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Gamegene
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States8308 Posts
July 21 2011 09:03 GMT
#1981
On July 21 2011 18:03 Slakter wrote:
Stuff like this actually makes me miss Kespa.

Now that is something I didnt think I would say for a while.


Shit, someone had to say it.
Throw on your favorite jacket and you're good to roll. Stroll through the trees and let your miseries go.
starcraft2rush
Profile Joined February 2011
306 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-21 09:07:28
July 21 2011 09:03 GMT
#1982
On July 21 2011 18:02 KeksX wrote:
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On July 21 2011 18:01 Demonace34 wrote:
On July 21 2011 17:58 vrok wrote:
On July 21 2011 17:34 setzer wrote:
On July 21 2011 17:28 Stuv wrote:
It makes you wonder what EG gets from this deal. I dont think he will live with the other EG-members so they have an extra practice partner. So it is purely for promotion during tournaments. He is a great player though so kudo's to EG.


They want to fly Puma and have him win tournaments since no one else besides Idra is capable of doing that.

Idra is capable of winning LAN tournaments? Source please.


How many MLG's has there been? Wait, did he win one of those....last year maybe?

Against foreigners, maybe?
Then suddenly koreans, IdrA not winning. A coincidence?


Idra got 4th.?? everyone else got fukin slaughtered by the koreans as well. Thorzain, Select, Naniwa, all slaughtered horribly
Demonaz
Profile Joined January 2011
United Kingdom1219 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-21 09:05:47
July 21 2011 09:04 GMT
#1983
Sounds like great news, I like the idea that Korean players are willing to join foreign teams now. Shows how strong the western e-sports scene has become. Adds to the global nature of current competition.

I guess from Puma's perspective, in Korea he has to fight through code B/A to get to any decent money from SC2 while by joining EG he can participate in lots of foreign tournaments and have more immediate success. I was very impressed with his play at NASL considering he's relatively unknown, can't wait to see what he can achieve with EG. I wonder if he will be moving to the USA?
nam nam
Profile Joined June 2010
Sweden4672 Posts
July 21 2011 09:04 GMT
#1984
On July 21 2011 17:58 alexhard wrote:
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On July 21 2011 17:55 Hatorade wrote:
Happens all the time in sports, yeah maybe EG could have talked to the coach but at the end of the day Puma made the choice. You cannot blame EG really for pursuing a great player when they have the resources to pay him what he wants. Hopefully he does well with EG and hopefully TSL rebuilds and keeps doing well as well.


Actually it never happens in any other sport. Players are contracted and if other teams want them, they have to pay transfer fees.

You seriously believe this?
FryktSkyene
Profile Joined December 2010
United States1327 Posts
July 21 2011 09:04 GMT
#1985
On July 21 2011 18:01 hYdrA-MeNo wrote:
EG has the right to offer anyone anything and anyone has the ability to take or dismiss his offer. The people here flaming puma are not only moron but are people who dont understand the nature of competition.


This is true. But I think that coach lee is upset because he wasen't talk to first and from what i've read in Korea thats how things work. So it was a sign of disrespect not to talk to him first. It's not just about EG
Snitches get stiches
GoBackToGo
Profile Joined July 2010
187 Posts
July 21 2011 09:04 GMT
#1986
On July 21 2011 17:54 Vei wrote:
I feel like the ban on the "f5" post is really unwarrented.. that was posted when this thread was posted with little more than a title and a note that an update was coming -- he was just creatively expressing what everyone was thinking.... ugh..

exactly. if those "f5" guys had posted something like "cant wait for more infos", nothing would have happened. saying "F5!!!!!" is basically the same thing.
not the first time on TL that i noticed someone was very proud of his banning abilities. grow up.
PeZuY
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
935 Posts
July 21 2011 09:04 GMT
#1987
I undestand that TSL is falling apart, but EG not even contacting management just directly to the player. Wow... Really not sure how to react to this news personally.
Pajegetc
Profile Joined February 2011
United States3158 Posts
July 21 2011 09:04 GMT
#1988
Congrats to EG for finally picking up a strong Terran!
Lose Early game - Cheese. Lose Mid Game - All Ined. Lose Late Game - OMG IMBALANCE. My Guide to Zerg LR.
Eurekastreet
Profile Joined November 2010
1308 Posts
July 21 2011 09:04 GMT
#1989
On July 21 2011 17:37 seiferoth10 wrote:
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On July 21 2011 17:33 Cuddle wrote:
I don't understand how this is terrible by either Puma or EG.

I have a job, I'm contracted and have a salary. I get job offers by other companies every now and then, I talk to them about what they offer and when I find something I prefer to my current work situation (be it better pay, better work environment or what have you) I go tell my current boss that I have gotten a better offer and I resign my position. According to basic Swedish employee law (which is in my contract) I have to stay on for 3 month after quitting (to give my employee a chance to find a replacement) BUT we can negotiate this time down to 0 days if both parts agree.

It seems like this was exactly what happened in the Puma-EG case and I don't see anything wrong with it, at all. If TSL wanted to hold Puma to his contract, they could probably have and EG would have had to wait until it expired. They chose not to, in agreement with Puma. Case closed.

Oh thank god, someone with a brain. You are a rare breed.



Don't fully agree. I used to work (in Sweden) in a company that's #1 worldwide in its field (not that it matters too much but just saying it was not a 2 people thing) . At some point, one of our competitors had organisation issues while at the same time having bad financial results while we were doing good...in some attempt to fix that, they started to call "our" employees directly, offering them more money for the same job. Some people accepted, then some employees informed our management of what was happening. Management from company called management from company and that shit stopped very quickly.
Business is war they say, and yes workers have freedom of movement and so on, but you gotta keep ethics in the game too otherwise it's going nowhere. If you say those things don't matter, then what good is it to have a management ? what about team spirit ? why would any team refrain from contacting any EG player directly, bypassing scoots to have them come to a new team in no time ? Imagine scoots trusts -say- that Idra would stay in EG forever and then tomorrow he learns that he moved to - team X- for a shitload of cash, it'd be normal for the team management and the other players to be disappointed, plus it probably means less sponsor money in the short term, and so on and so on.

I don't wanna compare this to the situation with EG/Puma/TSL since I don't know what happened, my point is just, money/contract can't be everything, respect for your present team/players/collegas/friends and so on is important too. If the TSL manager is upset about it all (and Cliiiiiiiiiide too), it must be that someone did something wrong somewhere. Puma ? EG ? Tsl ? Everybody ?




"2 cannons, it's not one cannons" - White-Ra
Namu
Profile Joined February 2011
United States826 Posts
July 21 2011 09:04 GMT
#1990
On July 21 2011 18:03 Tachion wrote:
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On July 21 2011 17:59 Namu wrote:
On July 21 2011 17:59 Tachion wrote:
On July 21 2011 17:58 Namu wrote:
On July 21 2011 17:57 Tachion wrote:
Players like Sheth and QXC left ROOT for FXO because of money and travel expenses etc which ROOT couldn't provide. FXOBoss sure didn't consult drewbie and catz and ask them for their permission.
Is this a disrespecting Korean ethics thing? Cause stuff like this is very common when players switch teams in the west.


uh no its not, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampering_(sport)

I'm talking about the starcraft scene ;o


yeah cause the west surely has a good starcraft scene infrastructure that everyone should follow right? more like there's basically no structure because there's no governing body...

And what infrastructure is there in the Korean scene? It's already been stated that their players weren't even under contract. Their scene right now is basically throw a bunch of guys in a house together for practice and that's that.


that's my entire point, there IS no structure, and you're saying this incidence is fine because it's fine in the west, where there is ALSO no structure? your point makes no sense
Iroh
Profile Joined February 2011
England48 Posts
July 21 2011 09:04 GMT
#1991
On July 21 2011 17:55 zzdd wrote:
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On July 21 2011 17:53 Iroh wrote:
On July 21 2011 17:40 nam nam wrote:
On July 21 2011 17:33 Cuddle wrote:
I don't understand how this is terrible by either Puma or EG.

I have a job, I'm contracted and have a salary. I get job offers by other companies every now and then, I talk to them about what they offer and when I find something I prefer to my current work situation (be it better pay, better work environment or what have you) I go tell my current boss that I have gotten a better offer and I resign my position. According to basic Swedish employee law (which is in my contract) I have to stay on for 3 month after quitting (to give my employee a chance to find a replacement) BUT we can negotiate this time down to 0 days if both parts agree.

It seems like this was exactly what happened in the Puma-EG case and I don't see anything wrong with it, at all. If TSL wanted to hold Puma to his contract, they could probably have and EG would have had to wait until it expired. They chose not to, in agreement with Puma. Case closed.


This is what I've been trying to say only not as well. Of course you could argue that it's a little different for sports but just for the reasons you wrote I can't understand the rage that are being directed at EG.


It's very different in sport. If a team works it's butt off to get a player better, finally to see him win over some great players and win something like NASL, only to have him sniped away. Very different to the work place.

In any sport/esport the team is working to get these players better for the players and themselves and to have another team just pick them away after the harder work is done should be stopped. EG should of atleast talked to TSL first and shown interest and ask to speak to him. Without something like that starcraft 2 will not be as strong as players will just jump about and things like the GSTL could be dominated by 1 team and every season lineups be completely different (an over exaggeration but it *could* happen with it being like this).

Actually everyone in the entire world had a job they started out, learned from and then get promoted or get a better offer. This is no different.


I work as an undertaker, my job is to provide a good service of care on funerals. I recieved training and will progress to get better and gain experience. I could get a better offer and it would be a loss for my employer but he could find someone to replace me.

Someone involved in sports whole purpose is to train and get better. Which is different in the way that everyday they train whereas in a job you only do a bit to achieve your level. In most jobs there will always be someone to replace you, in a sport there will be...but they could be slower, unfit, wrong attitude and take another month or so of training to get close to being as good or maybe never live up to another players greatness. And the teams job is to win, not to provide a good service, they are paying these players to train and get better. For a team to support a player and work to get him better then have him taken without any talk between managers is terrible. Which is why in most sports there is this kind of agreement, and it is needed in esports.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
trikshun
Profile Joined October 2010
United States437 Posts
July 21 2011 09:04 GMT
#1992
On July 21 2011 18:02 Beyonder wrote:
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On July 21 2011 17:49 Sententia wrote:
Puma isn't just an object auctioned for the highest bidder, if he had wanted to stay in TSL he could easily have done so regardless of the pay raise EG offered. My bet is that Puma wanted to be on a more successful team, practicing with better players.

I wouldnt become a professional gambler. EG has exactly one decent practice partner


You are calling DeMuslim bad? and idrA decent? He is probably one of the top 5 foreigners in SC2
Scrandom
Profile Joined February 2011
Canada2819 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-21 09:05:46
July 21 2011 09:04 GMT
#1993
wait what....I guess IdrA has someone to help secure wins in team leagues lol but seriously what...


And I hope for the sake of both sides nothing dirty went on, ie directly offering the guy big money without informing anyone else
KeksX
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Germany3634 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-21 09:05:09
July 21 2011 09:04 GMT
#1994
On July 21 2011 18:03 starcraft2rush wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 21 2011 18:02 KeksX wrote:
On July 21 2011 18:01 Demonace34 wrote:
On July 21 2011 17:58 vrok wrote:
On July 21 2011 17:34 setzer wrote:
On July 21 2011 17:28 Stuv wrote:
It makes you wonder what EG gets from this deal. I dont think he will live with the other EG-members so they have an extra practice partner. So it is purely for promotion during tournaments. He is a great player though so kudo's to EG.


They want to fly Puma and have him win tournaments since no one else besides Idra is capable of doing that.

Idra is capable of winning LAN tournaments? Source please.


How many MLG's has there been? Wait, did he win one of those....last year maybe?

Against foreigners, maybe?
Then suddenly koreans, IdrA not winning. A coincidence?


Idra got 4th.?? everyone else got fukin slaughtered by the koreans as well.

The point is that IdrA can't stand against the koreans constantly, he is not at their level. How is that going to help against koreans?

Yea sure, PuMa will beat foreigners, too, but he won't be able to beat koreans constantly by just practicing with bad players.
vojnik
Profile Joined October 2010
Macedonia923 Posts
July 21 2011 09:05 GMT
#1995
On July 21 2011 18:01 IcedBacon wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 21 2011 17:55 yeint wrote:
On July 21 2011 17:49 IcedBacon wrote:
I like how 99% of the people posting about this have absolutely no knowledge or experience with how korean culture works. It's not the same guys. The dumb analogy with the employer? Doesn't work when it's between the West and the East. Time to go to bed.


Just because the corporate culture in Asia loves to exploit their cultural propensity for respect of one's elders doesn't make it okay. It's tantamount to defending good ol' boy white male preferentialism because it's rooted in regional cultural values.

The "employer/employee" relationship isn't an analogy, it's a fact. This isn't a martial arts movie, this is real life. People need to earn money to live, and they do so by working for organizations that pay them for it.


Ah, complete disrespect of another culture. Sorry but not everyone is greedy like in the West. So you know how in this recession in the USA, CEOs are giving themselves and other high-ranking employees raises when there's no spare cash to be throwing around? Well there was some article about a Japanese CEO (of a huge company, FYI) who lowered his pay to either that of the average employee or even to nothing (can't remember which one it was) and had his lunch in the common cafeteria with the average employees. Something about respect and not wasting money when there's nothing to be spared. It's the same in Korea and plenty of other Asian countries. Family and respect, not individualism and capitalism.


Ye and the Nike factories in Asia are a huge happy familly
For the swarm!
hYdrA-MeNo
Profile Joined January 2010
Mexico344 Posts
July 21 2011 09:05 GMT
#1996
On July 21 2011 18:02 Namu wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 21 2011 18:01 jmbthirteen wrote:
On July 21 2011 17:58 Namu wrote:
On July 21 2011 17:57 Tachion wrote:
Players like Sheth and QXC left ROOT for FXO because of money and travel expenses etc which ROOT couldn't provide. FXOBoss sure didn't consult drewbie and catz and ask them for their permission.
Is this a disrespecting Korean ethics thing? Cause stuff like this is very common when players switch teams in the west.


uh no its not, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampering_(sport)

Except there are no rules in place to say EG tampered...


we're comparing scenes here, obviously? I know there are no rules in place to say EG tampered, but talking in comparison, that is EXACTLY what EG did (assuming the content in OP is correct). Now assuming Puma did not have a binding contract, it's obviously legally not a problem, but morally? not so sure..


Morals??!?!?!? lol Your thinking like PUMA owes something to TSL..... He owes them nothing and EG has the right to try an make their team the best possible team they can please explain to me what they did wrong? They talked to puma when they were close? ohhhhhh noooooooo -.-.....
Cant Tell you Whats good....But i can tell you what's what
Taf the Ghost
Profile Joined December 2010
United States11751 Posts
July 21 2011 09:05 GMT
#1997
On July 21 2011 17:53 Kairos~ wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 21 2011 17:52 MrBorto wrote:

Upsetting the entire Korean community is not exactly a wise move.


This seems like the key problem. In the short term how comfortable are korean teams going to be now sending players to events like MLG? The future of these exchanges are literally at stake with this type of business practice.

I wonder who EG is going to snatch up at Anaheim. (:


The terms "D" "R" and "G" come to mind. That'd be nuts, lol.
FinnGamer
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Germany2426 Posts
July 21 2011 09:05 GMT
#1998
I can understand that the TSL manager is angry, he just won a 50k tournament and he loses his player without being informed of the offer first.
I hope PuMa will have a good time on EG and that he joins the EG House
"hopefully swing the favor in your advantage." - Day[9]
Skee
Profile Joined March 2010
Canada702 Posts
July 21 2011 09:05 GMT
#1999
This is cool! What race does he play?
ZAiNs
Profile Joined July 2010
United Kingdom6525 Posts
July 21 2011 09:06 GMT
#2000
I feel really bad for TSL .
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