It's not really a secret, so it's hardly detective work. Just seemed a bit disingenuous to see, haha. Nonetheless, while I think the discussion has been had with you enough times at this point, I'll explain again:
The WBO team does not hate local community growth at all.
Project AIDA - our ongoing long-term community initiative - is all about re-evaluating how we approach the Beyblade community as a whole and becoming far more inclusive than we've ever been. We've never hated local or seperate communities in the slightest, we just have to be careful to both protect ourselves (our business, if you want), as well as be considerate of our status as a not-for-profit organization.
And that's where this isn't the easiest topic; on top of our pre-existing ambiguity towards what we're allowed to support over the past few years, we've had a few legal ramifications to consider since the formation of Fighting Spirits last year too. And publishing our AIDA plans earlier this year was a sign of us saying "yeah, we've looked into it, got legal advice, and studied what we need to know . Now we're ready to take steps to support this".
But if we're going to do this, we want to do it justice and do it properly. We don't want this to become an uncontrolled situation similar to walking into a Walmart and seeing an absurd number of Best Buy adverts. That would hinder our own ability to function, would look bad on the surface and could be viewed as a tactless approach, so we want to lay out our expectations for allowing this properly.
We want to offer local communities most of the same functions that we offer our WBO Organized Play organizers; dedicated event pages, proper placement on the site where suitable, the same improved communication channels that we want to implement for WBO events etc.
Between the logistics of offering that and the legal policy work we need to settle on, we just don't feel it's right to permit this yet. But I honestly cannot stress enough, we
are working on it and will share more when we're happy with our progress. We aren't trying to be unnecessarily cruel to non-WBO communities, we just need and want to do this right and not run unnecessary risks.
