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Mirhi
Profile Joined February 2010
United States389 Posts
July 23 2011 17:54 GMT
#21
Phoenix agreed to the terms of the contract, but then never signed it. This is where the trouble came.

We were past the negotiation phase.
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arbitrageur
Profile Joined December 2010
Australia1202 Posts
July 23 2011 17:54 GMT
#22
On July 24 2011 02:50 Terranist wrote:
so phoenix burns you guys and you do the unprofessional thing by posting the dirt on TL


Mods please ban.

User was warned for this post
Chicane
Profile Joined November 2010
United States7875 Posts
July 23 2011 17:55 GMT
#23
On July 24 2011 02:52 mango_destroyer wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 24 2011 02:51 Chicane wrote:
Thanks for being clear on the whole situation. I appreciated the fact that you said that you had no plans to send him to Anaheim rather than play it off by saying "oh there were no more player passes available so we couldn't send him, otherwise we would." It's unfortunate to see he won't be on the team, but you guys look like a strong team nevertheless.

On July 24 2011 02:46 mango_destroyer wrote:
So negotiations didn`t work out. Big deal. I think you put him in too much a negative light.


I don't think Phoenix was put in a bad light. They just said his intentions. I personally don't think less of Phoenix for wanting to live his life in a specific way, and wanting to travel back to Korea. I'm not sure what you felt was negative, unless I missed something.

On July 24 2011 02:51 arbitrageur wrote:
On July 24 2011 02:48 TheAntZ wrote:
we completed literally everything that was in Phoenix’s contract, but Phoenix also never signed the contract and threatened to leave the entire time he was a part of the team unless we met more demands.


These kinds of players shouldnt be regarded as "professionals". Phoenix is an awesome player but this is behavior you'd expect from someone whos actually won or done something.


What are you going on about? No contract was signed, Phoenix was negotiating as every other person who has a brain would.


Ya I agree with this... he wanted to get as much as he could from the offer, or go somewhere else. It seems like a smart decision. You wouldn't want to just sit back and take the first offer you are given.


Not sure the need to include specifics of all his demands was necessary, imo.


Ya it may not have been necessary, but at the same time I don't think the specifics being mentioned reflected negatively on Phoenix as a person or player... but that's just my opinion.
eohs
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States677 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-23 17:57:51
July 23 2011 17:56 GMT
#24
i dont know i was gonna post something now im not it doesnt matter lol nothing changes
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arbitrageur
Profile Joined December 2010
Australia1202 Posts
July 23 2011 17:56 GMT
#25
On July 24 2011 02:54 Mirhi wrote:
Phoenix agreed to the terms of the contract, but then never signed it. This is where the trouble came.

We were past the negotiation phase.


Perhaps you should add this to the OP. This is quite important imo.
m0nkey_man
Profile Joined January 2010
New Zealand20 Posts
July 23 2011 17:56 GMT
#26
So much drama lately :/, Seems a simple case of him being presented with a contract, he didnt agree, negotiations fell through, end of story x.x, As someone said its bad for Reign and Phoenix
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Deleted User 108965
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1096 Posts
July 23 2011 17:57 GMT
#27
i'm more curious who this budding organization is that is trying to snipe players from reign and fxo
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frequency
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Australia1901 Posts
July 23 2011 17:57 GMT
#28
On July 24 2011 02:48 TheAntZ wrote:
Show nested quote +
we completed literally everything that was in Phoenix’s contract, but Phoenix also never signed the contract and threatened to leave the entire time he was a part of the team unless we met more demands.


These kinds of players shouldnt be regarded as "professionals". Phoenix is an awesome player but this is behavior you'd expect from someone whos actually won or done something.


You say that as if it's fine for players that have had success to have unreasonable demands and to screw their teams around.
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Wunder
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United Kingdom2950 Posts
July 23 2011 17:57 GMT
#29
Wow this is interesting. I also wonder who the budding organization is o_o
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Mordiford
Profile Joined April 2011
4448 Posts
July 23 2011 17:57 GMT
#30
On July 24 2011 02:53 frequency wrote:
If he was so worried about his military service, why did he join the team in the first place? I don't see how anyone could find it okay to be sent back and forth every few months.

The contract isn't signed anyway (?), so you have no obligation to him to provide anything.


Neither of them have any obligation to one another based on most common foreign practices, this is simply a situation of a premature announcement made on a team of otherwise completely contracted players.

If they hadn't announced Phoenix as part of the team while negotiations were in progress, then we probably wouldn't even be having this discussion right now. Quite simply, no one is really in the wrong in that regard since Phoenix has every right to ask for changes to the contract before signing, and Reign has every right to say "No, that's not feasible for us", but the only issue is, that generally happens before you announce a player as part of your team.
SiCkO_
Profile Joined September 2010
United States481 Posts
July 23 2011 17:57 GMT
#31
Tbh I'm much more interested to see who is trying to poach members from FXO and Reign than this.


Best of luck Reign and Phoenix, kinda highlights the problems of bringing koreans to the states what with the red tape and military service.
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Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
July 23 2011 17:57 GMT
#32
On July 24 2011 02:56 SeizeTheDay wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 24 2011 02:46 mango_destroyer wrote:
So negotiations didn`t work out. Big deal. I think you put him in too much a negative light.


Do people read the OP i dont get your comment... Phoenix is in the wrong here not Team Reign. He didn't sign the contract nor during the contract did he say anything about military? READ BEFORE YOU POST? How hard is that? To many opinions not enough smarts.

Negative light is what phoenix deserves.. not saying military needs in the first place. Demanding to go to MLG Anaheim when that wasn't talked about. Asking for more money .. NOT signing a contract and trying to hold Reign to the contract when he didn't even sign it...


This is exactly what you shouldn't be doing from the OP. The point isn't to judge who is "good or bad", the point is to explain why it didn't work out. Don't be judgemental and dumb, it can be a difficult situation bringing in a player from korea.
moltenlead
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada866 Posts
July 23 2011 17:57 GMT
#33
I think that you would have been better off by simply stating that negotiations fell through. You can't exactly say that he left if he was never actually a part of your team, despite wearing the tag.

If you are going to claim another team is interfering in Phoneix's decision, then I hope you have proof, because that could count against you tbh.

A shame it didn't work out, but guess his needs couldn't match up with yours.
Chicane
Profile Joined November 2010
United States7875 Posts
July 23 2011 18:00 GMT
#34
On July 24 2011 02:57 travis wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 24 2011 02:56 SeizeTheDay wrote:
On July 24 2011 02:46 mango_destroyer wrote:
So negotiations didn`t work out. Big deal. I think you put him in too much a negative light.


Do people read the OP i dont get your comment... Phoenix is in the wrong here not Team Reign. He didn't sign the contract nor during the contract did he say anything about military? READ BEFORE YOU POST? How hard is that? To many opinions not enough smarts.

Negative light is what phoenix deserves.. not saying military needs in the first place. Demanding to go to MLG Anaheim when that wasn't talked about. Asking for more money .. NOT signing a contract and trying to hold Reign to the contract when he didn't even sign it...


This is exactly what you shouldn't be doing from the OP. The point isn't to judge who is "good or bad", the point is to explain why it didn't work out. Don't be judgemental and dumb, it can be a difficult situation bringing in a player from korea.


Ya I have to agree with this. I just really don't see why this has to be some drama filled situation where someone is the "bad guy." It was just a negotiation which doesn't seem to have been handled in the best way, and it simply didn't work out. Not a big deal overall.
Sermokala
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States14210 Posts
July 23 2011 18:00 GMT
#35
I got a really really bad feelign that this "budding" organization is the Secret EG project that they wanted Puma to captian.

oh well He never did anything and from what it looks like never was apart of the team officaly. Still can't wait to see whats in store for Reign still.
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Ezze
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada934 Posts
July 23 2011 18:01 GMT
#36
On July 24 2011 02:54 arbitrageur wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 24 2011 02:50 Terranist wrote:
so phoenix burns you guys and you do the unprofessional thing by posting the dirt on TL


Mods please ban.


Why would they ban? Most people would look at this post and infer the exact same thing. I'm one of them.

Whatever happened during negotiations doesn't matter. It's unprofessional to come to TL and post all he dirt.

Look at how FXO handled their situation with Sheth. That's how you do it. You don't think FXO could've hurt Sheth's image if they wanted to considering what he did to the team?
DivinO
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States4796 Posts
July 23 2011 18:01 GMT
#37
On July 24 2011 02:57 moltenlead wrote:
I think that you would have been better off by simply stating that negotiations fell through. You can't exactly say that he left if he was never actually a part of your team, despite wearing the tag.

If you are going to claim another team is interfering in Phoneix's decision, then I hope you have proof, because that could count against you tbh.

A shame it didn't work out, but guess his needs couldn't match up with yours.


That's what Mirhi said and meant. That negotiations fell through. It was desRow who posted that PhoeNix left in the first place.
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OhThatDang
Profile Joined August 2004
United States4685 Posts
July 23 2011 18:01 GMT
#38
thats understandable, the situation was just a problem that could not be fixed done and done goodluck with the future of the team man
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Denizen[9]
Profile Joined July 2010
United States649 Posts
July 23 2011 18:01 GMT
#39
I think kkoreans think westerners are made out of money now
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Mordiford
Profile Joined April 2011
4448 Posts
July 23 2011 18:02 GMT
#40
On July 24 2011 03:00 sermokala wrote:
I got a really really bad feelign that this "budding" organization is the Secret EG project that they wanted Puma to captian.

oh well He never did anything and from what it looks like never was apart of the team officaly. Still can't wait to see whats in store for Reign still.


I would hardly call EG a "budding organization" in regards to eSports considering they're one of the older teams in the scene. It's kind of silly to makes assumptions based on basically no information in regards to the organization making offers to contracted players.
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