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On September 20 2011 04:51 WoLFoU wrote:Show nested quote +On September 20 2011 04:45 Vul wrote:On September 20 2011 04:44 WoLFoU wrote:4) Yesterday Stephano contacted coL.CatZ and our COO Jason Bass to inform them he had made his final decision and told CatZ "Don't worry I won't change my mind again." He then executed a legally binding contract with our organization. He seemed genuinely excited to be a part of our organization and joined our private Skype channel to chat with the team before going to bed. This is not a signature but a verbal agreement. I do not think Col has received the signed contract from what I understand. So for me, Col made the announcement too early without having received the signed contract. Also in French law, there is a time to retract. Gogo Stephano! Come on dude, read the next line. edit: Stephano contacted coL.CatZ and our COO Jason Bass to inform them he had made his final decision and told CatZ "Don't worry I won't change my mind again." He then executed a legally binding contract with our organization. Signature Internet? An employment contract must be signed in France on paper ... So for me there is no time to sign it and send it to the other side of the world if it were yesterday ...
Its called a fax machine and we have had them for decades
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Canada19447 Posts
On September 20 2011 04:44 WoLFoU wrote:Show nested quote +4) Yesterday Stephano contacted coL.CatZ and our COO Jason Bass to inform them he had made his final decision and told CatZ "Don't worry I won't change my mind again." He then executed a legally binding contract with our organization. He seemed genuinely excited to be a part of our organization and joined our private Skype channel to chat with the team before going to bed. This is not a signature but a verbal agreement. I do not think Col has received the signed contract from what I understand. So for me, Col made the announcement too early without having received the signed contract. Also in French law, there is a time to retract. Gogo Stephano! He signed a contract AND had a verbal agreement.
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United States23455 Posts
Poor Stephano, if he plays with Complexity, he is one of the highest paid players in SC2, gets to go to Korea if he wants to practice with one of the best teams in the world, and is under contract to a team that really loves esports and treats their players right.
If he signed a contract, even as a "kid", then it's his fault for this whole mess.
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On September 20 2011 04:48 XRaDiiX wrote:Show nested quote +On September 20 2011 04:47 Medrea wrote:On September 20 2011 04:46 XRaDiiX wrote: Even after Reading just now Complexity's Official Statements.. It sounds like they pressured poor Stephano into the Contract..
Considering the Sneaky Snake moves they did with vVvTitan i wouldn't expect anything different from CoL. At all.
They are actually going to try and take Legal action if i'm correct after reading the Official Statement.
Hrm... Not good Did you even read it? Yeah I READ IT The way it was worded i wouldn't be surprised 'even though its CoL.'s 'side of the story' Sounded like Stephano may have been pressured into the Contract.
Go read it again. You are either a complete troll, or too immature to understand that Millennium and Stephano FAIL to respond to compLexity. Stephano has been streaming this entire time. His eMail inbox was flooding. He deliberately was not responding.
I hope for the love of eSports that there are not many more people who share your ideology - you are drowning in your own failure to expand your mind and understand how compLexity is not at fault whatsoever.
P.S. compLexity's statement is backed up by Written Logs. What is Millennium's statement backed up by?
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Yeah, I don't know exactly what happened, none of ever will. But even from Millineum has released we know these things:
1) There was an open bidding war
2) CoL put up more money
3) Stephano engaged in a legally binding agreement (Mill admits this)
4) Mill/Stephano changed such that Stephano seems to want to remain with Mill.
So all the other details are probably a little open to interpretation. Is there legal precedent for suing someone internationally over contract violations? Yes, happens all the time. Literally all the time. Verbal agreements are only binding in some specific scenarios/fields. Hopefully either this is one of them or coL has a stronger leg to stand on than a teenager/20something said, "Yeah man let's do it!"
GOGOGO coL HWAITING!
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On September 20 2011 04:52 PassiveAce wrote: I dont understand why the millenium statement talks about french identity so much. Tarson, Diestar and Lalush are all non-french.
All of the flowery non-speech from the Millenium article really worries me that they do not have a leg to stand on. That is usually the last line of defense before "We settled out of court/public"
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I was starting to like Stephano, but this is just stupid. I feel bad for complexity :<
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Millenium manager just said on stream that the contract that Complexity did is missing a lot of things, and says that legally their contracts have no value (in France), he also talk about how complexity posted the news at 5 am (CEST), so they should have expected what is happening right now when you do those kind of things
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Im not really sure that coL can do anything about this......considering there are different laws about contracts in france then in the US. coL should just make a counter offer or move on cuz I dont think they can hold stephano to anything even though he supposedly signed a contract with them......
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On September 20 2011 04:51 WoLFoU wrote:Show nested quote +On September 20 2011 04:45 Vul wrote:On September 20 2011 04:44 WoLFoU wrote:4) Yesterday Stephano contacted coL.CatZ and our COO Jason Bass to inform them he had made his final decision and told CatZ "Don't worry I won't change my mind again." He then executed a legally binding contract with our organization. He seemed genuinely excited to be a part of our organization and joined our private Skype channel to chat with the team before going to bed. This is not a signature but a verbal agreement. I do not think Col has received the signed contract from what I understand. So for me, Col made the announcement too early without having received the signed contract. Also in French law, there is a time to retract. Gogo Stephano! Come on dude, read the next line. edit: Stephano contacted coL.CatZ and our COO Jason Bass to inform them he had made his final decision and told CatZ "Don't worry I won't change my mind again." He then executed a legally binding contract with our organization. Signature Internet? An employment contract must be signed in France on paper ... So for me there is no time to sign it and send it to the other side of the world if it were yesterday ... It blows my mind that you can say this while typing an online message onto a US-based server, arguing against posters from all over the globe.
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France266 Posts
On September 20 2011 04:51 WoLFoU wrote: Signature Internet? An employment contract must be signed in France on paper ... So for me there is no time to sign it and send it to the other side of the world if it were yesterday ...
Stop embarassing yourself... In French labor law, a CDI can even be implied and not expressed, and of course oral agreement is accepted...
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On September 20 2011 04:46 meRz wrote:Show nested quote +On September 20 2011 04:44 WoLFoU wrote:4) Yesterday Stephano contacted coL.CatZ and our COO Jason Bass to inform them he had made his final decision and told CatZ "Don't worry I won't change my mind again." He then executed a legally binding contract with our organization. He seemed genuinely excited to be a part of our organization and joined our private Skype channel to chat with the team before going to bed. This is not a signature but a verbal agreement. I do not think Col has received the signed contract from what I understand. So for me, Col made the announcement too early without having received the signed contract. Also in French law, there is a time to retract. Gogo Stephano! T,T "He then executed a legally binding contract with our organization."Also verbal agreements are binding, while hard to prove, they are still legally binding. Also French Law doesn't necessarily apply here. Can people please stop thinking its that simple. "He lives in France therefor French law > all". No, not in a situation like this.
This is actually not really correct (I dont know French law, but I doubt you know it either). If I "agree/sign" a contract here in Germany over telephone/internet I can retract it in a certain timeframe (2 weeks iirc). Signing/agreeing to something verbally over skype would definitely fall under this. If they used a notary it's of course different.
There's also the problem with the legal period of notice (sic?). Even if the contract is legal he can probably leave after a very short time (1month normally), doesnt matter what the contract says (again German law).
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On September 20 2011 04:51 Gwal wrote:Show nested quote +On September 20 2011 04:45 VirgilSC2 wrote: if what Complexity has reported is true.
That's the thing, to me, it doesn't make any sense The news come has a total surprise : CoL announcing it first ? Millenium without any "goodbye & best luck" news like they did for ToD and HuK when they left ? If Millenium knew about theses negotiations, they obviously would have either proposed a counteroffer then, or said goodbye to Stephano & wish him the best luck, but certainly not wait until CoL announced they recruited him. And Millenium reaction also supports this theory: They found that during the night coL convinced their top player to sign with them without being able to respond? They counteroffer: I guess that was the only move possible for them. of course Mill knew about these negotiations... I guess he will have at least received a similar contract (money, travel, korea) from Mill, else he would even be more retarded to sign it (do we agree?). So you would think that Mill was able to make such an offer within less than one day?
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Seems that the Col contract was not regular according to the french law some essential things were missing
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This is one thing that confuses me. Every French person is talking about how all contracts allow a month to back out and such. I assume that the contract that Complexity drafted doesn't have this clause in it. So does that mean the contract itself was illegitimate for a French person to even sign, or does French law somehow automatically add in the probation period, regardless of what the contract says?
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On September 20 2011 04:52 SnoLys wrote:Show nested quote +On September 20 2011 04:34 gullberg wrote:On September 20 2011 04:33 Lunas wrote: On stephano´s Stream they sayd no contract had been signed and Millinium made 1 last offer in the last minut and comlexity was to fast to anounce it Yeah and Stephano/his fans aren't biased at all. Who isn't? CoL will be biased to CoL, Mil will be biased to Mil, Stephano will be biased to Stephano. So far CoL has a history of contract "misfortunes", with Destiny, vvvTitan and now Stephano. So who to believe?
Exactly my thoughts and people thought i was crazy for Calling CoL a sneaky snake when this is the 3rd time this 'Situation' has Happened with Complexity.
Stephano was probably pressured into signing .. This is obviously apparent when Stephano so quickly changed his mind and/or didn't feel the contract was what he agreed to and/or was deceived by Complexity.

3rd times the charm
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I'm a huge fan of Stephano's play because he's amazing, but as a person? This puts a really big dent in that one for me. This is a huge disrespect to eSports and complexity. And it's just childish to be ignoring complexity at this point, like cowards hiding from their own shame, while simultaneously calling complexity some corrupt recruiters AND announcing their big glorious french future.
I am completely unimpressed by Stephano and M's handling of all of this, and my support goes out to Complexity, including its team members who were surely very excited about welcoming in such a great new player.
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In the end, what should matter is the player interest.
Legally, I highly doubt that col. can do anything, and I don't even understand why they would want to.
Teams are competing among themselves, and the one with the best offer wins. The looser should just accept their defeat, if they can't make a better offer.
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