Three days ago at the ESEA LAN, Blackfoger's credit card was declined at the hotel reception when his CS: Source team tried to check in. 4shot called Blackfoger and tried to find out what the hell was going on and Blackfoger informed him that the team would have to pay for the hotel themselves. The squad got shafted for $500. Before the event, Blackfoger had begged Christina for $900 to pay for the expenses.
There have also been repeated instances of this happen to their TF2 teams across several seasons of play. Blackfoger is a joke among the TF2 community, and is a terrible "sponsor".
Blight has always been a shady organization especially in the CS scene so idk why anybody would trust them after what they have done in other scenes previously so I mean.. yeah
Interesting, will ONE keep representing them or risk them not doing what they say? Judging from what I have seen of blight in articles they really are a bunch of liars. Sucks for the teams I know i'd be pist if i were in that situation :/.
Wow talk about the perfect opportunity to introduce one of the funniest parody of all time. I used to play with this kid in TF2 pubs and even asked him about this parody and all he had to say was that it wasn't funny. Also he said this kid was stalking him but that parody is still fucking hilarious. My favorite parody of all time just because he is making fun of such a tool so perfectly. Enjoy
Parody to Blackfoger's inviting steam friends video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUTs66EoMSE
Original Blackfoger video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l7eR2ViyYM
Seriously, with Blackfoger's past in E-Sports this is not a shocker, and you are going to see good honest teams like ONE end up getting put in some kind of a fucked up situation like this down the road.
On May 05 2011 06:16 RyanRushia wrote: wow relaly hope ONE and stoic can get out of there quickly... seems to be living up their word eh
I dont think there is much to worry about from our end, stoic never had plans to go outside of their means anyways, and ONE is a pretty well managed organization from what I've seen, its impossible for stoic to get screwed, and I assume its the same for ONE, thanks for the concern though, still see you at MLG :D.
Blackfoger has always been a giant twat, I've talked to briefly him before and he act's like a complete stuck up tool. I've seen him, CEVO | Celone and Mika of Mika-Gaming fame all bash each other on netcode-illuminati. All I can say is that I hope BG's SC2 team isn't expecting anything but a name to play under.
On May 05 2011 06:20 Torte de Lini wrote: Isn't this sort of shit in writing or in a contract?
It's often not beneficial to try and initiate a inter-state or even cross-country lawsuit over $500 or whatever. The court costs alone will be close to that.
That's how people like Blight survive it seems, they base their existence on the fact that no one will take the time to sue them. That and teams like ONE see their history with everything and still think it's a magic ticket to being E-Sports superstars and it's somehow going to be different "this time", and sign anyways.
Either way, such a shame a good team like ONE got caught up with this org, now they will spend more time being known as the team that teamed up with that shady org Blight instead of being known as a quality team with some real up and coming talent.
I'm actually surprised that ONE decided to be anywhere near Blackfoger. Someone in that clan has to have heard of him, or at least done a google search or some other research ?
Lets hope ONE doesn't get burned on this, but going by blackfogers reputation..