Maka joins eSahara - Imposter removed - Page 14

On January 05 2012 19:29 adnnn wrote:


haha, where do people get these ideas? Does anyone actually read or just make assumptions up and spit out random comments.

On January 05 2012 23:45 Probe1 wrote:

How is it unprofessional to be scammed? It reflects poorly on their initial decision but it's not like the imposter was playing games under their name and making appearances. He was still in the process of joining the team when the fraud was revealed. Unprofessional is knowing he isn't the real Pepe, representing him as such and then only once the rest of the community cries out, going back on him.

Being scammed can happen to anyone. Just ask someone who's lost a pair of headphones.

On January 05 2012 23:45 Probe1 wrote:

How is it unprofessional to be scammed? It reflects poorly on their initial decision but it's not like the imposter was playing games under their name and making appearances. He was still in the process of joining the team when the fraud was revealed. Unprofessional is knowing he isn't the real Pepe, representing him as such and then only once the rest of the community cries out, going back on him.

Being scammed can happen to anyone. Just ask someone who's lost a pair of headphones.

On January 05 2012 21:44 KainiT wrote:
If we have learned anything in 2011 it is that esports dramas are very good for people's success in competition,
for example: puma-drama, it was kind of the start of his career (althoug winning nasl 1 was before that, this kind of hurts my point TT)
stephano-drama: after that he won just about everything except mlg and dreamhack
tl-huk-eg-thing

So i expect PePe to have great success in 2012 now, even though he's not playing anymore :D probably he gets a promotion at Wemade or something^^

On January 06 2012 01:17 LittleAtari wrote:

how the hell do you mix people up like that? He wasnt in the process of joining the team. He had already joined. The only way this could've happened is that eSahara probably loosely ties people together as a team. Contracts dont get signed and face to face meetings with management probably didnt even happen.

On January 06 2012 01:17 LittleAtari wrote:

how the hell do you mix people up like that? He wasnt in the process of joining the team. He had already joined. The only way this could've happened is that eSahara probably loosely ties people together as a team. Contracts dont get signed and face to face meetings with management probably didnt even happen.

On January 06 2012 03:06 babylon wrote:
eSahara's fairly well-established as an eSports entity, and I'd say it's more professional than a lot of the Korean teams, especially pre-PuMa "scandal." It's unfortunate this happened to them, and the signing may have been unprofessional -- I don't know to what extent they got scammed and how much information was provided, how much they double-checked everything -- but their response is absolutely professional, IMO.

Anyways, face-to-face meetings are difficult if your base of operations is ... not in Korea. Has JYP even had a face-to-face with Alex Garfield yet?

On January 06 2012 03:19 Cel.erity wrote:
It's common for teams to sign players without meeting face-to-face. In the case of contract signing, the two parties are usually not together when the signing takes place. I don't know how eSahara got ahold of the impostor, but I'm guessing he contacted them first and expressed an interest in joining, or they contacted him under false pretenses. Either way, it's not their fault, there's only so much fact checking you can do from across the world.

Pepe's recruitment has been done a few weeks ago. While we were dealing with the player, he showed a very good knowledge of the Starcraft : Broodwar scene, including confidential information about some of the players and the KeSPA itself, intel that was confirmed by several different Korean sources.