JShank said:
we got delayed in the console tournaments due to people getting upset and leaving after they lost, thus having to take their equipment with them
You can never anticipate something like this but next time don’t even bother asking them to bring it in. If you can’t depend on them to stay you’re better off planning to not even have their equipment to begin with.
The club doesn’t need to be buying controllers and expensive stuff, most of that could be borrowed from more reliable, aka less childish, people.