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OK here are my arguments I guess

1) This is not the "fun part" of the year. It's the more important part, sure, but the idea that this is "fun" is insanity - it's Epopmania build. That's difficult to build in the right way and requires more thought and more delicate booking than at other time. I'm not saying it's shitty, but it's certainly challenging. I'm not coming back for the part that is in some way "the most enjoyable". The events themselves are enjoyable, setting them up is not.

2) For real, I never gave up my admin position. Intentional or not, me temporarily giving up the book and then not being able to have it back when I'm ready for it feels a bit - and this is going to sound super dramatic - mutinous. Tom, I wouldn't have sent you that message worrying how you were going to be able to execute BFW in the time you had if I had no stake in it. If I'd truly given up an administrative role why would I be worrying about how you were going to run BFW? It's the only time I've had a genuine concern with how things were being run so I felt I had to say something. (But you guys had the situation in hand, so it was fine, though I'd prefer BFW to be less congested and rushed to allow more flexibility)

I was the one who announced the end of UCA. It was my idea to do that. That was in the summer. I previously PM'd Football about him taking over Ruin temporarily also.

3) Tom is also being a little dramatic. There are 10 Ruins left. 10. If you really feel you can't work with me for a little over two months, when UCA has no long-term direction - only a finishing point - then I'm disappointed in you. Similarly, in a 10-week period it's actually kind of irrelevant whether or not a third show "works". It took years of UCA being a bit bloated before we took action and got rid of Eruption and the IM title. When you have only 10 weeks left, it doesn't actually matter all that much. Personally I think it gives us more flexibility in Mania season.

I just feel like the length of time we have remaining negates this problem. Making this "him or us" is mad. Like, totally mad. 10 weeks left. Are you telling me you'd be unable to co-exist with me for 10 weeks? Am I so overbearing, and if so, however did this place survive - thrive - under my tyrannical, impossible-to-work-with booking for so long?

4) At the risk of sounding arrogant, I am the best possible booker for Epopmania and Epopmania season. The long-term thinking and planning and ideas I have that are required for Epopmania (especially this one, our last show), is something I particularly specialise in. I couldn't do my best work this year because I had a laptop that was barely functioning and then broken entirely, life was shit and too busy, and then I lost patience with UCA. All of those issues are now thoroughly resolved.

Obviously (obviously) the great Epopmanias that have been planned, booked and executed in the past don't happen without the userbase responding and doing great things in the build and being receptive, so I'm not claiming sole credit or anything. But I'm sorry, and this is to Tom especially: look me in the eye and tell me Epopmania 3 (the last one before I arrived) was better than any of the ones I booked.

5) I appreciate how rude my original message must have sounded if you were under the assumption I'd given it up permanently. Obviously I would never have messaged you and said "OK I'll take it from here, but thanks for your efforts, here have a third show" if I'd legitimately given it up. That would be super presumptuous and a bad look. I apologise for that confusion.

6) My commitment to UCA is beyond question. I delayed a vacation to Thailand specifically so I could run the Rumble two years ago, and we're heading into the last ever show. You really think you aren't going to get the very best of XIII for these last two months?
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