Not only speaking for myself but even just for the people in cities outside of Manila, cancelling an event that can be ran on another pairing system two days before the event is diabolical. Players spend money for flights and accommodation to attend events that have been scheduled well in advance, and for it to cancel on the day that they are supposed to board a plane is a terrible way to go about handling your regional level tournament. Why is it that Grand Prix 2026 Autumn Chiba for Shadowverse: Evolve, a significantly bigger event, is still being held and a 70 player capped tournament can’t be handled the same way? xitter.cf/shadowverse_ev/status/… This is 2026 where there are ways to handle a pairing system then later report it to Bushiroad via Bushi Navi once it gets patched due to the PHP Cyber Vulnerability. Another pairing system, use AI to seed your event, and even in the worst case scenario, manually pair the event. How is it that a company like Bushiroad is incompetent of organizing a backup plan if in the event of a disaster to the pairing system, there is an alternate way to hold the tournament? The only thing affected here is the tournament pairing system and there are systems out there that do not run on PHP or on any infrastructure that isn’t affected by the vulnerability. Not to mention, people who have never been to the hosting store before, and with a big event where they are front facing as the organizer gets cancelled, that is reputation damage to the store. There absolutely should be some sort of compensation to the players for this event and whilst this is a global cyber issue, an adjustment in how the tournament pairing is conducted can solve this issue. If you as a company do not have backup plans, or have trust in your tournament organizers to fulfil the integrity of your event, why even bother playing Bushiroad games? A subpar BCS 26/27 announcement with less than the bare minimum of event details for players to make decisions, and a cancellation of an event two days before the appointed time which causes remote players to drop their arrangements from work and personal commitments, why even bother?