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Discussing the controversy and stating your opinions in a constructive way is fine, but there will be bans for any player/organization bashing without anything to substantiate it.
phANT1m
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
South Africa535 Posts
January 18 2012 06:11 GMT
#141
I wish could support TSL. Every quality player they create gets stolen by a big team. Wish they would for once get a break.

And as someone pointed out this is going to make KR/Western relations a bit more tense and strained.
Necro)Phagist(
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada6660 Posts
January 18 2012 06:11 GMT
#142
Well this makes alives games tonight that much more interesting xD
"Are you talking to me? Because your authority is not recognized in fort kick ass!"" ||Park Jung Suk|| |MC|HerO|HyuN|
m2e
Profile Joined April 2011
United States108 Posts
January 18 2012 06:11 GMT
#143
time for korean teams to realize that a handshake doesnt mean much when theres money to be made. they NEED to sign these players to contracts and thats that.

i understand the korean way of doing business is different from the foreigner way and they believe that a verbal promise/agreement holds its value but when theres thousands of dollars to be made with a player you cant just shake their hand and make them promise they'll stay

all the fault is on the TSL management at this point.... fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me.
babylon
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
8765 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-18 06:13:06
January 18 2012 06:12 GMT
#144
On January 18 2012 15:11 phANT1m wrote:
I wish could support TSL. Every quality player they create gets stolen by a big team. Wish they would for once get a break.

And as someone pointed out this is going to make KR/Western relations a bit more tense and strained.

It's made the relations so strained EG is now in a partnership with SlayerS. Oh yeah.

TSL/Western relationships might be wrecked, though.

EDIT: I wish people could read. THERE WAS A CONTRACT. IF YOU ARE BEING SUED FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT, THERE IS A CONTRACT. Jesus.
rauk
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States2228 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-18 06:13:08
January 18 2012 06:12 GMT
#145
On January 18 2012 15:01 VirgilSC2 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 18 2012 14:59 rauk wrote:
On January 18 2012 14:54 VirgilSC2 wrote:
On January 18 2012 14:50 rauk wrote:
On January 18 2012 14:49 VirgilSC2 wrote:
On January 18 2012 14:47 rauk wrote:
how on earth can TSL be this badly mismanaged that they keep losing players like this so consistently

Can you really blame Coach Lee? He lets Fnatic into his team house, they begin to work on a partnership, and then Fnatic takes aLive?


if all these players (rain, puma, clide, sangho, alive, etc) are so eager to jump ship from TSL clearly coach lee is doing something wrong

You clearly haven't seen anything I've posted about this.
Rain left to live with his father in New York
PuMa was poached by EG
Clide respectfully approached Coach Lee about the move to SlayerS because of his friends in the SlayerS house.
SangHo and JYP left/were removed after failing to adjust to the new training regimen at the TSL house.
aLive was apparently poached (I had heard otherwise, this is news to me) and left the team house with his best friend who's name I won't reveal.


with the exception of rain, all of those indicate some kind of discontent with TSL. a player who's happy with the team he's in doesn't just switch unless they're offered a shit ton of money (and if that's consistently the case with TSL then they're mismanaging their finances and/or sponsorships).

Well, PuMa and aLive were both offered "a shit ton of money"
SangHo and JYP didn't like the new, stricter practice schedule Coach Lee was forming the team around
Clide, I'm not sure if he was discontent in the house or not, but he apparently took the restructuring as a time to ask his leave.


so all of that, combined with heart leaving, plus the FD/tester fiasco, plus the fact that coach lee used to be an MBC coach (a team famous for getting their good players like bisu or julyzerg bought out because they stiffed their players hard on salary), doesn't seem to have the least bit to do with TSL's management?
Deleted User 183001
Profile Joined May 2011
2939 Posts
January 18 2012 06:12 GMT
#146
Does TSL have some extremely bad problem they're not letting anyone know about that many of their players want to leave?
Necro)Phagist(
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada6660 Posts
January 18 2012 06:12 GMT
#147
On January 18 2012 15:11 m2e wrote:
time for korean teams to realize that a handshake doesnt mean much when theres money to be made. they NEED to sign these players to contracts and thats that.

i understand the korean way of doing business is different from the foreigner way and they believe that a verbal promise/agreement holds its value but when theres thousands of dollars to be made with a player you cant just shake their hand and make them promise they'll stay

all the fault is on the TSL management at this point.... fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me.

Considering Coach Lee is talking about taking legal action for a breack of contract.... I'm assuming he did sign hs players to a contract....
"Are you talking to me? Because your authority is not recognized in fort kick ass!"" ||Park Jung Suk|| |MC|HerO|HyuN|
rdj107
Profile Joined December 2010
United States336 Posts
January 18 2012 06:12 GMT
#148
On January 18 2012 15:11 Brett wrote:
Soooo many players so concerned with these short term gains... Either they expect the sc2 industry to crash, or they're not thinking long term at all....

Or maybe alive just wasn't being payed, or like heart disliked the tsl house for some reason?
lethal111
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada460 Posts
January 18 2012 06:13 GMT
#149
if this was true, dam such a dirty move. Takin advantage of nice people
FaZe
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Canada472 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-18 06:16:30
January 18 2012 06:13 GMT
#150
I'm interested to see what kind of damages Coach Lee would be suing for under the breach of contract.

I can't see a team like Fnatic just choosing to ignore the fact that he was contracted.

EDIT : I would love to see a modern ESPORTS boilerplate contract. Anyone have any ideas of where I could find one?
"Victory needs no explanation; defeat allows none."
ItsMeDomLee
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada2732 Posts
January 18 2012 06:13 GMT
#151
On January 18 2012 15:12 babylon wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 18 2012 15:11 phANT1m wrote:
I wish could support TSL. Every quality player they create gets stolen by a big team. Wish they would for once get a break.

And as someone pointed out this is going to make KR/Western relations a bit more tense and strained.

It's made the relations so strained EG is now in a partnership with SlayerS. Oh yeah.

TSL/Western relationships might be wrecked, though.

EDIT: I wish people could read. THERE WAS A CONTRACT. IF YOU ARE BEING SUED FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT, THERE IS A CONTRACT. Jesus.


Lol.. if EG takes a player from SlayerS, Jessica will make sure they don't leave Korea alive.
iSometric
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
2221 Posts
January 18 2012 06:13 GMT
#152
On January 18 2012 15:11 m2e wrote:
time for korean teams to realize that a handshake doesnt mean much when theres money to be made. they NEED to sign these players to contracts and thats that.

i understand the korean way of doing business is different from the foreigner way and they believe that a verbal promise/agreement holds its value but when theres thousands of dollars to be made with a player you cant just shake their hand and make them promise they'll stay

all the fault is on the TSL management at this point.... fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me.

I think they did sign...
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Bleak
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Turkey3059 Posts
January 18 2012 06:14 GMT
#153
Coach Lee is like a children that whines because he lost his toys. If you are that concerned about losing your players, then manage your team better, sign contracts that don't let his happen for example.
"I am a beacon of knowledge blazing out across a black sea of ignorance. "
pdd
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Australia9933 Posts
January 18 2012 06:14 GMT
#154
On January 18 2012 15:12 rauk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 18 2012 15:01 VirgilSC2 wrote:
On January 18 2012 14:59 rauk wrote:
On January 18 2012 14:54 VirgilSC2 wrote:
On January 18 2012 14:50 rauk wrote:
On January 18 2012 14:49 VirgilSC2 wrote:
On January 18 2012 14:47 rauk wrote:
how on earth can TSL be this badly mismanaged that they keep losing players like this so consistently

Can you really blame Coach Lee? He lets Fnatic into his team house, they begin to work on a partnership, and then Fnatic takes aLive?


if all these players (rain, puma, clide, sangho, alive, etc) are so eager to jump ship from TSL clearly coach lee is doing something wrong

You clearly haven't seen anything I've posted about this.
Rain left to live with his father in New York
PuMa was poached by EG
Clide respectfully approached Coach Lee about the move to SlayerS because of his friends in the SlayerS house.
SangHo and JYP left/were removed after failing to adjust to the new training regimen at the TSL house.
aLive was apparently poached (I had heard otherwise, this is news to me) and left the team house with his best friend who's name I won't reveal.


with the exception of rain, all of those indicate some kind of discontent with TSL. a player who's happy with the team he's in doesn't just switch unless they're offered a shit ton of money (and if that's consistently the case with TSL then they're mismanaging their finances and/or sponsorships).

Well, PuMa and aLive were both offered "a shit ton of money"
SangHo and JYP didn't like the new, stricter practice schedule Coach Lee was forming the team around
Clide, I'm not sure if he was discontent in the house or not, but he apparently took the restructuring as a time to ask his leave.


so all of that, combined with heart leaving, plus the FD/tester fiasco, plus the fact that coach lee used to be an MBC coach (a team famous for getting their good players like bisu or julyzerg bought out because they stiffed their players hard on salary), doesn't seem to have the least bit to do with TSL's management?

Coach =/= manager.
TI4 Champions: EE-Sama | B7-God | A-God_2000 | Kappa Lord | pieliedie
Zorkmid
Profile Joined November 2008
4410 Posts
January 18 2012 06:14 GMT
#155
I'm sick of fake ass drummed up eSports "drama". Why can't anyone in this industry handle their shit privately?

aristarchus
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States652 Posts
January 18 2012 06:14 GMT
#156
What is going on here? It seems like TSL is in the right here (unless the contract term was up or something), but why is TSL bleeding players so badly? Is it really unpleasant to live in that team house or something?
nekuodah
Profile Joined August 2010
England2409 Posts
January 18 2012 06:14 GMT
#157
Wow if he was contracted and this is true thats just dirty as hell. Bit suspicious that fnatic hasnt even done a big release for a code S player either especially after their moon promotion.
Fionn
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States23455 Posts
January 18 2012 06:15 GMT
#158
On January 18 2012 15:14 Bleak wrote:
Coach Lee is like a children that whines because he lost his toys. If you are that concerned about losing your players, then manage your team better, sign contracts that don't let his happen for example.


Have you read the thread

Alive had a contract. Lee signed his top players (Polt, Alive, Hyun) to contracts following the Pumagate.
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Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20319 Posts
January 18 2012 06:15 GMT
#159
There is a little too much drama around recently :/

can see legal action happening if Alive did infact breach contract
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
ReaperX
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Hong Kong1758 Posts
January 18 2012 06:15 GMT
#160
Why does this always happen to TSL? Hopefully things turn out well.. because it seemed like TSL and Fnatic seemed to have a good relationship as Rain left TSL on good terms with the coach... Didn't know about their supposed partnership either, must be a sticky situation.
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