| Current mood: |  pissed off |
I Call SHENANIGANS on you fuckers
So Saturday night, last night, was the midnight release of Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Gamestop is holding a trounament. The website and the promo posters all say that tournament starts at 10:00 NATIONWIDE.
I show up to my local Gamestop at 9:15 PM, ready to sign up and take part in the tournament. The doors are locked. So I figured, okay, maybe they don't open the doors until 10:00. I was prepared, I brought a book, my zune, gloves and a hat. And wait. And wait.
Finally around 9:50 PM two other people show up. The people inside recognize some of the other people outside waiting, and one of the staff pokes their head out to tell us that their tournament was at 7:00. EXCUSE ME, WTF? They opened their registration at 10 AM and held their tournament at 7 with NO notice or wanring to us regular people.
NOT TO MENTION THE ASSHOLES LEFT ME STANDING OUTSIDE IN 20 DEGREE WEATHER FOR OVER 30 MINUTES WHEN THEY COULD HAVE TOLD ME SOONER. ANY OF THE STAFF MEMBERS WHO WENT IN AND OUT OF THE STORE WHILE I WAS WAITING THERE COULD HAVE FUCKING TOLD ME.
I'm so fucking pissed off, and I'm not the only one. At least 30 people showed up after that between 9:50 and 10:30 to take part in the tournament, some of then little kids like 13 and 14 years old! WTF IS THAT!?!?
So I got a friend of mine to get me the info on that store, their store number, the name of their manager and assistant manager, and the number for corporate service. I called them from the parking lot but they closed at 8:00 PM.
I called them first thing this morning, and I did my best to be polite on the phone to the average joe doing his customer service job, but he said ultimately, I would need to go to the district manager and gave me his number. I called the district manager but got an answering machine, not a voice mail (WTF?), and left a brief message.
I have been looking forward to this fucking tournament ALL GODDAMN WEEK, and I REALLY wanted to take home this fucking trophy:
If I would have lost the tournament, fine, whoever gets it walks away by earning, but I'm fucking pissed off because I didn't even get a chance to play because these fuckers get to arbitrarily decide to hold the nationwide 10:00 tournament whenever they fucking please.
FUCKING SHENANIGANS.
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