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The top 16 players were flown Motion to Atlanta , Georgia for the concluding phase of the tournament , where they competed Competition inside the World Congress Center in a gaming arena Intergraph built Building on the floor of the Electronic Entertainment Expo ( E3 ) .

The protest was announced Expressing_publicly on January 10 , 2014 , by the Electronic Frontier Foundation ( EFF ) .

On January 18 itself , more than 8 million people looked up Scouring their representative on Wikipedia , 3 million people emailed Communication Congress to express Statement opposition to the bills , more than 1 million messages were sent Sending to Congress through the Electronic Frontier Foundation , a petition at Google recorded Recording over 4.5 million signatures , Twitter recorded Recording at least 2.4 million SOPA-related tweets , and lawmakers collected Come_together `` more than 14 million names—more than 10 million of them voters—who contacted Communication them to protest Response '' the bills .