Yep, it will be really hard to see more numbers when the event was announced on so short time and also on the same day that NCR will be held, the only people who would have changed their schedule were the guys that known that stand a chance to win money.
Also, from the professor
Ogosho won't be going to MLG. He was supposed to be invited by them together with a number of other players from Europe, but they told them at the last minute that they never sent any invites like that. He's complaining about it on Twitter and I'm sure the others will follow. Right now, he's streaming while boozing and complaining about this whole incident.
Also, RF didn't get an invite to begin with, so he's not going. Tokido isn't planning to go either. To put it another way, MLG won't have any Japanese players.
Twitter comments from Ogosho:
http://twitter.com/gosyo_kof/status/181737318628069377"Regarding America, D44 was able to make contact with their guy in charge, but he was told that there wasn't anything like that to begin with."
http://twitter.com/gosyo_kof/status/181737412194611200"A number of players from Europe also fell victim to this incident, and they can't do anything about it. They(MLG) probably didn't mean any harm and it's hard to figure out where this all started to begin with. I wasn't sure if I could go there so I'm not angry, but I'm appalled at this whole situation."