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Medrea
Profile Joined May 2011
10003 Posts
January 20 2012 23:16 GMT
#401
I want to start a "Free Alive!!" campaign.
twitch.tv/medrea
Neo7
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States922 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-20 23:19:41
January 20 2012 23:16 GMT
#402
On January 21 2012 01:10 Yomi-no-Kuni wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 20 2012 03:21 Imbu wrote:
On January 20 2012 00:27 Yomi-no-Kuni wrote:
i really dont get what alive did wrong...
i dont even get what he's apologizing for

didnt he plan to stay on the team until he could get picked up by Fnatic? sounded like it?

isn't it none of the coaches business which team alive plans to go to after he's done with TSL?
it sounds like he was talking to the other team, which should be no problem at all. Is it specifically stated that transferring after a contract runs out can't be discussed before it actually does? that'd be nonsense, and i doubt it could stand before the law (maybe korean).

edit: the problem about alive leaving the team or alive this and that has got nothing to do with Fnatic in my eyes. and especially for underaged players who aren't happy with were they live, more room for decisions should be made.

edit2: Its really shocking to see how many people dont give a damn about players rights or even human rights in this thread. i'm dissapointed

This isn't about "player rights" right now. Just looking at facts, we have this.
1. Alive left TSL.
2. Alive was contracted to TSL.

While Alive is under that contract, he shouldn't just leave the team like that. I agree that because of this, there is not as much involvement with Fanatic besides that Alive only left TSL because he hopes to be picked up by Fanatic. There is no real fault on anyone here but Alive for acting a bit recklessly in his situation.




Since this whole issue arises out of alive not being able to choose freely, or to even cancel his contract (even willing to pay the necessary money) without being shitstormed by Coach Lee, it is somehow about player rights.
Lee does not have the right to go through alive's private stuff, except if the contract somehow makes him alives "legal guardian" which i doubt (just checked, he's 18 already, dunno what the maturity age in korea is). recording or checking private conversations (even if he would've talked to officials from Fnatic) is not alowed.

I agree, alive shouldn't have just quit the team like that, but if he's willing to pay for it, its not a mistake he has to apologize for.

so to recapture:
i dont think Fnatic is at fault in any way. if they are interested of picking up a player, they can ask wether that player is interested before talking to the coach. Why shouldn't they be allowed?
Alive should've not signed the contract at all. Leaving should not be punishable except for fees if you cancel the contract too early. Even if it is a 1 or more year contract, there needs to be a clause to cancel the contract earlier, within several months notice.
I do not understand Lee. If all his actions are legal and respected in korea, south korea is not as advanced as i thought of it before. maybe i should do more research.

@the poster above: at least on germany, camera surveillance of employees is NOT permitted. any form of "surveillance" is not.


Too bad that we're talking about South Korea instead of Germany and that Germany's laws about surveillance are completely irrelevant. Alive knew what he did was ethically wrong and at least he's coming forth to admit that he was wrong. Coach Lee probably would have let him transfer anyway if they talked first. Even talking the player first doesn't sound that bad. However, when you take into account that Alive planned to use the underhanded way of leaving his original team then joining another team avoiding his contract completely, there's not much you can do except say that Alive was in the wrong.

Not saying that Alive is a bad person, just not able to judge things accurately yet.
It takes an idiot to do cool things.
LuckoftheIrish
Profile Joined November 2011
United States4791 Posts
January 20 2012 23:21 GMT
#403
Neo7, doesn't the wording of his interview suggest he has a legitimate release clause? That's how it sounds to me.
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Neo7
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States922 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-21 01:59:38
January 21 2012 01:59 GMT
#404
On January 21 2012 08:21 LuckoftheIrish wrote:
Neo7, doesn't the wording of his interview suggest he has a legitimate release clause? That's how it sounds to me.


But still, I knew that I had fault in this so I acknowledged those parts and I asked for his understanding and apologized.

He admits it himself.
It takes an idiot to do cool things.
LuckoftheIrish
Profile Joined November 2011
United States4791 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-21 02:26:54
January 21 2012 02:24 GMT
#405
On January 21 2012 10:59 Neo7 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 21 2012 08:21 LuckoftheIrish wrote:
Neo7, doesn't the wording of his interview suggest he has a legitimate release clause? That's how it sounds to me.


But still, I knew that I had fault in this so I acknowledged those parts and I asked for his understanding and apologized.

He admits it himself.


He acknowledges fault for not speaking to him straight away, I guess, but it's hardly underhanded to exercise a clause written into your contract.

In fact, specifically:

What are the specific parts that you think you did wrong?

Getting in touch with Fnatic without first talking to Coach Lee was my wrongdoing.


So that's the fault he's acknowledging, not exercising a release clause (if he has one) or otherwise ending his contract.
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Mykoss
Profile Joined January 2012
Australia2 Posts
January 21 2012 02:44 GMT
#406
I think it is seriously wrong and disturbing that Coach Lee got the skype conversation off his computer. WTF.
Angelbelow
Profile Joined September 2010
United States3728 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-21 03:20:41
January 21 2012 03:19 GMT
#407
Alive's biggest mistake was staying with TSL when he was offered to be released from his contract. He talks about clear distaste, especially after Killer/clide/jyp left but he decides to stay as an inactive member.. sounds like he didn't think things through.

However, I dont fault him for talking with fnatic first. Until we get player agents, thats the way it has to be.
You may delay, but time will not. Current Music obsession: Opeth
Xxavi
Profile Joined October 2010
United States1248 Posts
January 21 2012 04:59 GMT
#408
Now that I see that Rekrul's second/correction thread is also closed, it became all mess for me.

All this departure of Puma saga, then Tester and FD leaving saga, and now this saga still remain quite murky. I'd love to hear the final versions of events from both sides without some BS announcements/statements/apologies.

I mean come on, Rekrul writing a pretty damning post and after several hours writing "Sorry Coach Lee" sounds ridiculous. Nobody believes that, not Coach Lee, not fans on here and I don't even think Rekrul believes himself. This story, the same case.

In professional sports, there are leaks to fans and media about certain events in teams. Here, even such leaks are so contradicting.
Champi
Profile Joined March 2010
1422 Posts
January 21 2012 07:47 GMT
#409
After that, Coach Lee said he wanted to talk to me. He had printed out my conversation with the Fnatic manager. That skype conversation was logged on my computer, and I’m curious as to how he got access to it.


This is the most concering part of the thread in my eyes.

I would very much like to know how he had a printed version of aLives personal and private conversation logs from skype.

As far as i am aware coach lee has broken the law with this hasn't he? (assuming he personally went onto alives PC and printed it out himself)
Excludos
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Norway8151 Posts
January 21 2012 15:00 GMT
#410
I'm having trouble sympathizing with Coach Lee after the thousands of dramas and shitstorms he's been in since sc2 release.
FaZe
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Canada472 Posts
January 22 2012 04:02 GMT
#411
On January 22 2012 00:00 Excludos wrote:
I'm having trouble sympathizing with Coach Lee after the thousands of dramas and shitstorms he's been in since sc2 release.


I'm having trouble sympathizing with Coach Lee when he is clearly going through all his player's chat logs.
"Victory needs no explanation; defeat allows none."
Clbull
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United Kingdom1439 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-23 02:59:41
January 23 2012 02:56 GMT
#412
On January 19 2012 07:44 DMKraft wrote:
You can't go through coaches without at least gauging interest from a player, it wouldn't make sense.
Poaching team "Hey Coach, I want to have X player on my team"
Coach of player"Is he interested in changing teams?"
Poaching team "Dunno."


Well in that case, the "poaching" team should ask to speak to the player of course with the coach as a middle man, then ask if he's interested in a better offer.

At least that's how I assume Evil Geniuses acquired HuK anyway (something which the press release showed as probably the most ethical player trade in ESPORTS showing how EG spoke to Nazgul first, then spoke to HuK then gave a better bid towards HuK and bought the remainder of his contract in an ethical way. They did not approach HuK in secret and they did not "bait" him with a player contract held on a fishing hook). However, the issue is that EG and Fnatic spoke to PuMa and aLive respectively without first contacting Coach Lee about a potential bid. That's why Coach Lee seems to be pissed off.

Looking over player's chat logs though? Paranoid much?
xxgeffxx
Profile Joined September 2011
United States119 Posts
January 23 2012 05:03 GMT
#413
alive has posted a few things on twitter since this article was made- any relevant stuff?
ramon
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany4842 Posts
January 23 2012 15:45 GMT
#414
On January 21 2012 08:16 Medrea wrote:
I want to start a "Free Alive!!" campaign.

what about "let alive live"?
bisu
whitefluff
Profile Joined November 2011
United States22 Posts
January 29 2012 01:37 GMT
#415
My personal opinion is that this whole situation snowballed out of irresponsible reporting. Coach Lee knows his team is dying, was perfectly aware that aLive was intending to leave, yet still releases a statement that could drastically affect aLive's career.

That isn't to say that nobody else is at fault, however Coach Lee turned a situation from sad, to bad, to bitter. Not only is he slowly destroying TSL's image, but the image of his players as well.

If Fanatic doesn't pay the fee, I will be sorely disappointed in them as well.
MarineKingPrime is my favorite terran!
SC2NeCro
Profile Joined November 2011
Canada507 Posts
January 29 2012 03:19 GMT
#416
My question is why hasn't he been signed by a team yet? He's been teamless for a little while now and he's a very, very good player.
Fav Terran: forGG, aLive, Jinro ||| Fav Zerg: Moon, TLO, DRG ||| Fav Protoss: Genius, Grubby, ToD
MrCash
Profile Joined October 2011
United States1504 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-29 03:28:32
January 29 2012 03:27 GMT
#417
On January 29 2012 12:19 SC2NeCro wrote:
My question is why hasn't he been signed by a team yet? He's been teamless for a little while now and he's a very, very good player.


I personally feel it is somewhat of a PR risk. It is still unclear what happened and if he were to be signed and later exposed of nefarious actions, it could be an issue for a team and effect the perceived value of the player. Almost no team looks at skill alone to justify signing a player.
It could also be a high return risk, say for example he is desperate for a team and would sign for lower terms than he would without this fiasco, and is later cleared of all suspicion, the team that signed him in bad times could gain greater reward.
A lot of it comes down to what Alive wants himself. Maybe he doesn't want to get distracted with drama or paperwork or regulations or whatever other burdens come with signing on to a new team, while on an amazing GSL run and just wants to practice and perform the best he can.

All 100% speculation and pretty irrelevant.
Not even sure why I'm typing this up...
JackDragon
Profile Joined February 2011
525 Posts
January 29 2012 03:32 GMT
#418
Probably because of the trouble with TSL and fnatic. I guess it takes a while to finish if Lee really intend to sue him for the breach of contract. I don't think a lot of teams want to have that burden on them. The idea that Alive would join fnatic was, afterall, never finalized. But we will see, I'm curious what will happen.
Eee
Profile Joined August 2011
Sweden2712 Posts
January 29 2012 03:32 GMT
#419
On January 23 2012 14:03 xxgeffxx wrote:
alive has posted a few things on twitter since this article was made- any relevant stuff?

He has tweeted "good morning" 20 times.
SC2NeCro
Profile Joined November 2011
Canada507 Posts
January 29 2012 03:36 GMT
#420
On January 29 2012 12:32 Eee wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 23 2012 14:03 xxgeffxx wrote:
alive has posted a few things on twitter since this article was made- any relevant stuff?

He has tweeted "good morning" 20 times.


lmao

ALive is awesome
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