PGT / Bnet-X HELP? can't connect etc

[MrBobby]

erm. i thought i'd try out pgt ladder a while ago. it may be way above my skill level, but i thought i'd try. i have bwlauncher, it works fine. i'm registered to wgtour. when i try to connect to bnet-x .... querying gateway... .... ... ... ... connection failed, check i have an active net connection, etc. the pgtour website wont open either? is pgtour down, or what? imean, are the servers down? we are supposed to be logging onto bnet x, as opposed to europe? i'm generally very confused, not having every succesfully done ANYTHING with the new ladder system except for sign up to wgtour. if anyone could provide a step by step how to for ladder it'd be great... or maybe its down?? but i been trying to find the prob all night on google and stuff and not turned up anything much, and i do frequent a couple of starcraft sites, and they were all posting news when pgtour first came up and it was crashing and going offline all the time and stuff, ... but i thought it had been up and running properly for a while now.
well. my grammer/spelling is atributable to the fact that its 5.10am due to trying to get on bnet x lol, but i WONT cry if you tell me its offline permanently. or whatever. but yeh. any help appreciated. thanks,
mrbob

[lammas]

Its cause pgt is dead and buried. PGT was hacked sometime ago and Pat (pgt organiser) got so pissed that he didnt want to rebuild it. So kids, what do we learn from this? Make backups.

[MrBobby]

oh ok. well then i look stupid, but i did think it had come up since it got hacked. :( well what do you guys do for a ladder then? what does BLIZZARD provide for us in terms of ladder play? and what would be more suited for someone who would defo be amongst the worse players in any ladder?

[lammas]

blizzard has no intrest in making any kind of ladder.
www.starcraft.theabyss.eu is pretty much only decent foreign ladder yet thats not so good either. Or if competition isnt that importnant to you op tot) on eur is fine too.

[MrBobby]

thanks. :( i would've thought blizzard would've shown interest... because they supported pgt didnt they. well, supported in as much as they cited it as the replacement for their original ladder system.

[Ahzz]

they didn't support pgt but weren't really against it either. Also, blizzard has said it's cooperating with wgt to make a ladder, but what I feel is, that WGT is making all the work, while blizzard is just a big name to bring more people playing the ladder

[lammas]

to me it seems that wgt isnt doing that much either considering its been year since they said: "2 weeks". I think that it was a great joke from blizzard to give us a nonworking ladder that wasnt even made by blizzard.

[Ahzz]

I doubt they're putting in any amazing amount of work in it...