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TheSilverfox
Profile Joined December 2010
Sweden1928 Posts
July 21 2011 14:00 GMT
#2941
This is a tweet from TSL_Korea:

"EG!! that's a lie. Puma Good luck. TSL Everyone you want to be a good gamer. good bye."
http://twitter.com/TSL_korea/status/94017113055956993

Have I missed something, a statement from EG or something like that?
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Clbull
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United Kingdom1439 Posts
July 21 2011 14:00 GMT
#2942
On July 21 2011 22:58 AgentV wrote:
Maybe EG is going to acquire TSL next. EG Korea brand sounds awesome! =))

FXO already acquired For Our Utopia and formed FXO Korea. Somehow this wouldn't surprise me.
AxionSteel
Profile Joined January 2011
United States7754 Posts
July 21 2011 14:00 GMT
#2943
On July 21 2011 22:21 Grimsong wrote:
Puma's taking his talents to EG.


Haha, nice one
Garnet
Profile Blog Joined February 2006
Vietnam9033 Posts
July 21 2011 14:00 GMT
#2944
This is probably the fastest growing thread on TL.
PBG
Profile Joined June 2011
40 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-21 14:02:28
July 21 2011 14:00 GMT
#2945
On July 21 2011 22:53 Enigma614 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 21 2011 22:48 Xiaon wrote:
On July 21 2011 22:47 Enigma614 wrote:
On July 21 2011 22:30 Xiaon wrote:
팀원을 비롯한 많은분들과 그렇게 많은고민을하고햇는대도 이렇게.......... .................
from pumas twitter
someone translate


And so a lot of issues, including the contributions from the whole team, and this metropolitan haetneun

Google is your friend... try it =/

that makes n osense

thats not what it said anyway



http://translate.google.com

try it



if it were that simple then we wouldn't need translators at all would we?

Google translate fails hard and I laugh every time when I see people trying to talk to korean streamers like slayers dragon using google translate as most of the phrases make no sense at all.

Probably not the best example but try typing something in english and translating it into Swedish and my guess what it spits back out isn't what you originally typed. I won't make any guesses about the Swedish language(just making an assumption based on your location) but like Korean it probably has a different grammatical structure than english much like korean does.
Bawert
Profile Joined October 2010
United States16 Posts
July 21 2011 14:00 GMT
#2946
This is so awesome for EG and foriegn esports. Congrats Puma and Evil Geniuses!
Xiaon
Profile Joined May 2011
United States245 Posts
July 21 2011 14:00 GMT
#2947
On July 21 2011 23:00 TheSilverfox wrote:
This is a tweet from TSL_Korea:

"EG!! that's a lie. Puma Good luck. TSL Everyone you want to be a good gamer. good bye."
http://twitter.com/TSL_korea/status/94017113055956993

Have I missed something, a statement from EG or something like that?

Evil Geniuses!! that's a lie.
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Copenap
Profile Joined October 2010
723 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-21 14:04:52
July 21 2011 14:00 GMT
#2948
On July 21 2011 22:48 meadbert wrote:
So in the real world when someone wants to hire me they call me, not my current manager. Why should it be different in esports? If Puma had some contractual obligation then he would need to negotiate out of the contract. What is it with management acting as if they own their employees? That is not how it operates in America at all.


1. TSL made it possible for Puma to become this good and basicly paid for his "qualification". Now that finally that pays dividends EG comes a picks him up instead of putting the money in developing own talents.

2. What's even worse imo (if that is all true, I'm still waiting for an official statement), you don't approach a 19yr old boy who's probably abroad for the first time and make him an offer a kid can't really comprehend. Wait for him to return home to korea and contact him and his parents while also informing TSL of this move, that would have been the better way.

We still don't know everything but the op states that they contacted him while the tournament wasn't even finished and that's not responsible at all imo, even if I certainly hope he took this offer home and discussed it throroughly with his parents.

My statement is obviously only valid under the assumption that the op is correct. In that case I don't agree with the behaviour of EG.

Edit:
On July 21 2011 23:00 Xiaon wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 21 2011 23:00 TheSilverfox wrote:
This is a tweet from TSL_Korea:

"EG!! that's a lie. Puma Good luck. TSL Everyone you want to be a good gamer. good bye."
http://twitter.com/TSL_korea/status/94017113055956993

Have I missed something, a statement from EG or something like that?

Evil Geniuses!! that's a lie.


Sound to me like TSl is stating that they didn't say anything bad about EG and the statement in the op may be wrong? That would obviously change a lot so I just hope we get clarification.
jiveturkey
Profile Joined March 2011
United States18 Posts
July 21 2011 14:00 GMT
#2949
I like how people say that they 'stole' him. As if players are property.

And there is nothing wrong with bypassing management. If they would have gone through TSL as opposed to talking to Puma directly, Puma most likely would not have joined EG because the TSL management would most likely twist the offer in a way that Puma would not want to join. They are desperate to keep their best player.

Talking directly to him allows them to give him the straight up offer. If it's a good enough offer, he'll take it. If not, then he will not. This is a mutually beneficial arrangement and people should be happy for both EG and Puma.

"IMO it takes a fairly scumbag person aka organization to approach PUMA personally like this."

Why? He is a person. If you want to offer a person something, then do it. It makes no sense to go through that person's management. It is not EG's responsibility to talk to the team of a player they are interested in. They are simply interested in the player, and it his that player's obligation to figure things out with his team, which he obviously did.
SoniStreet
Profile Joined October 2010
Macedonia98 Posts
July 21 2011 14:00 GMT
#2950
On July 21 2011 22:57 Enigma614 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 21 2011 22:53 moonmeh wrote:
On July 21 2011 22:47 Enigma614 wrote:
On July 21 2011 22:30 Xiaon wrote:
팀원을 비롯한 많은분들과 그렇게 많은고민을하고햇는대도 이렇게.......... .................
from pumas twitter
someone translate


And so a lot of issues, including the contributions from the whole team, and this metropolitan haetneun

Google is your friend... try it =/


Dude that made no sense what so ever

Actual translation

팀원을 비롯한 많은분들과 그렇게 많은고민을하고햇는대도 이렇게.......... .................

I spoke with many people including my teamates and thought/pondered about it a lot and yet.....


Thanks for clarifying.... mind it be after the fact... sorry for my Korean translation as I have never studied it, but was not lazy enough to attempt to find the answer unlike many in the internet world

It's not about being lazy but being accurate, it doesn't take effort to copy paste a phrase in google, in-fact this is the lazier solution then writing it on TL and asking kindly for help from native speaker.
Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain
Numy
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
South Africa35471 Posts
July 21 2011 14:02 GMT
#2951
On July 21 2011 22:59 Proko wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 21 2011 22:53 Numy wrote:
On July 21 2011 22:50 Proko wrote:
On July 21 2011 22:48 Numy wrote:
On July 21 2011 22:46 DyEnasTy wrote:
I think thats a BS comment by TSL coach: "foreign teams stealing korean players". They make it sound like the world is a terrible plague that "stole the life" from their player. Wish him the best and move on. And why are people pissed at EG? They just got a powerhouse player, be happy.


Congrats EG, he will add alot of strength to your lineup.

oh and will he be living in the team house?


Picture you were the coach. Your young player goes overseas to compete in an event. He comes back and tells you he wants/thinking to leave the team for a foreign team. I imagine you would be outraged.



Then picture yourself offering him more money and perks than the foreign team did and him saying, "you're right, I really did want to stay on my team and play in my homeland."


You really don't get it do you. It's all well and fine that they can pay him more and that he left. It's just how it happened that caused this. I'm sure if TSL and Puma were spoken to then none of this drama would have happened. Please remove your fanboy blinds and actually think.

Anyway cool to see Puma at more events and best of luck to him.


You really don't get it do you? TSL could have kept him if they wanted and could afford it. they couldn't and they are mad so they are starting a shitstorm about it. Take off your villainy glasses and see it for what it is. TSL is falling apart and the coach doesn't like it. Starts whining publically. It's retarded to think that Scoots has to go and talk to TSL's coach to make an offer to one of his players, write your contracts better and pay the player what he's worth. One of the problems with Kespa was that it treated (and treats) players like cattle. Lucky, SC2 doesn't have that problem.


I like EG, they have my favourite player. I also like Puma and TSL. You are assuming I view things in a certain way in order to push your own belief. You have shown you don't like TSL and have shat all over them. So who here is the one with shaded glasses?
10or10
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Sweden517 Posts
July 21 2011 14:03 GMT
#2952
On July 21 2011 16:03 10or10 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 21 2011 15:54 10or10 wrote:
On July 21 2011 15:46 Torpedo.Vegas wrote:
On July 21 2011 15:44 Shewklad wrote:
Ahh... Good old United States of America. It's all about the $$$ - Too bad you're soon out of $.


Low blow. Just for that, we wont be buying any more swedish fish OR meatballs. How do you like them apples?

Yeah, it's not like any swedes was involved in the CS1.6 affair with gux, delpan, fnatic & SK.

Similiar situation this; like gux-thingy if it Puma wasn't under contract and like delpan if Puma had a contract... either way sirscoots commented on it on Lo3 in a pretty critical manner then so I would assume he has an explanation.

some reading for those interested: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=227816

I don't remember what episode of Lo3 this was discussed, one in may I would assume... anyone know?

Found the episode: Lo3 #74, http://blip.tv/liveonthree/live-on-three-e74-06-01-2011-5232876 (approx. last 15 min of the episode ) basically sirscoots says if a player is contracted to another organization he would informally ask the player for interest at first, then he would go to the manager holding the players contract and discuss a deal. And that's if the organizations should play nice with each other (as there aren't any organizational agreements or contracts between the organizations), any legal issues would be between the contracted player and the organization. But he didn't like the way fnatic and sk didn't play nice.

So my initial memory was wrong: sirscoots didn't say anything critical about uncontracted players, but only fnatic and SKs handling of contracted players and a wish for them all [e-sport teams] to play nice with one another.
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Ome
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada157 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-21 14:04:13
July 21 2011 14:03 GMT
#2953
Don't really see how anyone can be mad at EG or Puma for this (besides his team). They offered him a contract, he obviously weighed the pros and cons, and was willing to pay the penalties (if there were any) for breaching his contract with TSL (if there was a contract).

In North American pro sports, the same thing would happen if there weren't penalties for doing so, ie not allowing the player to play at all unless he fulfills his contract completely. SC2 is not at that point yet, and I'm not sure it ever will be.

EG obviously offered Puma something TSL couldn't, whether it's a higher salary or just the chance to go to more foreign events, we don't know the details. I'm excited to see Puma at more foreign events though.
AmericanUmlaut
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Germany2590 Posts
July 21 2011 14:04 GMT
#2954
On July 21 2011 22:55 Enigma614 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 21 2011 22:50 Teoita wrote:
On July 21 2011 22:47 Enigma614 wrote:
On July 21 2011 22:30 Xiaon wrote:
팀원을 비롯한 많은분들과 그렇게 많은고민을하고햇는대도 이렇게.......... .................
from pumas twitter
someone translate


And so a lot of issues, including the contributions from the whole team, and this metropolitan haetneun

Google is your friend... try it =/


Congratulations, you are definitely the first one to try google translate and realize it's shit and what it translates makes in fact no sense at all.



Thank you for your contribution to answer the persons question... at least an attempt was made, might it be not by you.

Posting gibberish that no one can understand is not a contribution to answer the person's question, and you compounded the asshattery by adding a snide comment. Just don't ever use automated translation tools to generate content around here. Especially not for Asian languages. We've got lots of very talented folks around here that can extract meaning from the Hangul.
The frumious Bandersnatch
Fishriot
Profile Joined May 2010
United States621 Posts
July 21 2011 14:04 GMT
#2955
On July 21 2011 22:56 Aegeis wrote:
I am already looking forward to the damage control that EG will do on Live on 3.


I think Live on 3 lost most of its credibility after the last EG public relations fuck up.
Sandro
Profile Joined April 2011
897 Posts
July 21 2011 14:04 GMT
#2956
Puma has gone from training with Flash to training with Incontrol.
jakethesnake
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada4948 Posts
July 21 2011 14:05 GMT
#2957
On July 21 2011 22:42 GreEny K wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 21 2011 22:39 Darkong wrote:
Welcome to the world of professional sports where such practises happen ALL the time.


Actually, if you are a contracted player in the MLG, NFL or NBA you are not allowed to do that... It is breaking rules.


Actually, when they are under contract and they want to move, they just whine in the clubhouse. If that doesn't work, they complain to the press. Then, once they become toxic to the team morale, ownership has no choice but to give in to the player and trade them where they want. These kinds of things happen in sports - it just looks different because of the governing body and league rules.
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Lankeer
Profile Joined July 2011
35 Posts
July 21 2011 14:05 GMT
#2958
I can't say I'm surprised that EG has used these underhand and sly tactics to secure a player. Their current roster consists of one notable player (IdrA,) with the rest of them having underperformed consistently. Even if there is no contract, it's incredibly disrespectful to go behind the coach/team's back and accquire their star player. It's also very detrimental to the industry; if we want esports to grow and to be recognised as a legit and professional organisation then we need to eliminate shit like this.
DEN1ED
Profile Joined December 2009
United States1087 Posts
July 21 2011 14:05 GMT
#2959
HAHA, anyone else remember the LO3 after NASL finals where they were talking about koreans dominating and scoots said something along the lines of "I guess it just means I need to go out and get 'a Puma'". He wasn't joking.... I wonder if he will be living in the EG house or staying in korea.
TheSilverfox
Profile Joined December 2010
Sweden1928 Posts
July 21 2011 14:05 GMT
#2960
On July 21 2011 23:00 Xiaon wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 21 2011 23:00 TheSilverfox wrote:
This is a tweet from TSL_Korea:

"EG!! that's a lie. Puma Good luck. TSL Everyone you want to be a good gamer. good bye."
http://twitter.com/TSL_korea/status/94017113055956993

Have I missed something, a statement from EG or something like that?

Evil Geniuses!! that's a lie.


Yes, I do understand that EG stands for Evil Geniuses, thanks for pointing that out though!
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