We should have made a better showing, yeah. If we can make XenoEncore, a local, bigger than a major with a 500 pot bonus, yeah, there's something wrong. I agree, we dropped the ball, and we didn't honestly deserve main game status or the pot bonus like this. I'm not upset that they took it, I just don't like they way they did.
They knew they weren't getting as many entrants as they wanted for a while, and they could have said something to us at some point (through Twitter, or Facebook, or by making an account like the other TO's we've had come to the forum). They've mentioned Skullgirls like twice on their Twitter since May, and until they told us it'd be a side game they haven't mentioned it at all on their Facebook. The only reason we even knew they wanted a lot of people was because of Aphro telling us, and the only reason we knew there was no pot bonus is because the TO mentioned it off-hand in a FB comment thread.