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TheButtonmen
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada1405 Posts
July 21 2011 18:23 GMT
#3921
On July 22 2011 03:22 imperator-xy wrote:
ok now i dont think of EG as a professional team anymore

+ Show Spoiler +

fuck them


You mean EG is a professional team with contracts and such but questionable on the whole huggy feely respectful side of things?

TSL seems to have made the professional blunder here, not EG.
Legio
Profile Joined December 2008
Sweden235 Posts
July 21 2011 18:23 GMT
#3922
Not sure what sponsors TSL has, but Coach Lee should get fired for letting his 4 top players leave, and forgetting to sign actual contracts with them. Slave labour terms for progamers in Korea may be ending with this, as everyone starts getting contracts.
sekritzzz
Profile Joined December 2010
1515 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-21 18:26:37
July 21 2011 18:23 GMT
#3923
Edit nvm
Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-21 18:23:58
July 21 2011 18:23 GMT
#3924
On July 22 2011 03:17 Arcanne wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 21 2011 15:00 Milkis wrote:

EG claims that Puma approached them first regarding joining their team, but this is not true. As I know it, EG's owner contacted Puma first. Not only Puma, but other Korean players."



No surprise there


EG also threatened their family and kicked TLS's coach's dog. They have a hit squad of in Korea to make sure that all the teams know they are comming in a big way and plan to ruin the GSL, forcing all pros to come to NA and play in the NASL. After that they will rule the scene with an iron fist.

After that they will ruin e-sports for everyone.

Seriously...come on people.
I have the Honor to be your Obedient Servant, P.6
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nvs.
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada3609 Posts
July 21 2011 18:23 GMT
#3925
other Western managers such as Xeris have confirmed that the EG manager was approaching many players, including Sen.


What the fuck. Trying to poach Sen and such too?? O_o
WhiteDog
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France8650 Posts
July 21 2011 18:23 GMT
#3926
On July 22 2011 03:21 Grimsong wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 22 2011 02:54 Jibba wrote:
On July 22 2011 02:45 JasKo wrote:
SOME of you are ridiculous do you not know how it works in real sports? the player normally goes to the highest bidder, loyalty is sometimes involved, but only when the money change wont make that much of a difference. What EG did wasn't shady, in fact, it is helping players to actually be able to make a living off of e sports. TSL could have offered more, but they couldn't. Why should Puma, and other players, be deprived of this opportunity?

That's not at all how it works in real sports.

What bothers me far more than the EG-TSL situation is all the idiots in this thread who chime in with an inane comment like "this is just like real sports!" when it actually isn't. Professional sports have an organized system of free agency whereby original teams generally get Right Of First Refusal on anyone that isn't an unrestricted free agent. That usually means that they can match or outbid other teams to retain their players. An unrestricted free agent is teamless. While these tiers don't exist in SC2 (yet), it's pretty clear Puma wasn't teamless. We don't know the details of TSL's contracts but it doesn't seem very strong or else it would have a NCC, but that still doesn't make someone an unrestricted free agent, and it still doesn't make this situation anything like professional sports or Lebron/Miami.


Hold on here. You're wrong. Here's why.

Rudy Fernandez is a professional basketball player. (Puma is a SC2 pro SC2 player)

He plays within the league, the NBA (Currently there is no equivalent to the NBA in SC2. But in a sense, you could say that Korea is a league. and North America is a league. Lets say that. I like it as an analogy.)

While Rudy Fernandez is being contracted within the NBA, Rudy Fernandez (While Puma was playing with TSL. We dont know 100% whether he is contracted or not, and even if he is, we dont know that the contract has the wording involved to legally stop something like this from happening, in Korea) was offered a contract from a team in Spain (a team that exists outside of the league, the NBA. EG, a team that exists outside of Korea).

The NBA did not fine, or go after, or threaten, the Spanish club that was offering Rudy a contract. Why? Because they aren't a part of their association. They can't pursue anything, realistically, because they aren't affiliated. The league cant impose any infractions because they are not related or under the same rules and regulations. Rudy signing a contract with Spain to play Basketball is equivalent to Rudy signing a contract with South Africa to go Alligator Hunting. It's his choice. He can do whatever he wants while still honoring his contract. If he chose to play in Spain, he would have to work out with his current team (Dallas Mavericks. TSL) how to work out the contract.

Whether it's them essentially waiving his contract (what TSL did to Puma, oh hello analogy), or sitting on it as it will be valid if he ever tries to re-enter the league, the NBA (whatever wording that contract he may have with TSL would be valid because he'd be re-entering that league,perse). That would have been up to Dallas/Rudy to sort out. But Spain had every right to offer the contract without asking Mark Cuban (the owner of the Dallas team) if he'd be ok with it.

And guess what? No one in the NBA gave a damn about it because this is a common occurence in the league.

You are wrong, there are many post before that explain exactly how it work in real sports, just read them.
"every time WhiteDog overuses the word "seriously" in a comment I can make an observation on his fragile emotional state." MoltkeWarding
DeepBlu2
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
United States975 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-21 18:25:55
July 21 2011 18:23 GMT
#3927
I know I've said this before but it's still so disgusting how sneaky EG did that move. Their ONLY excuse is that it's business, which by itself, is a terrible excuse. Koreans should be angry at this. I haven't lost respect for EG's players, but from recent events such as this, the SOTG issue, and most likely more to come...I lost a bit of respect for Scoots and EG's management. A business has to make some decisions but in an industry like this, courtesy is still very important. You aren't going to see ads against competing teams saying they are worse and point out facts like you do on real television. I want to make clear that I'm not outraged at them picking up Puma or other Korean players. I'm outraged at their disrespect for the Korean community.
u gotta sk8
Midgetman101
Profile Joined February 2011
United States825 Posts
July 21 2011 18:23 GMT
#3928
Awww poor coach lee feels betrayed I would too
~Terran For Life~
bonifaceviii
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada2890 Posts
July 21 2011 18:23 GMT
#3929
Well that's that.

No contract, no problem.

Move along folks.
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Nivity
Profile Joined October 2010
Sweden371 Posts
July 21 2011 18:23 GMT
#3930
And there it is, contracts in sc2.
It was just a matter of time, thanks to shit organizations like EG.
Never liked EG and now they sank even more, hope EG fail in future tours.
Asha
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United Kingdom38257 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-21 18:25:21
July 21 2011 18:24 GMT
#3931
On July 22 2011 03:19 TheButtonmen wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 22 2011 03:18 CosmicSpiral wrote:
Well, Lee's given us his input. Now EG has to step up to the plate.


-shrug- It's pretty clear cut from their PoV.

Puma approchs them interested in joining.
EG finds out Puma has no contract.
EG does a happy dance.
EG signs Puma.
TSL does a sad dance.


Coach Lee clearly states Puma didn't initiate the discussion. Though perhaps you're suggesting EG will continue to claim otherwise? I guess that's likely.

Anyway, good to have the coach's clear statement on the issue, I guess it's pretty much as expected. Hopefully the SCII association does fix something up. It's sad that teams can't run on a trust basis when money's tight in the scene, but at least some kind of contract will give teams a bit more to stand on when other people try to poach their players.

Best of luck to TSL for the future, hopefully they can stay strong despite these recent blows.
StarcraftChicago
Profile Joined June 2011
United States51 Posts
July 21 2011 18:24 GMT
#3932
Note to self,
Step 1: Startup eSport talent agency
Step 2: ?
Step 3: Profit
www.StarcraftChicago.com
zev318
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada4306 Posts
July 21 2011 18:24 GMT
#3933
On July 22 2011 03:23 Milkis wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 22 2011 03:21 TheButtonmen wrote:
On July 22 2011 03:20 Milkis wrote:
On July 22 2011 03:19 TheButtonmen wrote:
On July 22 2011 03:18 CosmicSpiral wrote:
Well, Lee's given us his input. Now EG has to step up to the plate.


-shrug- It's pretty clear cut from their PoV.

Puma approchs them interested in joining.
EG finds out Puma has no contract.
EG does a happy dance.
EG signs Puma.
TSL does a sad dance.


puma did not approach them first, lol


How do you know?

EG says they were approched, TSL coach says EG approched them. It's a giant game of he said / she said so instead of dealing with that I just used the phrase from their PoV. I'm not making any bold claims about which side is bullshitting to save face.


I have my sources. EG approached Korean players in this case. Period.


where's the "esports need more transparency" idiots when u need them....
LovE-
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1963 Posts
July 21 2011 18:24 GMT
#3934
Why would Korea, who has so much experience in ESPORTS, run on trust? lol
LovE.311 (NA) || @LovE_Sc2
JiYan
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States3668 Posts
July 21 2011 18:24 GMT
#3935
On July 22 2011 03:23 DueSs wrote:
AFAIK, People never hated Miami for going after Lebron.

lebron was a free agent, puma was not.
DBOWNIZZ
Profile Joined April 2011
United States66 Posts
July 21 2011 18:24 GMT
#3936
Idk why people are even saying that this is "morally" wrong. No matter what you say a team is a business and you can NEVER run a succesfull business if you are always trying to be "morally" right. I mean seriously do you think Donald Trump got so rich by never screwin somebody over??

You have to take risk, you HAVE to find a way to get a advantage over your competition. EG obv. made a LEGAL move since TSL is not making a statement about taking legal actions against Puma for changing teams, IF he had a contract TSL would have full rights of telling Puma no or going after EG for some of the money Puma makes. THERE IS NO MORALS IN BUSINESS......if you believe that and own your own business your going to run into alot of trouble.
" Aaaannnd see you next time"
FairForever
Profile Joined February 2011
Canada2392 Posts
July 21 2011 18:24 GMT
#3937
On July 22 2011 03:22 caradoc wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 22 2011 03:20 nvs. wrote:
Wow @ Coach Lee's statement. EG not making any friends in Korea.


agreed-- and they're not helping their image outside of korea either, judging by the reaction. This is really another case of bad long term planning on EG's part. It might make short term sense to acquire a player like Puma, and doing so in the way that seems to be implicated in this thread may be the most effective way to do so, but this really doesn't help their brand equity in the community itself, which is really one of the most important assets of any team.


Personally I think it's a great move. Why do you need brand equity in the community? At the end of the day, who is EG responsible to? Its sponsors. If picking up a better player = better performance = better team awareness = better sponsor awareness, then EG is doing its job.

I agree that a lot of Korean teams will be unhappy, I think a lot of Foreigner teams will look at this as a potential opportunity - Korean players seem to be underpaid. As well, Foreigner teams have actual contracts... think EG and Demuslim, and how EG went through proper channels to get him on their team.
Talin
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Montenegro10532 Posts
July 21 2011 18:25 GMT
#3938
On July 22 2011 03:18 zev318 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 22 2011 03:17 Arcanne wrote:
On July 21 2011 15:00 Milkis wrote:

EG claims that Puma approached them first regarding joining their team, but this is not true. As I know it, EG's owner contacted Puma first. Not only Puma, but other Korean players."



No surprise there


way to jump to conclusions, "as he knows it". unless u hear from puma or EG, u dont know the truth


The likelihood of any story EG decides to share being the actual "truth" at this point isn't very high.
Liudo
Profile Joined May 2011
United Kingdom344 Posts
July 21 2011 18:25 GMT
#3939
I want to make a general point about contracts. In contract law you do not need to have a piece of paper that is signed in order to have a legally enforcable contract, although that is of course by far and away the normal way a contract exists because it is the easiest way to prove a contract.

You can have an oral contract that is legally binding. It is harder to proove.

You can even have contracts that are not based in writing or in something that is said, but in practice.

So the theoretical legal position is not as cut as dried as people are describing.

This is of course completely unrelated to the facts of this individual case.

But you should bear in mind that just because nothing was written on paper did not mean that Puma and TSL did not have an understanding. Clearly they did have an understanding, because TSL provided shelter and food for Puma and Puma played under the TSL game-tag.

So all this nonsense that somehow there was nothing connecting Puma to TSL just because a contract is in disupte misses the point.

And also this talk of morality is so crude.

Morality has its place in law in the sense that law decides what is right and what is wrong.

So it is entirely legitimate to talk about what is right and wrong here. Trying to pin all of that on the existence or absence of a piece of paper really shows a complete missunderstanding of what law is for.

Ocedic
Profile Joined April 2010
United States1808 Posts
July 21 2011 18:25 GMT
#3940

On July 22 2011 03:21 TheButtonmen wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 22 2011 03:20 Milkis wrote:
On July 22 2011 03:19 TheButtonmen wrote:
On July 22 2011 03:18 CosmicSpiral wrote:
Well, Lee's given us his input. Now EG has to step up to the plate.


-shrug- It's pretty clear cut from their PoV.

Puma approchs them interested in joining.
EG finds out Puma has no contract.
EG does a happy dance.
EG signs Puma.
TSL does a sad dance.


puma did not approach them first, lol


How do you know?

EG says they were approched, TSL coach says EG approched them. It's a giant game of he said / she said so instead of dealing with that I just used the phrase from their PoV. I'm not making any bold claims about which side is bullshitting to save face.


Do you not read? Xeris (the closest thing to a neutral third party here, and a reliable name) stated himself that he knew EG's manager was APPROACHING players, including SEN.
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