OFFICIAL SPANISH ANNNOUCEMENT

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OFFICIAL SPANISH SQUADS ANNOUNCEMENT:

Today we officially announce that the Spanish Community has resign to fly this SEOW.
The time to discuss and/or open negotiation ways is over, no need to discuss further.
SPANISH commanders are axhausted and without motivation; not having any option to rise it again.
We don't want revenge, we don't want fight, we don't want anybody looking for responsibles... we just want to end with this to rest and be calm.

We're sorry for breaking our compromise to fly Phase1; we did not want this but honestly we think that we're not the only responsibles for this to happen.
We feel terribly sorry for this, but any squad commander reading the last week Emails exchanged should understand that this situation could not take longer.
Really extreme positions and mututal lack of respect cannot be accepted by any pilot in this SEOW; we're here to have fun and we must preserve any personal relationship on top of any SEOW discussion.
Spanish community has worked hard, really hard for this SEOW; technics, skins, modpack and numerous meeting to prepare this SEOW... and strong feeling of not being heard and/or understood has devastated our morale and motivation.
We want to be part of the IL2 community; but we need to be heard and we need to be supported..even more than we've been done.
This was the first time that Spanish community was flying together in an international SEOW, and the expectation created inside it was really high; we wanted to perform well, we wanted to do things correctly...
but finally we all failed, most probably our lack of international experience and communications problems did not help too much; together with a lack of "left hand" to deal with our proposals, thoughts and considerations coming from the Admin and Allied squads.
That's why we say STOP. We're already working on the "lessons learnt" to avoid this situation to happen again in the future.


Thanks to all the rest of the European Squads for the time flying together and our most sincere apologies for this unexpected leaving. We hope we can fly together in the future.It's now time to analyze the "lessons learnt" in order to avoid this situation to happen again in the future.


Our most respectful thanks to Peter, as the father of this creature, as the guy who has worked more hard in this SEOW and the guy who made this possible...
but unfortunatelly the guy who should have more "left hand" to understand ESP requests and to put himself in our position. Most probably, Allied squads did not help him too much to make things easier...
As the "guy in the middle" he has been the most stressed one. Thanks and Sorry.

We will summarice in the next points why we break the compromise to fly Phase1:

(do not look for guilties or responsibles, just look for things that should not happen in future SEOWs)
(Thee arguments are based in the Spanish opinion and experience within this SEOW, and not necessary have to be agreed by any other involved or not in this SEOW)

- Our Commander has been banned unillatery from the SEOW planning website, most relevant issue to take this decisión...it was done prior to any announcement and without any notification to the SPA community.
- Failure to accomplish agreed commitments with the ES community CO by the admin.
- Disrespect and disparagement of the whole ES community, treated as "childish", "amateur", "liars",...among others S.E.O.W. commanders.
- Dishonoring the community's work and fair play.
- Lack of respect against a commander in the last week Emails and one post in the HQSEOW FORUM.
- Important problems loosing pilots due to fly too much pilots.
- Restricted/forbidden movements and actions based in historical movements or facts.
- Last minute modifications without previous notice nor testing time
- Unfair, unbalancing and unilateral concessions, again without notification.

We sincerely hope to be in the near future in a position to restore this unwanted situation and demonstrate that this kind of SEOWs can be flown together with the Spanish Community.

Cheers
ESP Squads.