What's with all this whining? If you don't want to go, then say you have no time / money / or something else, but people, stop talking nonsense about the version, that you haven't played VT, don't like it, etc. etc.
Check out the thread about Odessa; you'll find plenty of proof there that you are wrong. If you come, no one is going to force you to play VT in the first round at least. And after that, everything depends on you.
And there's still a whole month left—don't be lazy, read the manual, play a few fan maps so you know that it's nothing scary. And if you play a couple of games in VT, even though you supposedly don't like it, they won't carry you away in an ambulance and you won't feel sick from it.
And in the end, because you're blubbering here about the version, those who do come certainly won't be any worse off, so stay home and drool while watching the main event of 2014 for our community.
P.S. apologies for the spelling:rolleyes: