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How many times has the title changed for this article ? 3?
After reading the interview, it looks like Coach Lee preempted Alive's chance to talk to him, and that the negotions are just in the begining stage. Fnatic may be at fault for how they tried to recruit Alive, but the fact that Coach Lee read aLive's skype calls supports the claims that Lee is a control freak (And a mean one at that).
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On January 19 2012 01:15 FXOpen wrote: I just don't understand this thread at all. Like.. A player doesnt respect a contract. All of a sudden coach lee is a control freak douche? What?
Really?
<brain explode>
I hope no player breaks my contract, cos then if I fight for my rights, I will apparently be some sort of criminal control freak.
Depends on if you steal Skype conversations from their computer and then publicly bash another organization (again).
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Can you feeeeeeel the drama? And reddit is down today, how sad.
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Oh dear ... Not dear Coach Lee again  Q_Q FML !
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Sounds like coach Lee got a bit too emotional.
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All parties should just stop with the accusations and present evidence if there is any. Coach Lee has handled this and previous situation horribly bad by going straight to media with little to no evidence of wrong doing.
There's nothing shady in offering a contracted player a deal. It wasn't shady when EG did it and it's not shady if Fnatic did it. Breaking the contract is shady, however, but that remains to be proven in this case.
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On January 19 2012 01:09 ckaren wrote: To be honest, Brian supposedly played a big part in signing Moon. I can see how him casually talking to any korean progamer would end up with that progamer playing for Fnatic. Did he? I though it was Elroy (through his old wc3 contacts) who was in charge of that?
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Before (T)PuMa hyung’s situation, there were no contracts. Coach Lee also said when (T)Clide and (P)JYP hyung left that if I was still unhappy, I could leave too. I was going to leave at that time but because of personal issues, I said I would stay in the team a bit longer, but just physically, not as an active teammate. I thought that Coach Lee had accepted it at the time but I guess that wasn’t the case.
so why is coach lee making a drama out of this?
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On January 19 2012 01:22 Witten wrote:Show nested quote +On January 19 2012 01:15 FXOpen wrote: I just don't understand this thread at all. Like.. A player doesnt respect a contract. All of a sudden coach lee is a control freak douche? What?
Really?
<brain explode>
I hope no player breaks my contract, cos then if I fight for my rights, I will apparently be some sort of criminal control freak.
Depends on if you steal Skype conversations from their computer and then publicly bash another organization (again). Could as well have been his teammate who saw the conversation or something, he may have left the chatlog open.
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On January 19 2012 01:15 FXOpen wrote: I just don't understand this thread at all. Like.. A player doesnt respect a contract. All of a sudden coach lee is a control freak douche? What?
Really?
<brain explode>
I hope no player breaks my contract, cos then if I fight for my rights, I will apparently be some sort of criminal control freak.
You apparently missed the part where the coach somehow found out about the "private" conversation between Alive and whoever he talked to and even printed out the entire conversation? While I can understand employers wanting to monitor his employees, this is a bit extreme isn't it?
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On January 19 2012 01:23 Ysellian wrote: Sounds like coach Lee got a bit too emotional.
why would he be emotional, it's not like he's mentoring young restless adults and trying to maintain a roster trying to jump ship...
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On January 19 2012 01:20 babylon wrote:Show nested quote +On January 19 2012 01:16 jellyjello wrote:On January 19 2012 01:13 babylon wrote:On January 19 2012 01:04 Asha` wrote:aLive's interview completely confirms Fnatic poached him lol. Couldn't Fnatic back out from taking you in as well?
They could. However Fnatic also played a part. I hope that doesn't happen. I'm only able to accept this situation because I'm certain that Fnatic sign me.
Fnatic is a foreign team. Couldn't there have been misunderstandings in communication with the translator?
Of course I've also thought that. I also left because of money. But if that were the case there's nothing I could do. I'll accept it aLive seems to be handling this all very maturely though despite part of it being down to his immature decision making initially. --- messy stuff all around though tbnh I would say the overall gist is: - aLive wants to leave the team, but is contracted to stay until July. - Fnatic translator and him talk a bit casually. Translator raises the possibility of aLive moving to Fnatic, but nothing official. (I don't see anything wrong with this, personally, but maybe there should be rules about when a player should be allowed to talk to someone else from another team.) - aLive decides to forgo the entire process by leaving TSL so Fnatic doesn't have to pay a transfer fee. (-1 aLive, -1 Fnatic for encouraging this). - Lee finds out somehow. (-1 Lee. Sorry, snooping on ppl's personal computer is sketchy as hell.) - Lee and aLive talk, aLive apologizes, owns up, but says he still wants to leave, and Lee says he understands. Yaaaaay. - Lee nevertheless releases details to media. Oh god, why, Lee? (-1 Lee, please deal with this privately, please?). - Fnatic responds saying there was no official offer. (This is true.) - Ongoing discussion, probably. $1000 is chump change for Fnatic to buy aLive, IMO. They should just do it and get aLive out of this awkward situation, rofl. aLive said Fnatic is giving him an offer. Doesn't sound like a casual talk to me. He also said that he talked to Fnatic management on Skype over the details of his transfer. Again, how deep was Fnatic in this shit seriously? I bet Fnatic was hoping aLive keeps his mouth shut, but noooooooo that didn't happen. Now cue the damage control! Did it say he actually talked to the actual manager? I'm going off moonmeh's translation; it was the first released. I don't know which one's correct. There's a conflicting statement there. "Cross contract seems be an over reaction, as I haven't made a contract yet. I received an offer from the translator last Sunday and on Monday he asked if I wanted to talk to the Fnatic manager and talked in detail." vs. "A: Trying to get a deal while I was still under contract with TSL. I have not signed with Fnatic yet. Fnatic's translator told me last Sunday that they'd give me an offer. I talked to the Fnatic's management on Monday with more details." Lol, translations.
Quoting my own here.
Q: What do you think you did wrong? A: Trying to get a deal while I was still under contract with TSL. I have not signed with Fnatic yet. Fnatic's translator told me last Sunday that they'd give me an offer. I talked to the Fnatic's management on Monday with more details. But after that, Coach Lee called me and showed me a print out of conversation I had with Fnatic's management. I was speaking with Fnatic via Skype on my computer, so I was curious how he was able to get a hold of it. However, I let coach Lee know that I made a mistake and asked him to be considerate.
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it just feels like Coach Lee is sour/upset that a player he invested into leaves without him getting anything never mind that his player isn't happy in the team. :/ he does seem possessive ><;;; Money. sigh.
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On January 19 2012 01:15 FXOpen wrote: I just don't understand this thread at all. Like.. A player doesnt respect a contract. All of a sudden coach lee is a control freak douche? What?
Really?
<brain explode>
I hope no player breaks my contract, cos then if I fight for my rights, I will apparently be some sort of criminal control freak.
Except Alive didn't make a new contract, ergo he didn't break his contract.
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I hate how TSL always gets fucked by lack of money and sponsors. They make such good players but they leave quickly because of this kinda shit. Shocked they are still 'alive' pardon the pun. Lol
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On January 19 2012 01:15 FXOpen wrote: I just don't understand this thread at all. Like.. A player doesnt respect a contract. All of a sudden coach lee is a control freak douche? What?
Really?
<brain explode>
I hope no player breaks my contract, cos then if I fight for my rights, I will apparently be some sort of criminal control freak.
1) You don't own your players. They're free to talk to anybody they like, obviously without breaching their contract. If FXO wanted to recruit IdrA, the logical thing to do would be to approach IdrA first and see if he was interested before approaching the team/manager. I imagine that maybe what have happened when Coach Lee found out. And there's no chance of aLive ever breaching his contract - if he ever wants to leave TSL, fnatic or he will have to pay some sort of penalty (for him to continue playing competitively in Korea) to "buy him out of his contract" which is what every esport team does for any player - irrespective of whether its SC2 or CS or DoTA.
2) Fnatic hasn't signed or come to any official agreement with aLive so far irrespective of whether alive is "sure" that fnatic will pick him up. Fnatic's statement did say that they were trying to negotiate some stuff out with Coach Lee. So Coach Lee broke the fundamental rule of a non-disclosure agreement when talking or negotiating with any business organization.
3) If you snoop on your player's skype convos or facebook msg inboxes, you're always gonna be a criminal control freak.
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On January 19 2012 01:15 FXOpen wrote: I just don't understand this thread at all. Like.. A player doesnt respect a contract. All of a sudden coach lee is a control freak douche? What?
Really?
<brain explode>
I hope no player breaks my contract, cos then if I fight for my rights, I will apparently be some sort of criminal control freak.
I guess as long as you respect the privacy of your players you're golden. But getting the information of a private (granted: this is an assumption) Skype account is very bad.
This may (!) be an indication of the reasons why alive wanted to leave the team in the first place.
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On January 19 2012 01:21 FXOpen wrote:Show nested quote +On January 19 2012 01:18 dezmathio wrote:On January 19 2012 01:15 FXOpen wrote: I just don't understand this thread at all. Like.. A player doesnt respect a contract. All of a sudden coach lee is a control freak douche? What?
Really?
<brain explode>
I hope no player breaks my contract, cos then if I fight for my rights, I will apparently be some sort of criminal control freak.
I don't think that's specifically the issue, it just seems like Coach Lee blows things out of proportion. But I agree with you that he has the right to be angry if the player doesn't respect the contract. But public outcry over it? Nobody is gonna hate the player for leaving, only the team he is leaving/that coach. Just seems unprofessional and high-school ish This is e-sports. Public outcry is the ONLY way to get things done. As I have demonstrated a few times. Its impossible to get things done behind the scenes nowadays, people ignore you, say things like "so what, what are you going to do", "if you sue me I'll sue you so ner"... The beauty of the internet and multiple jurisdictions. The one thing that hits people where it hurts is bad PR. So its the only way to really get peoples attention. where's the "like" button?
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On January 19 2012 01:25 Gamegene wrote:Show nested quote +On January 19 2012 01:23 Ysellian wrote: Sounds like coach Lee got a bit too emotional. why would he be emotional, it's not like he's mentoring young restless adults and trying to maintain a roster trying to jump ship...
It's understandable, but it's still something that can be criticized and as far as I'm concerned the only thing Coach lee can be criticized for.
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On January 19 2012 01:17 Azzur wrote: Btw, this is really offtopic but how come TeamLiquid ESPORTS only has 1 post???
The mods maintain the count at 1 at their own discretion.
On topic: Still need more information as to who's really at fault. Good to see that Fnatic has responded quickly, unlike EG in the Puma fiasco. Still hope this can only be sorted out fairly.
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