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Capped
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom7236 Posts
July 21 2011 15:25 GMT
#3241
EG on the rise, now all they have to do is get rid of Idra, and i'll actually like them, as opposed to certain EG players .

I dont see EG doing anything wrong, as the dude above me said, if TSL had a decent contract with Puma, and he was experiencing what he wanted, he wouldnt have left. EG made an offer, Puma accepted, what does it matter what order things were done in, TSL doesnt "Own" Puma no matter what it says in a contract, if they refused to release him puma would have lived out his contract and left anyways, thats all they hold over him.
Useless wet fish.
Tsuki.eu
Profile Joined May 2011
Portugal1049 Posts
July 21 2011 15:25 GMT
#3242
EG has a new ace hihi
nihlon
Profile Joined April 2010
Sweden5581 Posts
July 21 2011 15:25 GMT
#3243
Correct me if I'm wrong but hasn't there been pretty recent (and old) cases where hockey players have sign in the nhl while under contract? Fedorov or something a long time ago and also a newer one just some years ago. The KHL could basically do nothing to prevent the players from playing in the nhl since there wasn't any agreement between the leagues about the trade rules. In the same way here I doubt that TSL could do nothing legally to prevent him from competing for EG even if he had a contract signed.

^^As a response to the people saying a no-trade clause would help.
Banelings are too cute to blow up
Delinius
Profile Joined March 2011
United States324 Posts
July 21 2011 15:27 GMT
#3244
On July 22 2011 00:19 poorbeggarman wrote:
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On July 22 2011 00:03 zinzio wrote:
If the rumors are true on how EG went about acquiring Puma, I will have to find another team to root for. Even under the suggested conditions (that Puma may not have even made a salary) I can't stand to think EG would have went to Puma directly without speaking to his team/managers. Just seems very dirty and completely unprofessional. Shame on you EG.


Have there been such discussions between teams in the past? I am unfamiliar with BW history.

What would've happened if EG DID approach TSL before talking to Puma anyway


If EG asked and TSL didn't like it, Puma would've taken the deal anyways.
Charger
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States2405 Posts
July 21 2011 15:27 GMT
#3245
On July 22 2011 00:17 echO [W] wrote:
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On July 22 2011 00:14 Charger wrote:
On July 22 2011 00:09 denzelz wrote:
On July 22 2011 00:03 zinzio wrote:
If the rumors are true on how EG went about acquiring Puma, I will have to find another team to root for. Even under the suggested conditions (that Puma may not have even made a salary) I can't stand to think EG would have went to Puma directly without speaking to his team/managers. Just seems very dirty and completely unprofessional. Shame on you EG.


I think not many people on TL follow professional sports so they don't understand how egregious poaching a player from a team is.


As has been said many many times, this is nothing like professional sports. There is no all encompassing league with teams and owners and there is no player's union. It is way more akin to normal jobs/companies that operate independently from one another than professional sports where every team/player/owner interact only with one another.

I think the key element of sports that is alike in both professional sports today, and professional e-sports today, is the team element and the amount of time these players spend with each other. In Korea especially, and I think given how much time they spend together, they are very much like family, and to them I can see how it feels like they were walked out on by a family member/brother, rather than say an employee at a corporation.


Fair enough, and I think I pretty much agree with this. However, I liken this situation to more of something like a young, talented kid at Google accepts a new job at Apple because they offered him a better salary. Sure the guy could really like all his friends/coworkers at his old job but if he has the opportunity to make significantly more money elsewhere, he will go and, most importantly, he CAN go. Apple wouldn't have to call up Google and make sure it's ok first, they can go to the employee and give him an offer and try to recruit him.

I'm sure it hurts his friends/teammates/coaches but rarely will every decision you make make everyone happy. Live on Three last night said it well - losing a player always hurts no matter how it happens. I hope Puma hasn't burned any bridges and I hope after the sting goes away TSL realizes this was a business a decision and nothing personal against TSL.
It's easy to be a Monday morning quarterback.
TedJustice
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Canada1324 Posts
July 21 2011 15:27 GMT
#3246
Who's he going to practice with if he's staying in Korea?
denzelz
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States604 Posts
July 21 2011 15:28 GMT
#3247
On July 22 2011 00:24 Proko wrote:
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On July 22 2011 00:19 denzelz wrote:
On July 22 2011 00:13 AmericanUmlaut wrote:
On July 21 2011 23:44 venge1155 wrote:
I can not wait until some of you get real jobs, with real contracts and try to leave with a head hunter. Tell me how that works out for you.

I'm guessing you don't know what you're talking about. Employment in the US (where your profile indicates you're posting from) is generally at-will. You can walk away with a head hunter, and it will work out for you just fine. Your contract might specify a notification period before you can leave, but a head hunter doesn't need to talk to your boss before offering you a job.


Try getting hired, and trained by one company, and then leaving in a month for another company. See how that does for your career. You have no idea what professional ethics are for jobs in the U.S. Most jobs are not like McDonalds and companies invest millions of dollars to train new employees. Financial analysts are a perfect example of this. You are entrusted with a lot of company secrets and if you leave for a competing company for higher salary (aka poaching), it is HUGELY looked down upon.


That's why you make non-disclosure and non-complete clauses in contracts. It's really pretty simple.


And you know for certain that TSL did not have a non-complete contract with Puma right? And it's not just because it takes a huge amount of money to prove damages and to sue someone over a contract in court, right?
mustache
Profile Joined April 2010
Switzerland309 Posts
July 21 2011 15:29 GMT
#3248
On July 22 2011 00:25 Capped wrote:
EG on the rise, now all they have to do is get rid of Idra, and i'll actually like them, as opposed to certain EG players .

I dont see EG doing anything wrong, as the dude above me said, if TSL had a decent contract with Puma, and he was experiencing what he wanted, he wouldnt have left. EG made an offer, Puma accepted, what does it matter what order things were done in, TSL doesnt "Own" Puma no matter what it says in a contract, if they refused to release him puma would have lived out his contract and left anyways, thats all they hold over him.


I beleive the problem is that EG talked directly to the player instead of doing the correct thing and talking to the team about aquiring one of their players.
CptnObvious
Profile Joined February 2011
United States54 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-21 15:29:50
July 21 2011 15:29 GMT
#3249
On July 22 2011 00:19 denzelz wrote:
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On July 22 2011 00:13 AmericanUmlaut wrote:
On July 21 2011 23:44 venge1155 wrote:
I can not wait until some of you get real jobs, with real contracts and try to leave with a head hunter. Tell me how that works out for you.

I'm guessing you don't know what you're talking about. Employment in the US (where your profile indicates you're posting from) is generally at-will. You can walk away with a head hunter, and it will work out for you just fine. Your contract might specify a notification period before you can leave, but a head hunter doesn't need to talk to your boss before offering you a job.


Try getting hired, and trained by one company, and then leaving in a month for another company. See how that does for your career. You have no idea what professional ethics are for jobs in the U.S. Most jobs are not like McDonalds and companies invest millions of dollars to train new employees. Financial analysts are a perfect example of this. You are entrusted with a lot of company secrets and if you leave for a competing company for higher salary (aka poaching), it is HUGELY looked down upon.


I am an IT Analyst(what my employer calls it A.K.A software developer) and its a market with alot of contracts, headhunters and signing bonuses. Most of the time you would sign a contract that says if you leave in x amount of time you have to pay back the benefits that you received. This is not necessarily "looked down upon". You may alienate an employer but most people don't expect to go back to the job they are leaving.
arbitrageur
Profile Joined December 2010
Australia1202 Posts
July 21 2011 15:29 GMT
#3250
On July 22 2011 00:27 TedJustice wrote:
Who's he going to practice with if he's staying in Korea?


Everyone.

Watch korean pro gamer streams. They have an stupid amount of practice partners that aren't on their team.
jiveturkey
Profile Joined March 2011
United States18 Posts
July 21 2011 15:29 GMT
#3251
On July 22 2011 00:12 Copenap wrote:
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On July 22 2011 00:05 jiveturkey wrote:
On July 21 2011 23:23 Copenap wrote:
On July 21 2011 23:05 jiveturkey wrote:
On July 21 2011 23:00 Copenap wrote:
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 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.


1. If a team wants to stipulate that they have the exclusive rights to a player's 'talent' if they are the people that cultivated that talent, then they need to put that in a contract. Plain and simple.

2. Really? At 19 people are not able to comprehend offers? I know that I was married, had a full time job, had an apartment, was paying insurance, healthcare bills, and picking a major in schhool that determines my life direction at the age of 19. That's plenty old, and definitely old enough for the parents to be left out of it. That is, unless there is some strange cultural thing I'm missing where Koreans feel that 19 is still a kid. If that's the case, that's sad.


1. It's not about whether it's legal, it's about whether it's ethical.

2. I don't agree at all. 19yr olds are kids and especially vulnerable in a foreign environment. If you think otherwhise, I think we have to agree to disagree. Reminds me of Benjamin Button...

1. And I do not believe there is anything unethical about it either. As I said, EG as a business has an interest in Puma, not TSL. It is Puma's responsibility to decide whether to switch or not. If he decides to switch, it is his responsibility to figure things out with the team he is on.

2. I don't know where this idea comes from of 19 year-old not being able to handle decision making. In most places, you are able to drive, smoke, drink, join the military, go to college to determine your life direction, etc.. at or before the age of 19. 19 is not a kid, it is an adult age.

Maybe there is some cultural divide where some different ages tend to be nurtured too much and hence have a lower maturity level. Maybe cultures have created those types of environments which have different maturity expectations, I don't know. But I know that a 19 year-old brain is fully capable of making a decision such as this.


1. You can do a lot of stuff from a business point of view that is not ethical at all.

2. You are considered an adult by law, that again doesn't make you anything close. You can make these decisions and eventually have to but you shouldn't do that on your own as you don't know shit about life at the age of 19. But I guess a 19yr old never regreted getting married early, picking the wrong direction in his professional life or whatever... Yeah right. When you get older you will eventually realise that you didn't have a clue back then. Money can do weird things if you lack the experience of life.


1. I am aware of that, but I don not believe that it is unethical. I said it is nto EG's responsibility to talk to a team that they have no interest in. It is Puma's moral obligation to do so.

2. I didn't say that it is the law which makes you a capable adult. Fortunately, most law systems DO recognize that people 18 years of age are capable to do things like join the military. I didn't say people don't make mistakes. People in their 20s, 30s, 40s, etc always make mistakes they regret. That does not imply that they are not capable of making right decisions at those points in their lives though.
cubicle47b
Profile Joined October 2010
United States14 Posts
July 21 2011 15:30 GMT
#3252
Good for EG and Puma.
stratmatt
Profile Joined April 2011
United States913 Posts
July 21 2011 15:30 GMT
#3253
im so sick and tired of people complaining every single time a foreign esports team makes a move into korea. who cares about team loyalty? i wanna see the best players competing at the best tournaments and i want to see how the sc2 esports situation evolves internationally. eg doesnt owe tsl a thing. they made an offer that 1-uped what tsl was doing for puma and he pounced on it. last i checked. sc2 is a 1v1 game, not a team game. let puma fend for himself and enjoy the games already. people are ruining this discussion and trying to give eg a bad name for no reason. eg is a superb organization and has been for a very long time, longer than tsl im sure. im excited to see them grow and branch out and get better.
Proko
Profile Joined February 2011
United States1022 Posts
July 21 2011 15:30 GMT
#3254
On July 22 2011 00:28 denzelz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 22 2011 00:24 Proko wrote:
On July 22 2011 00:19 denzelz wrote:
On July 22 2011 00:13 AmericanUmlaut wrote:
On July 21 2011 23:44 venge1155 wrote:
I can not wait until some of you get real jobs, with real contracts and try to leave with a head hunter. Tell me how that works out for you.

I'm guessing you don't know what you're talking about. Employment in the US (where your profile indicates you're posting from) is generally at-will. You can walk away with a head hunter, and it will work out for you just fine. Your contract might specify a notification period before you can leave, but a head hunter doesn't need to talk to your boss before offering you a job.


Try getting hired, and trained by one company, and then leaving in a month for another company. See how that does for your career. You have no idea what professional ethics are for jobs in the U.S. Most jobs are not like McDonalds and companies invest millions of dollars to train new employees. Financial analysts are a perfect example of this. You are entrusted with a lot of company secrets and if you leave for a competing company for higher salary (aka poaching), it is HUGELY looked down upon.


That's why you make non-disclosure and non-complete clauses in contracts. It's really pretty simple.


And you know for certain that TSL did not have a non-complete contract with Puma right? And it's not just because it takes a huge amount of money to prove damages and to sue someone over a contract in court, right?


I was actually just referencing your point about US corporate culture.
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TedJustice
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Canada1324 Posts
July 21 2011 15:31 GMT
#3255
On July 22 2011 00:29 arbitrageur wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 22 2011 00:27 TedJustice wrote:
Who's he going to practice with if he's staying in Korea?


Everyone.

Watch korean pro gamer streams. They have an stupid amount of practice partners that aren't on their team.

Still, he's basically a one-man team out there now. I hope EG gets some more koreans, or maybe sends some of their players to korea, since it's obviously better to practice in a team environment.
Phanekim
Profile Joined April 2003
United States777 Posts
July 21 2011 15:31 GMT
#3256
This is what we call "the western way". haha. good for puma.
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00Visor
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
4337 Posts
July 21 2011 15:31 GMT
#3257
I don't get how you can still be arguing.

The TSL coach is mad, Milkis is mad, the Korean fans are mad.

It doesnt matter if WE think it is right or wrong. We have to respect Korean ethics/rules as well. And from their view it was obviously the wrong way to do this deal.
Techno
Profile Joined June 2010
1900 Posts
July 21 2011 15:32 GMT
#3258
Interesting. I hope he's EGPuma, not EGGentleman.

Part of me thinks this won't last.

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zinzio
Profile Joined March 2011
24 Posts
July 21 2011 15:33 GMT
#3259
On July 22 2011 00:31 00Visor wrote:
I don't get how you can still be arguing.

The TSL coach is mad, Milkis is mad, the Korean fans are mad.

It doesnt matter if WE think it is right or wrong. We have to respect Korean ethics/rules as well. And from their view it was obviously the wrong way to do this deal.


I think this is the point many people are missing...
carloselcoco
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States2302 Posts
July 21 2011 15:33 GMT
#3260
I don't like this just because of the way it was done.
I am happy that Puma is "expanding" but unhappy and kind of mad that EG never approached TSL and ask them their opinion on the matter.
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