The controversy about T1 Viewing Party made many fans angry and stood up to denounce the page for ‘blocking’, then this page made an official announcement.
Recently, the fanpage T1 Vietnamese Fanclub has been involved in a scandal because many people accused it of making false statements and ‘stealing’ money in the process of organizing and managing the Viewing Party. Viewing Party is a type of activity where fans will be able to enjoy the matches of their favorite team, usually on the big screen inside movie theaters.
Accordingly, the famous SKT T1 team with the LoL game-loving community is still one of the seeds participating in the recent 2023 LCK Spring Split. And during the tournament, the fanpage T1 Vietnamese Fanclub organized a Viewing Party for fans of this team in all three big cities, Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi and Da Nang.
Public post of the page’s statement after the T1 Viewing Party
However, the controversy began to break out after the fans who attended this Viewing Party returned. In particular, many fans were pressing to share that this Viewing Party is not free, each person has to spend nearly 200,000 to be able to attend. Fanpage T1 Vietnamese Fanclub also promotes to followers that when they attend, they will have the opportunity to receive gifts to take home, the Viewing Party also has many interesting activities such as cake and standees, banners, … very fine.
However, contrary to many people’s expectations, the number of fans who attended was large, everyone had to spend the same amount of money, but gifts were not available to everyone, and they did not have the opportunity to taste the cake. They also criticized the organizers because expenses like cameraman, poster design, banner design, etc. are all spent by fans, so it’s basically the same as spending money to go to the cinema. but sometimes … more expensive but benefits are not equal.
A fan is angry because the money is the same but the benefits are not equal
Another fan thinks that the page needs to publicize the receipts and payments, but two or three lines don’t solve the problem.
Another fan said that the income and expenditure chart was overstated and that these numbers are not actual numbers
The climax was when T1 Vietnamese Fanclub posted a long post with the content of the statement of income and expenditure for the recent Viewing Party activity. And the matter was pushed to the climax when many people commented to express their frustration.
Not stopping there, the administrators and organizers had extremely unfaithful reactions to the fans’ frustrations. Instead of trying to give explanations to fans’ questions, the organizers of T1 Viewing Party asked in return if they would join the Viewing Party or not, if so, they were entitled to request. see receipts. Even the fanpage T1 Vietnamese Fanclub has a comment with the content that fans should ‘review their perception’ before commenting.
T1 Vietnamese Fanclub advises fans to ‘be aware’ of the problem
In addition, the admin side of the T1 Vietnamese Fanclub fanpage even made extremely challenging statements and somewhat looked down on the fans, causing the anger of those who used to support the page to be pushed higher and higher. .
The admin team in the closed chat group showed contempt for the participants
Finally, realizing that the matter had gone too far, the T1 Vietnamese Fanclub fanpage decided to issue an apology for the recent scandal. The fanpage gave explanations around the criticisms of T1 Viewing Party participants and concluded that they will stop organizing Viewing Party activities from now on.
T1 Vietnamese Fanclub apologizes to fans and announces that it will not hold Viewing Party anymore
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Many people still find out that the previous apology and statement provided inconsistent numbers
Some fans were quite regretful because this activity was quite meaningful and united, but it was pushed too far because of unnecessary incidents. However, there are also longtime fans who have pointed out that this is not the first time that T1 Vietnamese Fanclub has organized a Viewing Party, so saying that this page has no experience should happen briefly. omission is unacceptable.
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