• Refusal to provide tournament results for official WBO events – Despite months of repeated requests for tournament results, Deikailo refused to provide the results for 5 tournaments that she had hosted or assisted in running. The most egregious example of this is Reality Altering Hades Upheaval, a “ToyWiz Summer Spin Showdown” event that was held in late August, 2011 – but she did not provide the results to us until late December, 2011.
  
  As a direct result of this behavior, tournaments in Virginia, DC, Maryland, New York, and Ontario could not be processed in the last 4 months of 2011. The Beypoint queue grew to the longest it has ever been, and hundreds of Bladers did not have a current and accurate BeyRank.
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• Withholding of WBO funds from official WBO events – Even after submitting a few of the outstanding tournament results, Deikailo refused to send in the tournament fees that she had collected on the behalf of the WBO in a timely manner. This money was not hers, but she decided to withhold these tournament fees and not send them in as all tournament hosts are required to do. Evidently she was trying to make people believe that the Committee was arbitrarily holding some of her previous tournaments and that she would only send the money once the first tournaments were processed - but there were no such events being held up, and we were waiting for her the whole time.
  
  It wasn’t until late January, 2012 that a final accounting was made, but this was done without accurate records or receipts. The prizes she claims were distributed were not approved by the WBO in advance (as we require) and we do not believe that the full and true amount due to the WBO has actually been paid.
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• Serious complaints against Deikailo as a purchaser and seller of Beyblades – It is not often that the WBO Committee is approached by an International business to ask for our help in negotiating a debt incurred by one of our members. A middleman based in Japan contacted us to see if we might be able to exert our influence in getting Deikailo to pay an enormous bill for goods she had purchased through the middleman many months ago - but still had not paid for. We were embarrassed to receive such information about one of our most prominent members, and feel that this reflects very poorly on the WBO.
  
  We have also received numerous complaints from Deikailo’s customers, who have been dissatisfied with the accuracy and timeliness of the purchases made from her. At least one of these complaints was also sent to arbitration through PayPal, resulting in a judgment against a non-responsive Deikailo.
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• Hosting Beyblade tournaments for her own personal profit – For those of you who do not know, Deikailo has decided to stop hosting WBO events in New York City, and instead has created her own Beyblade website and tournaments. She is charging participant fees that are similar to the WBO’s fees, but instead of that money being returned to the community (by the non-profit WBO) she is keeping the money for herself.
  
  While Deikailo’s tournaments are supposedly for “charity”, only a very small percentage of the fees are given to the schools and the rest goes to her. She has stated to various WBO members and hosts (in so many words) that it is “stupid to give tournament money to the WBO when you can keep it for yourself” and has encouraged other hosts to consider keeping the money for themselves too.
  
  To be perfectly clear: Every single penny that the WBO collects goes straight back into WBO activities, prizes and tournaments. No Committee member of the WBO has ever drawn a salary or otherwise profited from their work with the WBO, and we never will. Deikailo's decision to take Bladers' money for herself is a shocking betrayal of the principles the WBO stands for, and we will not have it – or her – in the WBO any longer.
  

(Apr. 02, 2012  6:37 PM)th!nk Wrote: I would really have given her a chance to defend herself here.

As for the site: the money went towards the significant cost of purchasing the domain name, especially as she already had a job at that time. The only profit she made was off sales.

And yeah, she was leaving anyway.

No further comments til I've discussed it all with her anyways.

(Apr. 02, 2012  6:43 PM)Kai-V Wrote:

(Apr. 02, 2012  6:37 PM)th!nk Wrote: I would really have given her a chance to defend herself here.

As for the site: the money went towards the significant cost of purchasing the domain name, especially as she already had a job at that time. The only profit she made was off sales.

And yeah, she was leaving anyway.

No further comments til I've discussed it all with her anyways.

Domain names can cost as low as five dollars, easily ...

Before she was leaving, she wanted to host another tournament though, and considering everything, we could not trust her anymore.

(Apr. 02, 2012  6:43 PM)Kai-V Wrote: Domain names can cost as low as five dollars, easily ...

(Apr. 02, 2012  6:54 PM)th!nk Wrote: I'm not asking whether or not you heard her side, I know that you did.

I simply do not think it's fair to not allow her to state her side publicly, nor is it fair on others to not be allowed to hear her side of the story.

As for transparency, yes, I would have been just as irked had you done it silently, however, a more ambiguous message would have been much better, given she is unable to defend herself here, this is not particularly transparent either.


As for advising others to withhold money, if I recall what occurred correctly, you're taking that vastly out of context. I believe it was related to the processing of events and battles at a certain point (in relation to the brooklyn battalion tournament perhaps?)

(Apr. 02, 2012  6:58 PM)Hazel Wrote: She defended herself to us, and it was not sufficient. We were given every reason, every excuse, and every detail she could come up with.

Defending herself to the public serves no purpose other than to make a larger than necessary scene - if you are envisioning a world where the public would've gotten to vote on whether or not she got banned, I'm afraid that is a bit unrealistic. Even if we only held her accountable for each individual offense, the sheer warning level from each thing, stacked atop one another, would have resulted in her being banned.

th!nk Wrote:As for advising others to withhold money, if I recall what occurred correctly, you're taking that vastly out of context. I believe it was related to the processing of events and battles at a certain point (in relation to the brooklyn battalion tournament perhaps?)