http://gambit-gaming.com/en/article/366
Four of Gambit's Players Won't Attend LCS in London
Gambit四名选手无法出席于伦敦举行的LCS
Gambit Gaming’s core line-up is going to miss the fifth stage of LCS EU
Summer that takes place in London from June 21st to June 22nd. The reason
behind it is that four Russian players cannot get a visa to Great Britain.
Gambit的核心成员将会缺席由6月21日至22日，于伦敦举行的第五周LCS EU。这是因为
四名俄罗斯选手未能取得英国签证。
It takes from three to six weeks for Russian citizens to acquire this visa,
and, on top of that, players don’t have a chance to go abroad during this
period, since they have to leave their foreign passports in a consulate.
俄罗斯公民要取得英国签证需要三至六周的时间。更重要的是，在这段时间，选手不
能到其他国家，因为他们需要把护照留在领事馆。
To our surprise, we found out about LCS taking place in London only from an
official announcement published at leagueoflegends.com on May 22nd, meaning
that the current split had already begun, even though Riot Games’
representatives should have notified us about it beforehand. In theory, we
could have applied for an emergency visa that takes up to two weeks to be
acquired, but in this case, we would have to miss two stages in Cologne. It
is completely senseless to sacrifice two stages to attend one.
令我们惊讶的是，我们在5月22日才在leagueoflegends.com发现LCS将在伦敦举行的
官方消息，这意味着夏季赛已经开始了，而Riot Games的代表早应该要通知我们。理
论上，我们可以申请紧急签证，需时只要二星期，但这个情况下，我们会错过两周在
Cologne举行的比赛。为了一周赛事而牺牲另外两周赛事显然不合理。
Organizing events like LCS London Roadtrip requires no less than a couple of
months, therefore it is obvious that we are the innocent victims of
organiziners’ careless actions. They failed to investigate how difficult and
lengthy it is for Russian citizens to acquire visa to Great Britain. It is
worth paying attention to that we could have acquired visa to Great Britain
without any obstacles during the off-season (April 18th – May 19th), should
we be informed about games taking place in London in due time.
要筹备LCS伦敦周这规模的赛事，最少需要一个月的时间，所以明显地我们是Riot粗心
大意下的无辜受害者。他们没有好好调查俄罗斯公民取得英国护照的难度和时间。这
里需要说一下，我们在休赛期间（4月18日至5月19日）绝对可以在没有任何障碍下，
取得英国签证，我们应该在这段时间被告知我们需要到伦敦作赛。
We have approached Riot Games’ representatives with an inquiry to reschedule
our games on a basis that we cannot travel to London due to their own lack of
foresight, but our inquiry was declined. Should we skip LCS London Roadtrip,
our team not only receives two default losses, but is also subject to severe
penalties. In light of it, we are forced to resort to using four substitute
players. Consequently, organizers’ careless actions have a negative impact
not only on us, but, more importantly, on our fans, who paid for tickets and
accommodation and changed their plans for this weekend in order to attend
this event and support their favourite team.
在Riot Games缺乏远见导致我们未能到伦敦参赛的前提下，我们曾向他们查询能否重新
安排赛程，但我们的查询被拒绝。如果我们不参加LCS伦敦周的话，我们不只不战而败
两场，我们亦要面对处罚。鉴于这一点，我们被迫派出四个替补选手。结果，组织（
Riot Games）大意的行动，不只对于我们有负面的影响，这更影响了已经购买门票、更
改行程，到场支持我们的粉丝。
It’s not the first instance of Riot Games putting us in a disadvantageous
situation. We acknowledge that a decision to remake our match against SK and
a refusal to reschedule LCS EU Spring Week 6 games can be considered
questionable, but a given event is an indisputable failure of Riot Games.
Riot已经不是第一次让我们处于不利的情况。Riot要求我们与SK重赛，他们亦拒绝了重
新安排LCS春季赛第六周的赛程，这不一定是Riot的过失。但是次事件中绝对是Riot的
失误。
#1JDRNa36 与SK重赛的声明
#1I_oqskR LCS春季赛第六周多人无法出赛
We won’t hide that up until yesterday organizers were trying to remedy this
situation and did their best to make it possible for us to travel to England,
but, unfortunately, it was too late to find a viable solution. Essentially,
acquiring visa is not an issue as long as it is addressed in good time.
我们直至昨天仍然不公开这件事件，是因为组织仍然尝试寻找解决方法，并尽最大努力
让我们能够有一个英国之旅。不幸地，现在已经来不及找一个可行的解决方案。基本上
，若能及时处理，取得签证根本不是一个问题。
As for our fans, who counted on meeting us in London, we can only express our
condolences.
而对于准确在伦敦见我们的粉丝们，我们只能表达我们的慰问。
翻译：Ian