New Information and an IFPA Statement on the OBX Fall Flippers Incident

Note: an update has been shared on Thursday, November 20th, following the resignation of the IFPA Women's Advisory Board and their statement.

That changed this morning when I reviewed the full internal conversation that was held in the Women’s Advisory Board Slack server, covering the entirety of the discussions held from the first reporting of the incident at Flippers Arcade (which is referenced in the IFPA’s second statement) through the publishing of the IFPA’s initial statement. 

Given the significance of these discussions and the fact that they involve named leaders of a governing body making decisions about a public-facing incident, I have opted to publish the Slack threads in a mostly unredacted form. Two small redactions were made to protect unrelated personal health information and the identities of involved non-leadership players. I have also omitted a section of the conversation that took place on Sunday that discussed unrelated disciplinary issues.

In the last update, I highlighted some fuzziness around what appeared to be an internal communications breakdown among the IFPA team. Specifically, “This is where I believe communication within the IFPA falters. At about 3 pm the on-site IFPA Director relays a message that ‘We got it sorted.’ What was perhaps less clear to some was what exactly that meant for the situation.“ And these conversations fill in a lot of those missing details.