football, if nothing else. Come here for a sense of community again, if nothing else. This is your thread and hopefully you'll soon get integrated into the other threads.
We've been through tough times and changes here as well. None like yours, but some that weren't fun, right guys?
We know you have to keep fighting to stay above ground. We just want to help you stay around, if we can.Post here and if you need anything from me I'm at 715-254-5553 or at [email protected]. Tom is at 715-254-5559 or at [email protected]. Our office number is 715-445-2906. We're here to help and welcome you to a new home. And I trust our NFFC folks will offer the same help and warm welcome.
Just click the Register button on the home page of the NFFC boards if you're new here. Create a Message Board name and a password and hit submit. Email me to say you've signed up for the boards and we'll approve you shortly. We have an approval process in place so that spammers can't just continuously load our boards with spam links. But the approval process won't take long to get you on the boards. Thanks.
Best of luck all and sorry for your fate right now.
Thanks all.