• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EST 01:19
CET 07:19
KST 15:19
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
RSL Season 3 - Playoffs Preview0RSL Season 3 - RO16 Groups C & D Preview0RSL Season 3 - RO16 Groups A & B Preview2TL.net Map Contest #21: Winners12Intel X Team Liquid Seoul event: Showmatches and Meet the Pros10
Community News
Weekly Cups (Dec 1-7): Clem doubles, Solar gets over the hump1Weekly Cups (Nov 24-30): MaxPax, Clem, herO win2BGE Stara Zagora 2026 announced15[BSL21] Ro.16 Group Stage (C->B->A->D)4Weekly Cups (Nov 17-23): Solar, MaxPax, Clem win3
StarCraft 2
General
Weekly Cups (Dec 1-7): Clem doubles, Solar gets over the hump Chinese SC2 server to reopen; live all-star event in Hangzhou Maestros of the Game: Live Finals Preview (RO4) BGE Stara Zagora 2026 announced Weekly Cups (Nov 24-30): MaxPax, Clem, herO win
Tourneys
2025 RSL Offline Finals Dates + Ticket Sales! Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament Tenacious Turtle Tussle StarCraft2.fi 15th Anniversary Cup RSL Offline Finals Info - Dec 13 and 14!
Strategy
Custom Maps
Map Editor closed ?
External Content
Mutation # 503 Fowl Play Mutation # 502 Negative Reinforcement Mutation # 501 Price of Progress Mutation # 500 Fright night
Brood War
General
[BSL21] RO8 Bracket & Prediction Contest BW General Discussion BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ Let's talk about Metropolis Foreign Brood War
Tourneys
[ASL20] Grand Finals Small VOD Thread 2.0 [Megathread] Daily Proleagues [BSL21] RO16 Group D - Sunday 21:00 CET
Strategy
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Fighting Spirit mining rates Current Meta Game Theory for Starcraft
Other Games
General Games
Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread EVE Corporation Nintendo Switch Thread Path of Exile ZeroSpace Megathread
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
Mafia Game Mode Feedback/Ideas Survivor II: The Amazon Sengoku Mafia TL Mafia Community Thread
Community
General
Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine US Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread YouTube Thread European Politico-economics QA Mega-thread
Fan Clubs
White-Ra Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread [Manga] One Piece Movie Discussion!
Sports
Formula 1 Discussion 2024 - 2026 Football Thread
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
TL+ Announced Where to ask questions and add stream?
Blogs
Online gaming resear…
phantomlancer23
How Sleep Deprivation Affect…
TrAiDoS
I decided to write a webnov…
DjKniteX
James Bond movies ranking - pa…
Topin
Thanks for the RSL
Hildegard
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 1462 users

Puma leaves TSL for EG - Page 174

Forum Index > SC2 General
7189 CommentsPost a Reply
Prev 1 172 173 174 175 176 360 Next
Proko
Profile Joined February 2011
United States1022 Posts
July 21 2011 16:31 GMT
#3461
On July 22 2011 01:24 Walls wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 22 2011 01:18 Proko wrote:
On July 22 2011 01:15 Walls wrote:
On July 22 2011 01:14 Carush wrote:
eg was willing to give something to puma that he wasn't getting from tsl

probably money, but if you don't like it get used to it

money makes the world go round


EG could have and should have done that by talking to coach lee, not to the player... that is how its done normally with other sports.



I absolutely disagree. Coach Lee doesn't own Puma. Only when a contract mandates you to go through management should you go through managedment. the rest of the time you should treat the player like he's a human being and can make his own decisions.


I never said Lee was the owner, I said Lee was the manage. The fact that a player practices with a team a gets better at a certain sport means that they are obligated to that team, and because of that coach lee has the right at least be the first one the get the offer.


Boo.

Maybe Puma was making TSL's players a lot better by practicing with him. Maybe TSL owes Puma enough loyalty to pay him what he's worth. it goes both ways. The point is, unless the contract stipulates that you talk to management first, the only human, ethical way to do this is to go to the player himself. Don't treat people like commodities, treat them like people.
Caster duos should compliment each others' strengths. "You look very handsome today, Tasteless."
Olinim
Profile Joined March 2011
4044 Posts
July 21 2011 16:31 GMT
#3462
On July 22 2011 01:30 TheDougler wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 22 2011 01:26 hyptonic wrote:
Just hope he doesnt have to train with EG lol. They are one of the worst NA teams!


I'm not a big IdrA fan but I certainly disagree with this, can you even name me two north american (not european) teams that they are worse than?

Sixjax, they were beaten 3 -1 by iS some random unknown team. Wouldn't surprise me if vile beat them in a clan war.
vyyye
Profile Joined July 2010
Sweden3917 Posts
July 21 2011 16:31 GMT
#3463
On July 22 2011 01:30 Lankeer wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 22 2011 01:29 vyyye wrote:
On July 22 2011 01:27 Lankeer wrote:
On July 22 2011 01:26 rofa wrote:
I agree with everyone saying that this is a great move for EG. Sure, it sucks for the TSL team and management, having helped train and support Puma but the bottom line is that this will be awesome for the foreign scene. I hope that more foreign teams follow suit! EG FIGHTING!!!

Yeah who gives a shit about the TSL players and management. Who gives a shit about the Korean moral values; as long as the foreign scene benefits then everyone else can go to hell.

/sarcasm

If the Koreans can't even sign contracts then yeah, they should have seen it coming. Puma has a salary now, does he not? He wasn't the property of TSL.

You don't understand >.<
Even if there was no contract, it doesn't give EG the right to go behind TSL's back and steal their most valuable player. It's basic ethics and respect.

No I do, I just disagree. It's not about stealing a player, they gave him an offer and he accepted. Why would he go to the coach? It's the player that makes the decision, not the coach.
seoul_kiM
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States545 Posts
July 21 2011 16:31 GMT
#3464
On July 22 2011 01:27 Lankeer wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 22 2011 01:26 rofa wrote:
I agree with everyone saying that this is a great move for EG. Sure, it sucks for the TSL team and management, having helped train and support Puma but the bottom line is that this will be awesome for the foreign scene. I hope that more foreign teams follow suit! EG FIGHTING!!!

Yeah who gives a shit about the TSL players and management. Who gives a shit about the Korean moral values; as long as the foreign scene benefits then everyone else can go to hell.

/sarcasm


/utopia

No contract so who does give a shit in a business world. There's two aspects to esports, business and playing. The businessmen do the business and the players do the playing. No contract = up for grabs.

/back2utopia
oGs.MC: Repair IMBAAAAAAAAAAa
JayJay_90
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany1632 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-21 16:41:28
July 21 2011 16:31 GMT
#3465
I don't really get all the EG-hate. Maybe it's because i was never interested in brood war and so i don't know about the conditions and rules about players switching their team there. But then again, this isn't brood war and there is no kespa or a similar organisation.
I can understand, that the TSL coach is upset, since he probably lost his strongest player and i guess EG should've at least contacted him. I think it's perfectly fine though, that they contacted Puma first, because if wasn't willing to join their team, contacting the coach wouldn,'t make any sense in the first place. This is not football (or any other big sport i guess) where every player has his own agent, that takes care of such offers.
We don't know for sure, how this all went down, because we've online got the TSL coach's statement, that is obviously biased. If it did go like this: EG asks Puma if he's interested in joining EG -> Puma says yes and tells his coach at TSL about his wish to join EG before EG has contacted TSL -> Puma is released from his contract before any proceedings can take place -> Puma, now teamless, joins EG; then i guess there's no reason to flip out about it.
Again, hating on EG without having more information about this seems out of place for me.

edit: I just heard that Puma didn't even have a contract @ TSL?
If that's true, than there's even less reason for EG to contact TSL. I'm not familiar with Korean culture too much, but from an EU point of view, the way EG acted in this is absolutely ok. Of course you can ask someone, who's basically a free agent, if he has interest in joining your team. And it seems very weird (read: dumb) that TSL has no contracts with their players.
Thrax
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada1755 Posts
July 21 2011 16:32 GMT
#3466
On July 22 2011 01:30 Lankeer wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 22 2011 01:29 vyyye wrote:
On July 22 2011 01:27 Lankeer wrote:
On July 22 2011 01:26 rofa wrote:
I agree with everyone saying that this is a great move for EG. Sure, it sucks for the TSL team and management, having helped train and support Puma but the bottom line is that this will be awesome for the foreign scene. I hope that more foreign teams follow suit! EG FIGHTING!!!

Yeah who gives a shit about the TSL players and management. Who gives a shit about the Korean moral values; as long as the foreign scene benefits then everyone else can go to hell.

/sarcasm

If the Koreans can't even sign contracts then yeah, they should have seen it coming. Puma has a salary now, does he not? He wasn't the property of TSL.

You don't understand >.<
Even if there was no contract, it doesn't give EG the right to go behind TSL's back and steal their most valuable player. It's basic ethics and respect.

If there was no contract, that hardly makes him THEIR player.
enecateReAP
Profile Joined June 2011
United Kingdom378 Posts
July 21 2011 16:32 GMT
#3467
I challange each and every one of you, to stay in your current job and never move up - because then you'll be betraying your former employer!

In the real world, you don't offer a person's job to the person's boss, you offer it to the person, then it is THEIR DECISSION weather they accept. This was the case here.
"Stargate units imba" - oGsMC
Lankeer
Profile Joined July 2011
35 Posts
July 21 2011 16:32 GMT
#3468
On July 22 2011 01:29 fush wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 22 2011 01:27 Lankeer wrote:
On July 22 2011 01:26 rofa wrote:
I agree with everyone saying that this is a great move for EG. Sure, it sucks for the TSL team and management, having helped train and support Puma but the bottom line is that this will be awesome for the foreign scene. I hope that more foreign teams follow suit! EG FIGHTING!!!

Yeah who gives a shit about the TSL players and management. Who gives a shit about the Korean moral values; as long as the foreign scene benefits then everyone else can go to hell.

/sarcasm


you mean the korean "moral value" that you belong to your manager and without their consent you can't leave elsewhere when given a better opportunity?

wait what?

Not at all. Is it so wrong to expect EG to show respect to PuMa's coach?
fush
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada563 Posts
July 21 2011 16:32 GMT
#3469
On July 22 2011 01:30 Walls wrote:
I can not change anything just buy answering people here adn trying to make my point like I have been doing in the past 5-6 pages.
most people are too delicate to change their minds.
Anyone who thinks about this and thinks about coach lee specifically without any bias would know.


take your own advice. you're clearly defending a silly point.

coach lee may be hurt, it's too bad, but he doesn't own puma. puma chose to go to EG when presented with an offer, and he didn't just pack his bags suddenly and leave - he says he consulted with his team as well.

what is the problem here? this "moral" issue of going through a manager first? was he going to ask for a transfer fee of some kind (probably not if puma wasn't on contract as some suggest)?
Futarchy
Profile Joined June 2011
Singapore59 Posts
July 21 2011 16:33 GMT
#3470
On July 22 2011 01:30 flanksteak wrote:
Next time you're offered a better job than you're working currently, be sure to turn it down out of loyalty


Lol yeah, and while you're at it, ask the guy offering you a better job to ask your boss for permission first.

Free competition should remain free.
nam nam
Profile Joined June 2010
Sweden4672 Posts
July 21 2011 16:33 GMT
#3471
On July 22 2011 01:30 Lankeer wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 22 2011 01:29 vyyye wrote:
On July 22 2011 01:27 Lankeer wrote:
On July 22 2011 01:26 rofa wrote:
I agree with everyone saying that this is a great move for EG. Sure, it sucks for the TSL team and management, having helped train and support Puma but the bottom line is that this will be awesome for the foreign scene. I hope that more foreign teams follow suit! EG FIGHTING!!!

Yeah who gives a shit about the TSL players and management. Who gives a shit about the Korean moral values; as long as the foreign scene benefits then everyone else can go to hell.

/sarcasm

If the Koreans can't even sign contracts then yeah, they should have seen it coming. Puma has a salary now, does he not? He wasn't the property of TSL.

You don't understand >.<
Even if there was no contract, it doesn't give EG the right to go behind TSL's back and steal their most valuable player. It's basic ethics and respect.


If there was no contract he wasn't their player. This isn't the maffia.
cOoLeR
Profile Joined May 2011
Korea (South)6 Posts
July 21 2011 16:33 GMT
#3472
F5
Hyo' GG ^^
OopsOopsBaby
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Singapore3425 Posts
July 21 2011 16:33 GMT
#3473
why stop at puma?
im sure most other top korean players aren't contracted as well.
just give mvp, losira and friends a ring.
s3x2-2 xiao3x2+2 bone3+2+2
Grimsong
Profile Joined August 2010
United States252 Posts
July 21 2011 16:33 GMT
#3474
On July 22 2011 01:33 Futarchy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 22 2011 01:30 flanksteak wrote:
Next time you're offered a better job than you're working currently, be sure to turn it down out of loyalty


Lol yeah, and while you're at it, ask the guy offering you a better job to ask your boss for permission first.

Free competition should remain free.


That's hillariously true and there's really no way denying this. Cracking me up at work.
jiveturkey
Profile Joined March 2011
United States18 Posts
July 21 2011 16:33 GMT
#3475
On July 22 2011 01:21 Luppy1 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 22 2011 01:11 jiveturkey wrote:
On July 22 2011 01:05 Luppy1 wrote:
I would agree with Milkis. Really no respect at all. I feel this is entirely about ethnics and values. Also, this isn't surprising for me that so many people in the west simply don't get what's so wrong about this. Some of you are just brought up differently and have a different set of values.

Some of you are saying it like there's absolutely nothing wrong with how it's done simply because there's no rule that disallows this from happening. I was going to give an example. But, I'm pretty sure someone will just intentionally look at the example from an extreme point of view just to say it's invalid.
It's unethical from your point of view, and ethical from other people's perspective. That does not mean that it is unethical. It is what it is. The transaction took place, and two parties benefit and one party loses out. That is the fact of the matter, and all of your moral issues with it are completely opinion, and that is all. And I think it's obvious that law is completely irrelevant to morality, I don't think many people would disagree with that.




There's this freedom of everything in the west. Of course, self interest is important. But, from where I come from, you don't bite the hand that fed you. Personal gain is not > everything else. I wouldn't leave behind an aging relative who raised me just because I can move to the US(for eg.) and earn 2 times of what I can earn now unless if I have no values.
Again, purely subjective. Your values are subjective and are not true or false. What we do know are true or false are the facts of the matter, which I explained.

You can say what you would do, and you can say that you don't agree with what Puma did, but that does not make it objectively wrong.
Lankeer
Profile Joined July 2011
35 Posts
July 21 2011 16:34 GMT
#3476
On July 22 2011 01:31 seoul_kiM wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 22 2011 01:27 Lankeer wrote:
On July 22 2011 01:26 rofa wrote:
I agree with everyone saying that this is a great move for EG. Sure, it sucks for the TSL team and management, having helped train and support Puma but the bottom line is that this will be awesome for the foreign scene. I hope that more foreign teams follow suit! EG FIGHTING!!!

Yeah who gives a shit about the TSL players and management. Who gives a shit about the Korean moral values; as long as the foreign scene benefits then everyone else can go to hell.

/sarcasm


/utopia

No contract so who does give a shit in a business world. There's two aspects to esports, business and playing. The businessmen do the business and the players do the playing. No contract = up for grabs.

/back2utopia

Your understanding of business is clearly shocking.
bonifaceviii
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada2890 Posts
July 21 2011 16:34 GMT
#3477
On July 22 2011 01:30 Lankeer wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 22 2011 01:29 vyyye wrote:
On July 22 2011 01:27 Lankeer wrote:
On July 22 2011 01:26 rofa wrote:
I agree with everyone saying that this is a great move for EG. Sure, it sucks for the TSL team and management, having helped train and support Puma but the bottom line is that this will be awesome for the foreign scene. I hope that more foreign teams follow suit! EG FIGHTING!!!

Yeah who gives a shit about the TSL players and management. Who gives a shit about the Korean moral values; as long as the foreign scene benefits then everyone else can go to hell.

/sarcasm

If the Koreans can't even sign contracts then yeah, they should have seen it coming. Puma has a salary now, does he not? He wasn't the property of TSL.

You don't understand >.<
Even if there was no contract, it doesn't give EG the right to go behind TSL's back and steal their most valuable player. It's basic ethics and respect.

Oh yeah, because that's exactly what EG did.

They stole into the TSL house in the middle of the night in balaclavas, held a chloroform-soaked rag over PuMa's face and threw him into the back of a van. The van drove to an American air force base, and they smuggled PuMa's lifeless body out of Korea in a cargo plane. PuMa is now being held captive in America against his will, chained to a desk in the EG house.
Stay a while and listen || http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=354018
Walls
Profile Joined May 2011
United States172 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-21 16:35:42
July 21 2011 16:34 GMT
#3478
On July 22 2011 01:32 enecateReAP wrote:
I challange each and every one of you, to stay in your current job and never move up - because then you'll be betraying your former employer!

In the real world, you don't offer a person's job to the person's boss, you offer it to the person, then it is THEIR DECISSION weather they accept. This was the case here.

On July 22 2011 01:30 flanksteak wrote:
Next time you're offered a better job than you're working currently, be sure to turn it down out of loyalty


We are simply flaming EG because they did not talk to coach lee first, do have anything to say about that? or is that not big of a deal ?
very disrespectful.
SlayerS_Eve's third fan, in the time of hatred... very very proud of that.
archangel2
Profile Joined March 2011
76 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-21 16:36:14
July 21 2011 16:34 GMT
#3479
On July 22 2011 01:30 jiveturkey wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 22 2011 01:13 archangel2 wrote:
On July 22 2011 01:11 jiveturkey wrote:
On July 22 2011 01:05 Luppy1 wrote:
I would agree with Milkis. Really no respect at all. I feel this is entirely about ethnics and values. Also, this isn't surprising for me that so many people in the west simply don't get what's so wrong about this. Some of you are just brought up differently and have a different set of values.

Some of you are saying it like there's absolutely nothing wrong with how it's done simply because there's no rule that disallows this from happening. I was going to give an example. But, I'm pretty sure someone will just intentionally look at the example from an extreme point of view just to say it's invalid.
It's unethical from your point of view, and ethical from other people's perspective. That does not mean that it is unethical. It is what it is. The transaction took place, and two parties benefit and one party loses out. That is the fact of the matter, and all of your moral issues with it are completely opinion, and that is all. And I think it's obvious that law is completely irrelevant to morality, I don't think many people would disagree with that.




Are you kidding? So much of law stems from morality. How would you write laws without a prior concept of what's right and wrong? Why is there a law against murder? Theft? Etc.

Oh. So slavery was ethical when it was legal but then because unethical when it was illegal? Are you saying that what is ethical and unethical changes over time? It has to since laws change all the time. No, legality in no way implies morality. It's extremely obvious.


No, morals and ethics change over time and place. And laws change with them. Slavery was legal when it was not considered unethical by slavers. Not the other way around.
GoldenGun
Profile Joined May 2011
United States49 Posts
July 21 2011 16:34 GMT
#3480
On July 22 2011 01:29 Ruccola wrote:
Sir Scoots is one of the biggest clowns in e-sports. No surprise here.


who the hell are you to call Sir Scoots a clown? He's one of many on the forefront of e-sports.
Get over yourself.
Prev 1 172 173 174 175 176 360 Next
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 5h 41m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
RuFF_SC2 179
Nina 178
StarCraft: Brood War
Leta 1162
Pusan 314
910 311
Hyun 168
Bale 61
Icarus 12
League of Legends
JimRising 666
C9.Mang0346
Cuddl3bear4
Other Games
summit1g10427
XaKoH 207
Livibee90
ViBE65
Trikslyr33
Organizations
Other Games
BasetradeTV39
StarCraft: Brood War
UltimateBattle 33
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 16 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• Berry_CruncH49
• practicex 27
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• Diggity8
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
League of Legends
• Rush1658
• Lourlo1267
• HappyZerGling117
Upcoming Events
WardiTV 2025
5h 41m
Classic vs MaxPax
Solar vs Classic
ByuN vs Classic
ByuN vs Solar
Solar vs MaxPax
ByuN vs MaxPax
Big Brain Bouts
10h 41m
RSL Revival
22h 11m
StarCraft2.fi
1d 3h
IPSL
1d 10h
Sziky vs JDConan
OSC
1d 10h
Solar vs Percival
Gerald vs Nicoract
Creator vs ByuN
RSL Revival
1d 22h
Classic vs TBD
herO vs Zoun
WardiTV 2025
2 days
herO vs ShoWTimE
SHIN vs herO
Clem vs herO
SHIN vs Clem
SHIN vs ShoWTimE
Clem vs ShoWTimE
IPSL
2 days
Tarson vs DragOn
Wardi Open
3 days
[ Show More ]
Monday Night Weeklies
3 days
Replay Cast
3 days
Sparkling Tuna Cup
4 days
The PondCast
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Acropolis #4 - TS3
RSL Revival: Season 3
Kuram Kup

Ongoing

IPSL Winter 2025-26
KCM Race Survival 2025 Season 4
YSL S2
BSL Season 21
Slon Tour Season 2
WardiTV 2025
META Madness #9
SL Budapest Major 2025
ESL Impact League Season 8
BLAST Rivals Fall 2025
IEM Chengdu 2025
PGL Masters Bucharest 2025
Thunderpick World Champ.
CS Asia Championships 2025
ESL Pro League S22

Upcoming

BSL 21 Non-Korean Championship
Acropolis #4
IPSL Spring 2026
Bellum Gens Elite Stara Zagora 2026
HSC XXVIII
Big Gabe Cup #3
RSL Offline Finals
PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026
IEM Kraków 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter Qual
eXTREMESLAND 2025
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2025 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.