Phil "Esquire" StewartVerified account

F*CK SAAAAAKE!!! Dear governments across the world can you PLEASE just have an 'esports athlete = 100% visa guaranteed' selection for players to select when applying for visas? This is getting so damn old and I feel incredibly bad for all the players suffering from it. https://twitter.com/UnityPubg/status/1122577134294380545 …

It’s weird though, it is pretty easy to get a visa to Shengen zone. Unless you go for a German one

Why would they? I’ve always traveled for tourneys with a tourist one

maybe because you already had one? when you’re getting a new visa specifically for a tournament it’s considered a business visit visa and it’s not easy to get, for example in Germany you have to have a local legal entity to be able to give people invites for such visas.

I don’t understand why cannot you simply get a tourist visa, that’s what I did for every single tournament and everything was ok.

because from a legal perspective that’s what you’re supposed to do. it’s a business trip for you, not an excursion. a lot of people travel for events with tourist visas, doesn’t fully make it the right thing to do though.