On April 01 2012 02:43 -Trippin- wrote:
Imagine of this really is just an April fools joke. All the people who posted above me would look so god damn retarded.

This is the worst April Fool's joke ever, if it's an April Fool's joke. I once thought it would be a funny April Fool's joke to get a genuine HIV test, and change everything so that it says that I'm HIV positive and post it on my facebook wall because I thought it would be funny. Thankfully I thought twice and realized that the potential future negative aspects of claiming I have HIV when I do not severely outweighed anything positive that could come out of it.

That is sort of the equivalent of what this is, because even if it was a joke, it's a joke that hurts Eclypsia more than it gains them anything. It doesn't display good humor and doesn't put their organization in a positive light what so ever. If this is a joke I would expect sponsors to pull out immediately. I wouldn't want my brand associated with an organization whose management thinks it's funny to announce to the world that they're a shit organization who won't reimburse players for flights and hotel, dodges attempted communication and potentially runs off with sponsor money.

Soloturtle

Canada333 Posts

March 31 2012 17:54 GMT

#86

This is horrible.
Have your team mates also got scammed as bad as you?

knoxvilleUA

Russian Federation15 Posts

March 31 2012 17:57 GMT

#87

Some familiar situation, just like mTL. Poor guys, i hope EC will respond for this

SockArms

United States591 Posts

March 31 2012 17:59 GMT

#88

if this really happened well damn that sucks

if this is a april fools joke, meh not the best.

mango_destroyer

Canada3914 Posts

March 31 2012 18:01 GMT

#89

Small teams are either shady or have terrible management in this scene. Maybe because they are overly ambitious with unrealistic expectations. Who knows really...

Vivax

22168 Posts

March 31 2012 18:01 GMT

#90

Yes,i would also want a team where the 1st news out on TL is about it not paying its players.

Very unlikely to be a joke, and if it is, their management is really sucky.

Gladiator6

Sweden7024 Posts

March 31 2012 18:01 GMT

#91

The title seems kind of unprofessional if this is true, but if it's Aprils joke it seems unappropiate.

MadVillian

United States127 Posts

March 31 2012 18:01 GMT

#92

Well, since Welmu never responded, I am going to assume this is an elaborate April Fools joke to get more exposure for the team. You can say it wasn't the smartest idea to throw their team under the bus just for laughs, but I am sure they will announce something big to counteract it. Who knows though, I could be completely wrong... I have April Fools lol.

SolHeiM

Sweden1264 Posts

March 31 2012 18:03 GMT

#93

On April 01 2012 03:01 mango_destroyer wrote:
Small teams are either shady or have terrible management in this scene. Maybe because they are overly ambitious with unrealistic expectations. Who knows really...

My guess it's both of those combined with an inexperienced management. It really sucks that things like this happen.

MooMooMugi

United States10531 Posts

March 31 2012 18:04 GMT

#94

Thats pretty sad by them to take advantage of you guys...

FeyFey

Germany10114 Posts

March 31 2012 18:04 GMT

#95

why even bother writing this exactly on april the first, could have waited a day lol. Sigh .. doubt blizzard had overtime this year to make good april jokes ... and on the forums april jokes got lame.
Well enjoy the trip.

Berailfor

441 Posts

March 31 2012 18:04 GMT

#96

I doubt it is an April fools joke and it is terrible. It's more likely that after this gets out, if they do in fact have the sponsor money to give, they will give it back and CLAIM it was an April fools joke. If it was an April fools joke, they'd at least be able to contact the team representatives. But the OP and apparently his other teammates are actually being completely ignored.

Such as a shame stuff like this happens, sorry man.

HoMM

Estonia635 Posts

March 31 2012 18:06 GMT

#97

We need a mod to put a note to the top that says "This is not an April Fools joke", the posts here are just getting retarded.

Good luck Welmu and others, hopefully this is just a temporary mismanagement of moneys, and that Eclypsia would get this problem solved.

LittLeD

Sweden7973 Posts

March 31 2012 18:06 GMT

#98

Wow this is so sad :/ Hope you guys can overcome this tragedy.

NexUmbra

Scotland3776 Posts

March 31 2012 18:09 GMT

#99

On April 01 2012 02:35 eXigent. wrote:

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This is a terrible post. You obviously have no clue what you are talking about. Why the hell would someone want to make their team look awful, and possibly have the whole community shun them etc. That would be downright stupid. An april fools joke is in jest, its not used to totally fuck up relations with a team and the community around it. You have alot to learn dude. Like for example, your thought process on them scamming him is just absurd.

2. Why would anyone make you pay out of their own pockets just to scam you? What in the world would they earn from this? Its not like they are getting anything out of it. I would understand it more if they ran off with your price money or something. If this story actually ends up being true, it means they where scamming you just to be assholes..which seems unlikely.

They made him pay it out of his own pocket so that they didnt fucking have to. They most likely lead him along, and he paid the trip. If they paid the trip knowing they were just in it for sponsor money, then they would be out the couple hundred euros that it costed to send welmu. Now read closely....if Welmu paid his own trip, they are not out a fucking cent....get it now?

The sponsership money that they had, maybe they planned to get a bunch of good players then ask sponsers for money, then Welmu asking to go to this tournament was going to fuck up them so they would have to give him the money so they just said instead that he can pay his own way there.

Ah the wonders of theoreycrating XD