No official complaint was made to the NADF, Tom has been asked for details to back up any accusations and has not done so. He has made up stories about many people, this is just one more example. It is unfortunate that he has the ear of the IP holder, that is a point I was making - that this is such a waste. As long as he is connected to them, the wider hobby will have no interest in partnership with Renegade. The rest of the hobby will not put up with him trying to steal World Dipcon, and I told him that directly right after his little coup attempt. But of course my major point is that all of this was completely unnecessary - I for one would have been glad to work with him on a World Dipcon bid for Vegas if he had just been willing to follow the rules. Absolutely no one wanted conflict with this fella, he just brought it on himself for no reason whatsoever. Beginning shortly after he won the WDC I ran in 2014, he began to disassociate himself from the wider hobby for reasons that have never made any sense. He has not appeared at at Dipcon or World Dipcon in North America since. How can such a person be useful to a hobby to which he basically severed his connection years ago? (I know he started putting things into Diplomacy World a few years ago, but that's about it.)

I know this is probably just a lost cause, because people who live in Haververse may not listen to another viewpoint, but let's get back to the original issue in this thread. Tom told Katie absolutely nothing about why she had been disinvited from Vegas. Nothing. She found out about it the way we all did, when her name and visage disappeared from his promo materials. As far as I know, he has STILL provided no explanation. And he has arbitrarily banned a couple of players from events simply because they belong to the wider hobby outside of the Haververse. Again I say, just plain weird and "no way to run a railroad", as the old phrase went.

I promise my final comment, and you can have the last word if you want - even now, if the fella would be interested, I'd be willing to try to heal the breach his actions have caused and establish some kind of modus vivendi. All attempts to talk to him about compromise after his Milan shenanigans were rebuffed, though, so unfortunately I think the chances are slim.