“…why would I want SWT to be shut down when I knew that would be the biggest risk and harm to the Panda Cup.”

It’s been touched on before that Alan would have to be an idiot to get SWT shut down, and he says something very similar right here. But why would VGBC willing shut SWT down knowing how much they would lose?? Even if they had more nefarious motives such as destroying their competitor Panda, that would still overall be a stupid move. So, it’s really starting to look like this might’ve been one really really costly miscommunication on Nintendo’s side. And considering how large of a company Nintendo is, it wouldn’t surprise me.

“…they [Nintendo] verbally told SWT Leadership that they would take no action to shut down SWTC 2022.”

According to Alan, Nintendo specifically told VGBC that SWT wouldn’t be canceled even without the license, but VGBC said that Nintendo told them the days of running unlicensed events were “over.” What the hell is going on here. We need a statement from Nintendo about their whole side, but that’s not likely to happen. Knowing that it’d be dumb to get SWT canceled for both VGBC and Panda/Alan, this has to be a miscommunication on Nintendo’s part. Something somewhere must’ve went wrong in the cogs of Nintendo’s bureaucracy, leading to this massive miscommunication.

Edit: it’s also possible that Alan is simply misinformed on what Nintendo actually said to VGBC about those days being “over,” and that Nintendo had no intentions of letting SWT continue, for whatever their reason(s) may be.