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LuckyFool
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States9015 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-22 00:06:37
July 22 2011 00:06 GMT
#5121
I've lost alot of respect for the EG organization lately from other things I've heard and this incident.
sekritzzz
Profile Joined December 2010
1515 Posts
July 22 2011 00:06 GMT
#5122
Wasnt kespa started as a most union? isnt it the most succesful model? im kind of lost here. could someone clarify what alex means
KoshkaTV
Profile Joined October 2010
United States430 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-22 00:07:15
July 22 2011 00:07 GMT
#5123
On July 22 2011 09:04 echO [W] wrote:
I get the feeling that it's simply a cultural disagreement.

Lee is happy for Puma, like a proud father of his son for doing so well that he got an offer from EG.

However, he's unhappy in the fact that say this was a marriage, the father (Lee in this case) would have liked it if the boyfriend (EG) asked him (Lee) for his blessing to proceed in marrying his daughter (Puma).


Yes, but Lee should be a man and not put this drama on Puma, despite his feelings being hurt.
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Thrax
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada1755 Posts
July 22 2011 00:07 GMT
#5124
On July 22 2011 09:04 Primadog wrote:
You can spin arguments, but you can't spin facts (at least without being called out for the bullshit). milkis lost both argument and fact. He was not the appropriate person sent to debate this, because of that, this debate won't be resolved today. Really unfortunate.



Can we have a followup with Nazgul?

Well, Coach Lee already got to give their view on this debate. It was only fair that AG would have the same opportunity. It would have been good to have both parties on at the same time, but at least now we have two point of views to go from.

I expect the Q&A part of WoC might be more telling though.
mYiKane
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Canada1772 Posts
July 22 2011 00:07 GMT
#5125
On July 22 2011 09:05 Yew wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 22 2011 09:04 Cpt.beefy wrote:
On July 22 2011 09:01 Elefanto wrote:
Even losing more respect for EG.


There the sly fox of esport teams..... so underhanded, but intelligent enough too fool ppl about it.

They are true... Evil Geniuses


you forgot the sunglasses
OrderlyChaos
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States1115 Posts
July 22 2011 00:07 GMT
#5126
On July 22 2011 09:03 Takezou wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 22 2011 09:02 OrderlyChaos wrote:
AG is saying that this controversy is about whether EG should have access to Koreans. I don't think this is really the controversy. FXO/Oz and then fOu, Fnatic/Rain, etc have shown this and these haven't caused controversies. What caused controversy is how EG approached Puma and handled the situation, which was addressed earlier in the show. Now it's a debate about something that isn't that controversial.


I think if it didn't go down the way it did most people would be excited about Puma going to a foreign team.


I agree with what you say here. But looking at this thread, we can see that Rain to fnatic, which was a fairly big move involving a Korean, was only 23 pages. Even accounting for Puma being a major player, I think this thread might have been lucky to break 100 pages (and that's being really optimistic). There clearly was a lot of controversy and discussion, and that derives from how EG and TSL have handled the fallout of this move.
Elefanto
Profile Joined May 2010
Switzerland3584 Posts
July 22 2011 00:07 GMT
#5127
I feel for milkis.
He's not really the appropriate person to discuss this, he should just be an advisor in this discussion.
He isn't involved at all, and it doesn't really concern him.
wat
Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
July 22 2011 00:07 GMT
#5128
On July 22 2011 08:58 thatsundowner wrote:
Hey alex, no one is talking about restricting players in any way. A Korean player should be able to join whatever team he wants, the big problem in this whole thing is the scummy way you went about recruiting him.


Wait, he can't ask other players, who don't have contracts to join his team. He can't offer to pay them? How else would he recruit him? Should he court Puma like a man in the 1800s, asking Puma's coach if he could call on him later and discuss this future.

Expecting your players to play without paying them or contracts is asking for them to leave, plain and simple.
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meep
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States1699 Posts
July 22 2011 00:07 GMT
#5129
On July 22 2011 09:05 Barkziee wrote:
This is just like any other situation where they bring out the Alex Garfield card. A situation where Alex can't be properly challenged because he is positioned in a situation where he can express his biased and spun point of view without proper opposition, thus causing the lesser-minded among us to just believe his word on face value.


Quoting this because I honestly feel this to be true.
閑静 しずか (ノ・_・)ノ
Angelbelow
Profile Joined September 2010
United States3728 Posts
July 22 2011 00:07 GMT
#5130
On July 22 2011 09:04 Primadog wrote:
You can spin arguments, but you can't spin facts (at least without being called out for the bullshit). milkis lost both argument and fact. He was not the appropriate person sent to debate this, because of that, this debate won't be resolved today. Really unfortunate.



Can we have a followup with Nazgul?


The facts are Puma has not signed yet. He left TSL officially and they gave him a going away party. Now EG hopes to sign Puma as a free agent who has already been released.

Getting into the discussion of whether or not foreign teams have a right to sign korean players because they have the money to do so is def. going badly for milkis. Youre right, hes not the appropriate person for this, very poorly spoken and cant elaborate his thoughts.
You may delay, but time will not. Current Music obsession: Opeth
Taf the Ghost
Profile Joined December 2010
United States11751 Posts
July 22 2011 00:07 GMT
#5131
If anyone remembers it, a few years back, Microsoft tried to buy Yahoo with a stupidly good deal. The Yahoo board torpedoed it (really bad business move, btw) by breaking silence. It seems like a lot of the problem comes down to Coach Lee being distraught/angry and talking about this before things were complete.
Phayze
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada2029 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-22 00:10:27
July 22 2011 00:08 GMT
#5132
EG poached frod and crew from coL in CS too. Keep it classy EG. Love the EG players, dislike the very western competitive business model. Do this stuff when there is 10 million on the line, dont pull this stuff at the start of the evolution of e-sports. This cannot become a norm.
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Mayor
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States472 Posts
July 22 2011 00:08 GMT
#5133
On July 22 2011 09:06 sekritzzz wrote:
Wasnt kespa started as a most union? isnt it the most succesful model? im kind of lost here. could someone clarify what alex means

He's saying like in BW, because kespa was like it was, it was kinda korea or not korea, and in order for the sport to grow internationally, instead of being like it was BW all over again, they can't have that.

I think, anyways.
"You can be creative but I will crush it under the iron fist of my conservative play." - Liquid`Tyler
Fishriot
Profile Joined May 2010
United States621 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-22 00:10:42
July 22 2011 00:08 GMT
#5134
All I her form Alex is more EG corporate spin. He seems to think that the big uproar in the (foreign) community has to do with the business side of things, when from what I gather (and personally feel) the big issue here is how he went about making the deal.

Edit:

Does anyone else think that Alex's voice is extremely similar to Chill's?
Arijevska
Profile Joined February 2011
Serbia41 Posts
July 22 2011 00:08 GMT
#5135
Milkis pwned so hard :D I would suggest not writing on TL anymore

User was temp banned for this post.
Sry for my bad english :(
spybreak
Profile Joined October 2010
United States684 Posts
July 22 2011 00:08 GMT
#5136
On July 22 2011 09:05 MrSexington wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 22 2011 08:21 MrSexington wrote:
They're discussing this with DJwheat right now btw on Weapon of Choice:

http://www.onemoregame.tv/

Tune in.


Here's the cliff notes:

  • The news is fairly rushed: As of right now, Puma is NOT a member of Team EG.
  • I apologize for any disrespect towards Mr. Lee.
  • What we did was not only legally correct, but also morally and ethically correct.
  • One of the reasons Puma is NOT a member yet because we wanted to give him the chance to speak to his team first.
  • EG approached Puma first.
  • Thinks a lot of confusion is due to translation in words such as "approached."
  • "We're looking to support some Korean players, are you interested."
  • Puma isn't contracted with TSL.
  • The topic of his coach (Mr. Lee) came up multiple times. We didn't want to offend the SC community.
  • EG has a history of buyouts, each accompanied with mutual press releases with other teams.
  • We've approached at least 3 other Korean players/teams.
  • It was mutually agreed between the player and us that he would talk to his coach.
  • The conversation between Puma and coach Lee went really well and was distraught after hearing the reactions to the news last night.
  • We were never going to do this if it wasn't okay with the other team. (And it sounded like everything was good.)
  • Instead of leaving it up to Puma to talk to the team, EG should have contacted TSL directly.
  • Coach Lee should not have made a public statement in anger. (It sounds like he made the statement in anger.)
  • Both EG and coach Lee are responsible for the situation, causing a lot of distress for the player, and it's not 50/50.
  • SC2 in Korea is kind of struggling, despite what it may look like. And isn't this just an example of a player getting something outside Korea that he wasn't getting inside Korea?
  • "Contracting the player is fixing the wrong problem."
  • Korean teams are used to dealing with their players in a very self-contained way, and that's just not going to work in SC2 [because of how big SC2 is becoming in the foreign scene].
  • "I don't think what we did was underhanded at all."
  • If we're not getting to a point where an independent brand, like mine,... it's not a system that works globally.


*break time for Q&A to come*


Sweet thanks
mnck
Profile Joined April 2010
Denmark1518 Posts
July 22 2011 00:08 GMT
#5137
On July 22 2011 09:03 EchoZ wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 22 2011 09:02 Fionn wrote:
I feel bad for Milkis.

Kinda unfair to have him on the TSL/Korea side when he isn't affiliated with TSL or any of the Korean teams.


They need to find a korean player's association representative immediately.


I agree! I also feel like he doesn't have had the time to formulate a proper argument or debate, so it's basically just Alex Garfield going all out and he gets all his points across completely unchallenged. It's a very onesided discussion and nothing but Garfield's opinions about how to grow esports the best way is being discussed.

I feel it's kinda going off topic in a sense. Alex Garfield just keeps going on about his personal ideal ESPORTS model.
@Munck
WindOw
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Sweden407 Posts
July 22 2011 00:08 GMT
#5138
this is actually really bad, i lose respect for team like EG after pulling such a stunt, no manner here.
but whatever, GL in EG PuMa
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Taf the Ghost
Profile Joined December 2010
United States11751 Posts
July 22 2011 00:08 GMT
#5139
And, yes, Milkis isn't very comfortable in this type of situation. Alex is either a lawyer or trained like one at this point. He's just at an advantage talking.
marvin.
Profile Joined August 2010
United States469 Posts
July 22 2011 00:08 GMT
#5140
So I just tuned in and I missed the earlier part of the show - Has Alex actually talked about how he approached PuMa rather than recruiting koreans for foreigner teams in general?
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