Apparently people still can't read so I'll summarize:
The OP in his application told Bioware that he couldn't go. Bioware invited him anyway. Nobody in this thread knows the method for putting people from the waiting list onto the invite list (for example the OP's guild was small, the jerk's guild larger, euro/american).
Wild speculation that in the end means nothing except somebody looks like a total jerk...and I suspect is......