A elevada expectativa caiu por terra à uns dias atrás, aquando da revogação da licença por parte do município de Zoetermeer. Tal revogação deveu-se ao facto de não estarem observados certos pressupostos de segurança, devido a obras de renovação do local, exigidos por um novo regulamento legal.
Declaração oficial de b2s (inglês):
"The municipality of Zoetermeer has just informed b2s that, despite the many years of cooperation and good preparation for the event Project Hardcore 2011 the license has been revoked. This has to do with the renovation that recently took place at the location where the event would have been held, the PWA SilverDome in Zoetermeer. Because of this renovation, new fire regulations are demanded and also a so called TNO-Rookvultijdenmodel. Both of these are official reports which the location should have handed over to the Fire Brigade and the municipality. Unfortunately, despite several requests from our organization and from the municipality these official reports have not been handed in. This means that only 1500 visitors are allowed into SilverDome while thousands more tickets have been sold.
Therefore the municipality of Zoetermeer was forced to cancel the event because the overall safety cannot be guaranteed. We, as an organization, regret this issue a lot and are staggered by this. We have put in every effort possible to ensure that Project Hardcore 2011 could continue, but unfortunate this could not be done.
Two days before the start of the build-up of the event it is no longer possible for us, as an organization, to find another solution for this major event. Therefore the only thing we can do is to abide by this decision. b2s stands for quality and we cannot guarantee you the quality in this way. Visitors pay a lot of money for their tickets and we would like to give you the best for this. This has been taken away from us by the revocation of a license. We feel very sorry for all the visitors who had a ticket for Project Hardcore. Everyone could not wait and was very excited about it.
All the people who have purchased their ticket for upcoming Saturday; your purchase, also the service costs, are fully refunded by the account you paid by Paylogic, the ticketpartner of b2s. You do not need to apply for reimbursement. You will receive the refunded money within two weeks if you have paid with iDeal. If you have paid by creditcard , this will also be processed within two weeks but depending on your creditcard this could take a month."
