Ett utdrag ur WCG:s uttalande följer:

"WCG Nordic received a protest from Fnatic in 5th of July about the Nordic Finals. The team expressed their view that one final spot was not enough to all three countries. They also criticized the extra step in the process, since their summer schedule was already quite full. We underlined, that the situation was the same for all the teams and the tournament schedules were explained to the teams in good time ahead. The protest demanded, that Fnatic should get the free spot to the Grand Finals without the Nordic
Qualifier taking place or they would not participate.

Therefore we were left with the unfortunate result to disqualify the team from WCG tournament this year since the team declined to participate to Nordic Finals even after discussions with the team's management. Fnatic's spot will be offered to the third placed team in the Swedish qualifiers, team H2K."

fnatic menar på att endast en nordisk representant inte är tillräckligt och att WCG:s modell för att ta fram denna representant skapar problem i ett redan tight sommarschema. Dessutom kritiserar man flera av WCG:s val, bland annat att lagtröjor med sponsortryck med mera är förbjudet. fnatic ska ha varit i kontakt med WCG i ett tidigare skede angående sponsortryck på tröjor och något svar från WCG ska ha uteblivit.

cArn har sagt bland annat följande till fnatic.com:

"By pushing us to attend a second offline qualifier will not only cause tension to our already busy summer schedule, it would also declare that WCG does not accept the reality that the three best Counter-Strike 1.6 teams in the world actually hails from Scandinavia, according to G7 and their updated ranking in July this year.

We also feel disappointed that WCG has not come back to us with an answer to our previous concerns we had together with SK-Gaming and Mousesports, about not letting us represent our sponsors in a decent way by forbidding us to use team jerseys at the WCG events."

cArn har uppgett till Fragbite att laget i nuläget inte har en plats i WCG som går av stapeln i Los Angeles i september.

Vad WCG Nordic har att säga om bojkotten finns att läsa här. fnatics uttalande om bojkotten och diskvalificeringen, samt ett personligt uttalande från både manager Sam Mathews och cArn återfinns här.