Why didn't Satiini show up at [insert event name]? Now there is an answer to that question. He has some sort of claustrophobia sickness, he tells in an open letter to the community.
The Night Elf Finnish player Satiini has several times been a no show in offline tournaments, and it was a mystery to many why he decided to not take part at offline tournaments. The next upcoming offline tournament was the European Battle.Net Ladder Season 4 taking place in Stockholm this weekend. Being one of the players who reached Top 20 in the invite ladder, Satiini qualified for yet another event. However it was still uncertain whether he would come or not, but now it's final - he is not coming. Reason for this turns out to be a sickness he has which makes it impossible for him to travel by airplane, and going by train stretches him to his limits. All this Satiini explains in an open letter to the community.
I have a sickness in my mind which comes from my childhood that makes me panic and get unbearably nervous in these kind of situations, I dont know how to translate the doctors diagnostics into english which im sorry about. [...] However there are medications for this problem which I just discovered some weeks ago which I will use in the future to arrive at some event with plane, I would have done this for season 4 qualifiers already but I didnt have time to test them and the side effects can be very unpleasant so I couldnt just jump on it.
- fnaticSatiini @ 2006-11-24 01:08:54
This means that Group A is one man short. Whether the organizers decides to bring in one man with such short notice or all the matches will be forfeited is not yet known.
Links
SK-Gaming.com - Satiini's open letter
GosuGamers.net - Battle.Net Season 4 Europe Groups
