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Capcom has decided to punish East Coast Throwdown for the bracket manipulation that happened at the tournament on May 10-11, 2014. In a statement released to onGamers, Capcom's Associate Director of eSports Matt Dahlgren said bracket floating is "not an acceptable practice" and issued the following verdict:

We don’t feel it is appropriate to take away Capcom Pro Tour points from ECT, as that would punish the players themselves, who had no control over the situation. However, we will be removing ECT from our Ranking Event list for next year’s Capcom Pro Tour, and moving forward, any event that is found to have fixed brackets will immediately and irrevocably have its points removed.

ECT's John Gallagher issued a response, apologizing for the appearance of bias and stating that in the future ECT will have a more clear policy on how "bracket pathing will work."