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TriCkster135
Profile Joined June 2016
Germany80 Posts
October 11 2016 06:27 GMT
#241
On October 11 2016 13:08 HolyPepsi wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 11 2016 12:37 CosmicSpiral wrote:
On October 11 2016 11:30 TomatoBisque wrote:
On October 11 2016 00:35 OuchyDathurts wrote:
S4 said he was a great captain but a terrible person on his ask.fm. There's screenshots of 1437 with his nose so far up puppey's ass its incredible during the Kuro split. 1437 was Puppey's lapdog so its no surprise he'd be there for round two. Who knows about Artour, maybe he hated being in PPD's team so much he didn't care that he was going back to abusive boyfriend Puppey? Its all speculation we might not ever know why he'd go back to that well.

I'm aware of what s4 said, and that's my point: can you honestly read EE's blogpost and think "Yeah, s4 thought the person being described here was a great captain." Someone who doesn't practice, treats his team like shit? Can you honestly tell me that every player Puppey has played with thought to themselves "Yeah this is legit 10/10"? Reminder: rtz called Puppey one of the best players he ever played with post-TI5 and said he would absolutely make a team with him again


You can be a great captain and a lazy, irresponsible bum. It's just a question of how quickly the latter catches up to the former. Besides, I doubt Puppey was that bad throughout his entire Dota 2 career. He might've gotten complacent due to his legacy and thought he could coast based on pure experience; Secret certainly didn't seem well-organized or attuned to the meta during their implosions. EE"s claims about Puppey's condescension and arrogance are easy to believe. Rumors about his bad behavior stretch all the way to Dota 1.

On October 11 2016 12:12 Dysisa wrote:
As funny as I do find the video to be, I fully agree that people are making a bigger deal out of the monitor smashing video than it is. Everyone snaps sooner or later, because of something or another. For comparison, over in the Street Fighter community we have a guy named Sanford Kelly. He has a reputation for getting a little angry at times, but he's not some kinda horrible person, far from it.

The video is definitely not a good sign, but it's also not some sort of undeniable proof of that he is a monster.


Eh, Sanford Kelly is far from an upstanding citizen.

On October 11 2016 11:41 HolyPepsi wrote:
On October 11 2016 11:35 Oktyabr wrote:
On October 11 2016 11:22 HolyPepsi wrote:
I would like to humbly express my 2 cents on this matter, based on the fact that I consider myself a matured person and have read countless people in the past.

Before anything, I woud not draw a equal mark between the fact of "TS does not pay players fair" to (not enough fact) "puppey is disgusting person". For the following reason and logic

1. Misery only brought the fact of the money issue with TS, he did not say a bad thing about puppey

2. EE's blog is very pervasive, trying to paint puppey as a "disgusting person" but there are not enough evidence to proove it. EE's blog can be divide into 2 parts:

A. TS shits on their player when it came to money: EE has brought enough evidence to this also misery has confirmed. But to me the evidence towards more to kemal, not puppey. The evidence may suggest many different senarios:
I: Puppey is part of this money stealing crime - no evidence say so
II: Puppey did not involved in any of this, EE and misery got their money back becasue puppey tried so hard to get money from kemal - which is equallyl ike senecario I, then EE owns puppey apology for this
III: Puppey knows many things kemal did, but cannot handle kemal and take in charge of the team (since all the money first go through kemal's pocket). This is the more likely senario to me, I have done business with all different people: people with good wills, con men, naive ppl etc. From my personal judgement on listening to puppey interview, opinion on different things, I think this is more likely the case - he takes partial responsible as a management role of TS which unable to pay players on time. We do not how if he tried or how hard he try to make things right or wrong. -- all this is my guess, no direct evidence suggested so. But these are 3 possible fair senarios.

not mentioning there is no mention of contract terms, seems everything is agreed orally based on good will. its a good lesson for players - again you should not point the gun directly to puppey.

B. Puppey is a shitty person this is the part EE failed horribily, and imo owe puppey a big apology, here is why.
Some facts seem to be directly related, but not.

for example: one fact that catches people's attention is how ee describes Kemal and Puppey using tournament's cut for call girls. This can be very misleading: there is no evidence suggesting the money is used for this purpose (EE's imagination). One should never reveal someone's personal life : not everyone is otaku, virgin like EE. People have a choice of their personal life, revealing stories like this without solid evidence (ex hosting a gangbang party or using tournament's cut to host a gangbang party is very different) is very disrespectful to others. I would like EE to reveal his porn search keywords, im sure the story can be equally appealling. People talk shits privately - do not bring it up to against each other.

Drinking: In Estonia or russia, you are crazy if you dont drink. Once again do not judge other's personal life or hobby based on your own.

Lazyness: When did EE last time win anything before joining puppey's team? MLG Columbus 2014. If a person has any bit of appreciation left in his humanity, he should be thankful (like misery did) to their teammates and specially captain for winning a Valve major and other tournaments. Puppey has been winning big tournaments since 2011, EE has not, there is a reason. Why do you think RTZ left his dad fear and rejoin team secrect if puppey and the organization is as shitty as EE described? (given rtz's big ego). Teams do fall off, specially when they just win something big. When the team has bad chemistry, it is everyone's fault. The record only suggests that EE make bad situation worse (like cloud9, he starts kicking or shitting on teammates randomly instead of finding constructive solution). If you blame TS's bad performance for puppey, then it is all puppey's credit for winning shanghai major.

Arrogant: People have personalities, arrogant is a common personality for leaders who sticks to their own ideas - the word can inteperrted in different ways, if you win - arrogant is a good thing. if you lose - ur arrogant. EE is also an arrogant person if im not mistaken. I do not see this as a negative quality.

Monitor smashing: this is the most ridiculous "facts" EE brought up. c'mon, chuan smashes monitor for winning, what's so for losing a game? I mean it's not nice to do it - but do not make a huge deal out of it - kuro and zai seem to be cool about it, and puppey did not try to hide his feeling. Also this video is in 2015, it has nothing to do with EE. Why is he even trying to bring this up? And puppey threatening EE for not releasing this video? I do not see a big deal out of this.
It shows puppey is not always cool as ice, more "russian". so what?

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put everythign aside, eveywhere EE goes he is the center gravity for drama - shit always happen around him. Does he attract shit? i don't think so - it is the way he see things.
My fair judgement would be TS is not so clean as an organization (like many western clubs, DC is an exception), puppey is still the same puppey.






Did you even read half the blog? You seem to have conveniently skimmed through the part where Puppey fails to show up for practice, uphold his end of streaming just the bare minimum, or even clocking his share of pubs. Or all the other allegations that Envy made about Puppey threatening to fight and w33ha being bullied. I like how you avoid addressing any of Envy's claims and banter about his lack of tournament wins prior to secret and call it fair judgment.


of course i did, your boss maybe an asshole, a nerd. it is your choice to listen to him, get along with him or not, they win shanghai major with puppey "bossing" them around didn't they? give your teammate some credit.. And all this is from EE's perspective. Tell me If all this is so true why rtz returns to puppey?

never take a single sided story as truth.


It's funny you claim "Puppey is a shitty person" is where EE failed. If anything, there's a plethora of evidence suggesting it that existed long before EE's blog. His reputation as an upstanding, aspirational Dota god is the real mystery. The mystique of old Na'Vi must've been really strong to rub off on him like that.


still it is from EE's single point of perspective. to me it sounds like a girl bitching what an asshole her ex-boy friend is.....
the facts maybe truth but the interpretation has too much tonal coloration.


It is crazy that some people are still saying that there is no evidence and ppy has done nothing wrong.

Everyone is a fanboy of someone, but at some point people need to realize that their hero has done bad stuff and stop being like its not that big of a deal.

EE's post is full of evidence and its not the first time something like this happend.

spudde123
Profile Joined February 2012
4814 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-10-11 06:59:52
October 11 2016 06:44 GMT
#242
@HolyPepsi

Concerning the money part Misery did somewhat point the finger at Puppey too by saying he felt Puppey "didn't give a shit" and that Puppey had been making decisions about the 10% and whatnot behind everyone's back.

Concerning the more personal part about Puppey I somewhat agree that it shouldn't be brought up. Even if all of it would be all accurate, it doesn't really do much good to bring it up and from EE's perspective it might even make his own situation worse if people started firing shots back at him. Though I don't see anyone coming even a bit to Puppey's aid and claim that the stories are not accurate, so my feeling is that EE is not just expressing his own views. But still again even if it's accurate I don't think the information being there does much good and instead just gives random people online material for Puppey memes.

You're right that EE has made comments about his former teammates before, but it has never been even close to this. He's been somewhat open at times when asked on stream or wherever and given his view on a player, but it has never been like this. None of the players you listed were "shat on" completely by him, even if he said some negative things about some.
Dracolich70
Profile Joined May 2011
Denmark3820 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-10-11 07:00:05
October 11 2016 06:56 GMT
#243
If we believe PPY told the truth, he is not in charge, and couldn't negotiate with the owner for a better deal. There are two options, either PPY and Kemal are on the same side, or Kemal has total control of Team Secret, thus PPY losing a say, probably because he feels this is Kemals field of expertise.

PPY didn't uphold his end of the bargain, and it always appeared to me, he wanted EE on his team for his workethic, which contrasted XBOCT. This work ethic seems to be manipulated into EE doing most of the runs for the money(sponsor deal, that Kemal landed for greed reasons, and apparently not possible or enforced). Outside less wants to work with PPY, it is not impossible to think that the work ethics of Koreans are to be exploited.

At the end of the day, Team Secret is very poorly managed, and PPY is not up for his part of a captain nor team owner.

It is not very surprising PPY isn't a clever businessman, or at least not having the work ethic to build something from bottom up, but Kemal must be someone who only lives off his dad's wealth, because competent he isn't - scammer or not.

The brand is built on name players. Kemal argued that changing players is not very good for the brand building, yet roster changes has been the call of the captain in most cases.
LiangHao
Eywa-
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada4876 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-10-11 07:27:43
October 11 2016 07:19 GMT
#244
The team was not backed by sponsors, yet there was an organization behind them, team building activities and benefits... And the 4 other players on the team think that this is free, 0% cut. Seems like EE and co. were a bit naive in thinking that.

The only thing that is problematic here is the delayed payments (which now that it is paid out kind of makes the blog look pretty irrelevant)

Like, is a 10% cut from all non-valve events even that big of a deal for a team like secret?

I really don't see why people are losing their minds over this given that the players involved are now financially whole.
Being mannered is almost as important as winning. Almost...
TriCkster135
Profile Joined June 2016
Germany80 Posts
October 11 2016 07:44 GMT
#245
So if your payment would be reduced by 10 % without you knowing, would it be that big of a deal?
And it's not about the 10 % cut. It's about taking 10 % of someones money without telling them and don't planing on paying it bsck ever, which is more or less theft.
Also on top you recieve your money months after you earned it.

Sounds like a big deal to me.
kazyv
Profile Joined May 2013
273 Posts
October 11 2016 07:45 GMT
#246
On October 11 2016 16:19 Eywa- wrote:
The team was not backed by sponsors, yet there was an organization behind them, team building activities and benefits... And the 4 other players on the team think that this is free, 0% cut. Seems like EE and co. were a bit naive in thinking that.

The only thing that is problematic here is the delayed payments (which now that it is paid out kind of makes the blog look pretty irrelevant)

Like, is a 10% cut from all non-valve events even that big of a deal for a team like secret?

I really don't see why people are losing their minds over this given that the players involved are now financially whole.


no, i think that 10% is a very big problem actually. for simplicity i will adress puppey/kemal as the owner. first of all, EE repeats often that they never agreed on 10%, so where does it come from? the way i see it, it comes from the owner running the team and having expenses, which are not covered by income. well, simple enough, what is the problem then?

well, some expenses are for the players, like house and meals, and that is sort of fine, but then again, why would the players need the owner if they are going to pay those expenses on their own anyway?

but also, another part of the expenses is even more problematic and that is expenses for the team/the brand. invesment in the infrastructure(for example paying people for website) and also in the trademark bye expanding into other games. this money is spent to advance the team, invest in future profits.

and maybe the owner is even a good guy who will share those profits with the players later on, once they come in. but he is not going to share the team, the stakes in the team with the current players, whose money he is taking to invest right now. at the end of the day it is the owners team, players can come and go, but whatever the team gains in the long run is for the owner to reap.

to me it is obvious that this is completely wrong, and any invesments should be payed out of the owners pocket, because he is the one who will gain the profits
spudde123
Profile Joined February 2012
4814 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-10-11 07:56:46
October 11 2016 07:50 GMT
#247
On October 11 2016 16:19 Eywa- wrote:
The team was not backed by sponsors, yet there was an organization behind them, team building activities and benefits... And the 4 other players on the team think that this is free, 0% cut. Seems like EE and co. were a bit naive in thinking that.

The only thing that is problematic here is the delayed payments (which now that it is paid out kind of makes the blog look pretty irrelevant)

Like, is a 10% cut from all non-valve events even that big of a deal for a team like secret?

I really don't see why people are loosing their minds over this given that the players involved are now financially whole.


They did have some sponsors though (one massive one even with Panda), and they have Kemal who presumably is loaded with cash. The blog seems to state that the players were led to believe that Kemal is covering for some of the costs. Though of course it's fine if he doesn't want to throw around his money and instead just works for the organization to make it sustainable, but the issue seems to be that this wasn't what was said and there is little transparency as far as what money is coming in and where it is going to. Players are told "don't worry I got it covered", and then secretly some money is apparently taken from the players' earnings to cover it. Players don't know what exactly were the costs of different things (they are told not to worry about it), so they don't really know if the 10% or the Panda money actually goes to that or if it's just sitting somewhere. I think from a player's perspective if it sits on the company account it's basically Puppey's and Kemal's if they own the company, one of whom seemingly pretty much screwed up the PandaTV deal for the team and the other who hasn't got any decent sponsors for the team. It isn't really a surprise that it would make the players mad.

Of course it's clear that stuff isn't free so the money has to come from somewhere, and I doubt anyone would be complaining about the cut if it was transparently agreed on that this is the way the team operates. Certainly players like EE and Misery also have to look at themselves for not being more active and making sure they have the agreements in writing and everything is as they want. But it's the continued lack of proper communication from Secret towards the players (going back to the old rosters too) and the apparent misinformation about where the money is coming from that makes people mad.

Also some of the money still isn't payed out.
goody153
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
44255 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-10-11 08:57:03
October 11 2016 08:54 GMT
#248
On October 11 2016 16:19 Eywa- wrote:
The team was not backed by sponsors, yet there was an organization behind them, team building activities and benefits... And the 4 other players on the team think that this is free, 0% cut. Seems like EE and co. were a bit naive in thinking that.

The only thing that is problematic here is the delayed payments (which now that it is paid out kind of makes the blog look pretty irrelevant)

Like, is a 10% cut from all non-valve events even that big of a deal for a team like secret?

I really don't see why people are losing their minds over this given that the players involved are now financially whole.


Usually it isn't unusual to see this kind of setup(with 10% cut in the tournament prices i mean alot of the known orgs today do that and has been doing that) shouldn't be a big problem except

    * that the whole point as to why Team Secret was formed was to avoid this abuses and transparent honest financial handling within the organization(aka no sneaky financial movement within). Go look up the things like the motivation of the formation of Team Secret like in the interviews etc etc back in the first iteration notail, fly, puppey, s4 and kuroky roster. This is literally why Team Secret is formed to avoid this kind of abuses. (you would this entire situation ironic if you knew why Team Secret was formed lol)

    * The 10% cut wasn't known to the team. So Team Secret suddenly decided to make 10% cut's without informing the team. Think about it this way, lets say where you work never said from the start that they would be taking from your salary to fund the financial expenses of the workplace itself so lets say the promised $1000 dollars a month as salary then the day you get payed it suddenly only turn into $900 dollars without any explanation whatsoever or informing you that they will take $100. The big difference with EG/c9/Alliance/whatever is that the players are INFORMED that they are gonna take some cut from the tournament price they win and the players mutually agreed upon it. Team Secret did not apparently.



The delayed money is a pretty big deal, in misery's blog he had to pester them and he was kicked twice in the team before he got what the org owns him(that's a pretty long ass time from the first time he was in Secret to the 2nd time he was).

I assume that work now or selfemployed, right ? Think of the salary or the profits arriving a year after it's intended. Now will you put up with that and just say "eh it's pretty irrelevant it's just delayed" ? That's not something that is ok unless they asked your consent right from the beginning that they would only pay you(or get payed) a year after and you agreed to it.
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mahrgell
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Germany3943 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-10-11 10:14:46
October 11 2016 10:14 GMT
#249
Newbees take on the story:

Laserist
Profile Joined September 2011
Turkey4269 Posts
October 11 2016 10:20 GMT
#250
How they missed pron star hire pun, jeez.
“Are you with the Cartel? Because you’re definitely an Angel.”
Vertical
Profile Joined July 2011
Indonesia4317 Posts
October 11 2016 10:44 GMT
#251
On October 11 2016 16:19 Eywa- wrote:
The team was not backed by sponsors, yet there was an organization behind them, team building activities and benefits... And the 4 other players on the team think that this is free, 0% cut. Seems like EE and co. were a bit naive in thinking that.

The only thing that is problematic here is the delayed payments (which now that it is paid out kind of makes the blog look pretty irrelevant)

Like, is a 10% cut from all non-valve events even that big of a deal for a team like secret?

I really don't see why people are losing their minds over this given that the players involved are now financially whole.

having your money payed 6 months later is fine for you? get a financial advisor bro
-Terran-
Dracolich70
Profile Joined May 2011
Denmark3820 Posts
October 11 2016 10:54 GMT
#252
On October 11 2016 19:44 Vertical wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 11 2016 16:19 Eywa- wrote:
The team was not backed by sponsors, yet there was an organization behind them, team building activities and benefits... And the 4 other players on the team think that this is free, 0% cut. Seems like EE and co. were a bit naive in thinking that.

The only thing that is problematic here is the delayed payments (which now that it is paid out kind of makes the blog look pretty irrelevant)

Like, is a 10% cut from all non-valve events even that big of a deal for a team like secret?

I really don't see why people are losing their minds over this given that the players involved are now financially whole.

having your money payed 6 months later is fine for you? get a financial advisor bro
Not would not even be the worst, it would that getting paid more than a year later, only to find this accumulated owed money will be cut by10%, not to mention whatever tax problems it will have.

Having said this, I am not sure how legal it is that Misery asks for the money to be delayed, so he can place them in a company. That smells tax evasion.
LiangHao
uwahwah89
Profile Joined May 2015
Indonesia158 Posts
October 11 2016 13:00 GMT
#253
Now im worried about my boy MidOne future career. Hope he can still deliver good play even with current Secret toxic and shady environment. And hope he smart enough to leave Secret once transfer window open (unless Secret become more fair and transparent about payment and that delayed shit things)
Go go liquid wiki
Saechiis
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Netherlands4989 Posts
October 11 2016 14:42 GMT
#254
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I think esports is pretty nice.
Baradrist
Profile Joined January 2011
Germany96 Posts
October 11 2016 14:50 GMT
#255
The shitshow commences... . The last time this happened, I was quite upset that my beloved TeamSecret had turned to such a monstrosity. Now I am just "meh ... whatever". This team was gone for me already some time ago. It had an upswing and I actually cheered for them as long as they had W33 and Misery. But their kicks and all the financial fiasco finally makes me smile devilish every time I see them loose. It's just a real pleasure for me to watch them fail like they did at TI. Thanks for that! I'd rather cheer for them, but it seems to have become impossible. And the more I read from Puppey, the less I actually like him ... and I start asking myself: Why did I think he was kinda a good guy in the first place? He never did or said anything to deserve that - he just never gave me reason to not believe that. Somehow that was enough to make his fall in my opinion surprising.

Good bye again, "player-run" Secret, it was nice watching you ... for a brief while in 2014/15, the short while that we believed the fairytale that was your invention. GG, "wp".
Eywa-
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada4876 Posts
October 11 2016 15:17 GMT
#256
On October 11 2016 19:44 Vertical wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 11 2016 16:19 Eywa- wrote:
The team was not backed by sponsors, yet there was an organization behind them, team building activities and benefits... And the 4 other players on the team think that this is free, 0% cut. Seems like EE and co. were a bit naive in thinking that.

The only thing that is problematic here is the delayed payments (which now that it is paid out kind of makes the blog look pretty irrelevant)

Like, is a 10% cut from all non-valve events even that big of a deal for a team like secret?

I really don't see why people are losing their minds over this given that the players involved are now financially whole.

having your money payed 6 months later is fine for you? get a financial advisor bro

Clearly you didn't read, because I said that IS a problem.
Being mannered is almost as important as winning. Almost...
Eywa-
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada4876 Posts
October 11 2016 15:32 GMT
#257
On October 11 2016 17:54 goody153 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 11 2016 16:19 Eywa- wrote:
The team was not backed by sponsors, yet there was an organization behind them, team building activities and benefits... And the 4 other players on the team think that this is free, 0% cut. Seems like EE and co. were a bit naive in thinking that.

The only thing that is problematic here is the delayed payments (which now that it is paid out kind of makes the blog look pretty irrelevant)

Like, is a 10% cut from all non-valve events even that big of a deal for a team like secret?

I really don't see why people are losing their minds over this given that the players involved are now financially whole.


Usually it isn't unusual to see this kind of setup(with 10% cut in the tournament prices i mean alot of the known orgs today do that and has been doing that) shouldn't be a big problem except

    * that the whole point as to why Team Secret was formed was to avoid this abuses and transparent honest financial handling within the organization(aka no sneaky financial movement within). Go look up the things like the motivation of the formation of Team Secret like in the interviews etc etc back in the first iteration notail, fly, puppey, s4 and kuroky roster. This is literally why Team Secret is formed to avoid this kind of abuses. (you would this entire situation ironic if you knew why Team Secret was formed lol)

    * The 10% cut wasn't known to the team. So Team Secret suddenly decided to make 10% cut's without informing the team. Think about it this way, lets say where you work never said from the start that they would be taking from your salary to fund the financial expenses of the workplace itself so lets say the promised $1000 dollars a month as salary then the day you get payed it suddenly only turn into $900 dollars without any explanation whatsoever or informing you that they will take $100. The big difference with EG/c9/Alliance/whatever is that the players are INFORMED that they are gonna take some cut from the tournament price they win and the players mutually agreed upon it. Team Secret did not apparently.



The delayed money is a pretty big deal, in misery's blog he had to pester them and he was kicked twice in the team before he got what the org owns him(that's a pretty long ass time from the first time he was in Secret to the 2nd time he was).

I assume that work now or selfemployed, right ? Think of the salary or the profits arriving a year after it's intended. Now will you put up with that and just say "eh it's pretty irrelevant it's just delayed" ? That's not something that is ok unless they asked your consent right from the beginning that they would only pay you(or get payed) a year after and you agreed to it.

I don't disagree that the money being paid out late is a big problem, but the fact is that none of the players so far who've gone public with this have presented any written evidence of the 0% cut in the form of a contract or anything that's legally binding.

There is a lot of people who get burned in what are otherwise considered to be respectable businesses worldwide all of the time. Just because the company is formed with a certain ideology, it doesn't mean that that ideology can be maintained or even ever fully exist. In a case of vocal agreements, there are just a lot of feelings and opinions, there isn't much right or wrong. Also, with vocal conversations, depending on the timing where things were said, they could have been forgotten and/or misunderstood. Now, I could be corrected if the players had signed some kind of agreement, otherwise, I don't see the issue. There is also no proof that the players were unaware. They even claimed to receive "random amounts of money" and just continued to "trust in the system".

Like, imagine you receive your first pay check and you're like, this is not the amount I'm owed for commission on any of the items I sold (How hard is it to calculate that this is not 1/5 of any of the tournament winnings? - You can even ask the tournament for details). It seems to me that unless there is some form of written evidence supporting the player's claim that there was in fact no way of knowing and/or agreed to something else in a legally binding way, they come out as being naive moreso than anything else.
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Eywa-
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada4876 Posts
October 11 2016 15:37 GMT
#258
On October 11 2016 16:50 spudde123 wrote:
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On October 11 2016 16:19 Eywa- wrote:
The team was not backed by sponsors, yet there was an organization behind them, team building activities and benefits... And the 4 other players on the team think that this is free, 0% cut. Seems like EE and co. were a bit naive in thinking that.

The only thing that is problematic here is the delayed payments (which now that it is paid out kind of makes the blog look pretty irrelevant)

Like, is a 10% cut from all non-valve events even that big of a deal for a team like secret?

I really don't see why people are loosing their minds over this given that the players involved are now financially whole.


They did have some sponsors though (one massive one even with Panda), and they have Kemal who presumably is loaded with cash. The blog seems to state that the players were led to believe that Kemal is covering for some of the costs. Though of course it's fine if he doesn't want to throw around his money and instead just works for the organization to make it sustainable, but the issue seems to be that this wasn't what was said and there is little transparency as far as what money is coming in and where it is going to. Players are told "don't worry I got it covered", and then secretly some money is apparently taken from the players' earnings to cover it. Players don't know what exactly were the costs of different things (they are told not to worry about it), so they don't really know if the 10% or the Panda money actually goes to that or if it's just sitting somewhere. I think from a player's perspective if it sits on the company account it's basically Puppey's and Kemal's if they own the company, one of whom seemingly pretty much screwed up the PandaTV deal for the team and the other who hasn't got any decent sponsors for the team. It isn't really a surprise that it would make the players mad.

Of course it's clear that stuff isn't free so the money has to come from somewhere, and I doubt anyone would be complaining about the cut if it was transparently agreed on that this is the way the team operates. Certainly players like EE and Misery also have to look at themselves for not being more active and making sure they have the agreements in writing and everything is as they want. But it's the continued lack of proper communication from Secret towards the players (going back to the old rosters too) and the apparent misinformation about where the money is coming from that makes people mad.

Also some of the money still isn't payed out.

For the portion that isn't paid out, EE says in his blog everything but the 10% he is owed is paid out. He's not getting any more money.

My biggest issue with this whole story is in pretty much any other job position, if someone told you this after working for someone for a year, you'd probably call them an idiot for not looking for a new job or figuring it out sooner and dealing with the reality (because the reality of the situation here is not that bad, they still got a lot of money).
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stink123
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States241 Posts
October 11 2016 15:44 GMT
#259
While it is not recommended, a verbal contract is considered binding in the US(probably elsewhere as well). And with the released message transcripts, it can be considered a written agreement as well. And its pretty important for verbal agreements to be binding, as otherwise a lot of simple everyday things would require written agreements. Ie hailing a taxi, ordering in a restaurant, etc etc.
Eywa-
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada4876 Posts
October 11 2016 16:03 GMT
#260
On October 12 2016 00:44 stink123 wrote:
While it is not recommended, a verbal contract is considered binding in the US(probably elsewhere as well). And with the released message transcripts, it can be considered a written agreement as well. And its pretty important for verbal agreements to be binding, as otherwise a lot of simple everyday things would require written agreements. Ie hailing a taxi, ordering in a restaurant, etc etc.

With evidence, yes, however, the blogs are mostly opinion pieces of people who were directly affected. There are very few facts in the blog other than: The players have had a hard time getting paid on time.
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