What Gus of the PPSL has done - Page 51

On November 11 2011 19:54 Jojo131 wrote:


Personally I'd much prefer it if we take it slow this time
Before all this I never really cared much about the SEA scene, but after this whole fiasco I've really come to appreciate the SEA scene more after reading about all the passionate people dedicated to making things work.

On November 11 2011 17:24 ProLagger wrote:



Manpower? Manpower is not a problem at all, Mineski is not team azk where only 1 guy does everything lol. International quality stream can be fixed, it's just bandwidth problems. All they need is better internet connection to get that 720p-1080p. I do agree about the Audio equipment. Let us be honest, it gets better and better. eSports here in the Philippines is just growing after all. Give it around 6 months or a year. I assure you that It will be better than ever before. At least they are experienced, all they need is materials for the certain event they are going to host/make sooner or later.

and thanks for your opinion. I hope someone from Mineski reads this and fix the audio/video problems asap. .

On November 12 2011 05:49 GrapeApe wrote:
What are the most recent updates on this ordeal? Has anything been moved forward or is everyone still just...waiting.

On November 12 2011 05:45 Sein wrote:
It's unfortunate that people's attention on this seems to be dying down because that is exactly what Gus Ledesma wants. This thread needs to be kept up until Gus Ledesma admits to what he's done and cleans up after all the mess he's created.

On November 12 2011 05:45 Sein wrote:
It's unfortunate that people's attention on this seems to be dying down because that is exactly what Gus Ledesma wants. This thread needs to be kept up until Gus Ledesma admits to what he's done and cleans up after all the mess he's created.

On November 13 2011 06:42 TheGunrun wrote:
Amanda still hasn't yet been paid for the plane tickets, nor have I been paid back yet for bailing Clive out.

Once everything's resolved I'll provide a timeline of events.

On November 09 2011 03:15 leadsniper wrote:


Step 1: He established his name in the Philippines E-sports scene by making a team.
- terrible graphics work

Step 2: Gain recognition by organizing small events and pulling it off
- open invitational hyped rachel quirico + no prizepool guarantee
- cisco systems inhouse tourney hyped as winner gets flight to korea to compete in the gsl rofl
- BSG tournament sponsors pulled out, winner was an offracing diamond player

Step 3: Acquire talent from other countries
- promise them money and not pay for it (no contracts involved), name drop

Step 4: With foundation, flood the message boards to get international attention
- fucking fail posting on teamliquid, nobody knew about their organization when they did an old 'MULTIPLE ANNOUNCEMENT THREAD' introducing a third to the last online 'selective invitational qualifier'
- NAME DROP HIS FACEBOOK WALL(S), meeting with the gsl guys, the fxo lads are here

Step 5: Make friends from other organizing bodies
- locally? LOL really? that's why he failed, you think he's friends the mineski guys?
- internationally? just name drop even more

Step 6: Step 1-5 he was able to get IGN - IPL 3 qualifiers/ he was also a part in the PGF with mineski gaming
- wtf since when did he have part in the PGF? where you get this source? IGN came to him or either way around
gus had the 'promise' to bring tastetosis and actual good players over (well not all and selectively at least), he did
deliver on this part

Step 7: Step 1-6, he used that to get a lot of sponsors
- yup just use your hype to generate sponsors, it's just a wake-up call for references. BUT THEN AGAIN YOU CAN EXPECT SOME CORRUPTION. eg. 'hey you want to sponsor my event? give me 250k, 50k aside for you...' it's a daily business practice for sure, that doesn't just happen in the philippines

On November 13 2011 15:57 Shel wrote:
Gus got to work with IPL by having the PPSL fall on the same day as IPL3. I don't think it actually did though. What David Ting said at IPL3 was that his event was on the same weekend as IPL3. Because of that, he said two events had to cancel. One was PPSL, the other was Devastation. Devastation didn't cancel the event, but they were having an SC2 tourney for the first time at one of their events and David actually requested that they cancel that.

To make up for the cancellation of the Devastation SC2 tourney and the PPSL, David said he would sponsor both events. Lots of people on his staff (by the way he made it sound in a recent interview, his entire staff) told him sponsoring PPSL was a bad idea because Gus had zero proof that he had enough experience to pull something like this off. But David told his staff "just trust him". David said that he was too trusting, a quality that is just a part of who he is, and that he has now learned his lesson and won't make the same mistake again.

There is a question here though. There were no posts about the PPSL being at the same time as IPL3. There was no publicity for it. No one who has come forward to relay their concerns has said that PPSL was ever scheduled for any date before the one it ended up landing on. The Australian qualifier was put into motion around the middle of September, if I'm getting Dox's timeline right. Was it scheduled way back in August for October? I don't understand what's going on here.