Please read the whole post. The 2020 American Team Championship (ATC) has been canceled due to the current worldwide crisis. Take a look at the latest.
Coming from ATC’s Facebook Page, they’ve got an extremely important announcement that everyone planning to go to the event should read. They’ve also got steps to take from here if you already bought your ticket for this year.
2020 American Team Championship Canceled Due to Crisis
Before we jump into the big announcement, remember that we’ll be covering all the highlights. If you want to read the whole thing for yourself, be sure to head over to their Facebook. Spoilers: It’s a lot to cover.
After some very long conversations and meetings with the Chattanooga Convention Center, the city of Chattanooga, other host hotels, and local authorities we have decided that the best thing for all of the communities involved and the event is to cancel this year’s ATC. Ultimately, the health our game community and public must come first.
Please know that this is a just as disappointing to us as it is to you and it was not a decision that we ultimately wanted to come to and we took it very seriously. We were truly hoping for everyone, everywhere that things would turn around sooner, not just for the ATC but for our nation and world as well.
By now, you might be wondering why they did not reschedule the event. Well, because of the severity and big unknown portion of where the crisis will go, they do not want to string out any dates for us to anticipate, only to reschedule things further down the line. That could just lead to frustration.
What If you Already Bought a Ticket?
Again, we want to be 100% transparent with you. Ultimately, and to be blunt, we can do some refunds but if we refund every team, there will not be another ATC. With that in mind, we will be offering all ticket holders the following options:
A – Refund your Ticket
B – You can Apply Your Ticket purchase for this year To Next Year’s Event.
– To be honest, this is the #1 way to ensure that the ATC returns.
– This can also be transferred to a different team for next year if desired and can be done at a later time.
– If you option to do this and ultimately end up not being able to attend next year we will work with you to resolve this at that time as well.
C – Donate your ticket to the ATC
– This is not something that we are asking or expecting. Some may have offered to do so and we have included it here as an option for that reason. If you choose to do so, 100% will go toward next year’s event.
For the Hotel
The Marriott was the only hotel that took a deposit from the attendees. They have no intentions of keeping that deposit.
1 – If you made a reservation in the ATC room block at the Marriott, you will automatically be taken care of within the next week.
2 – If you did NOT make a reservation in the ATC room block at the Marriott, you WILL need to call and cancel your room or the Marriott will keep your deposit. You have until four days before your first day of reservation to do this but we suggest doing it ASAP.
3 – To be clear, this only applies to rooms booked with our host hotels. If you made reservations somewhere else, you should call ASAP to cancel your rooms.
IMPORTANT!
There is no need to contact us requesting a refund or credit. We will be contacting all TEAM CAPTAINS for 40k and AoS with these options within the next 24 hours. We will also be contacting all Underworlds, Heresy, Kings of War and Star Wars Legion individual ticket holders as well within the next 24 hours.
Stay safe, stay healthy and we hope to see you soon!
-Shane, Chris, Mel and the entire ATC staff
The Silver Lining
The silver lining to everything is that the ATC is already looking for dates in 2021. While it might be a bummer that some 40k fan’s favorite event of the year is canceled this time around, the crew is at least being proactive in keeping their community happy and keeping the ball rolling.
With another huge 40k event canceled, what will you be continuing to start a new faction to get ready for next year and help pass the time?
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