IPL yet to pay out multiple top finishers from IPL5 - Pag…

tenklavir

Slovakia116 Posts

October 17 2013 17:49 GMT

#341

On October 18 2013 02:48 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
i never liked David Kim, but i didn't realize he was this much of a snake.
not paying IPL contractors while he was still working for IGN/IPL is just bad.

What on earth makes you think David Kim has anything to do with this?

JimmyJRaynor

Canada17497 Posts

October 17 2013 17:50 GMT

#342

On October 18 2013 02:49 Whitewing wrote:

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Wrong David.

david ting..sry

JimmyJRaynor

Canada17497 Posts

October 17 2013 17:50 GMT

#343

On October 18 2013 02:49 tenklavir wrote:

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What on earth makes you think David Kim has anything to do with this?

Ting

sry

cutler

Germany609 Posts

October 17 2013 17:57 GMT

#344

it is funny that TL always tries to involve Blizzard when something bad going on!
I never liked IPL...not paying the players is a pretty bad move.

Yakikorosu

1203 Posts

October 17 2013 18:15 GMT

#345

On October 18 2013 02:49 Crownlol wrote:

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It depends on the contract that the players signed. If they signed a contract that the winner will be payed X amount in Y time, IGN would be in breach of contract and the injured parties can seek restitution. I'd ask Plansix, that guy knows a lot about law.

The problem is that I will bet you whatever contract the players agreed to was with an entity IPL was housed in, separately from IGN, and IPL doesn't exist anymore. It has no assets. So even if the player has a claim (it would be for some type of breach of contract), and even if the IPL entity still exists, you could sue it and win and still get nothing, because there's probably nothing to get. And Blizzard did not purchase IPL; they purchased the ASSETS of IPL. So the liability to Leenock is still with IPL. Neither is IGN liable, unless again, IPL was housed in the same entity that owns the general IGN assets, which is extremely, extremely unlikely. What Leenock would have needed to do is initiate a lawsuit against IPL BEFORE the sale to Blizzard and then he'd have some options once IPL tried to sell all of their assets to Blizzard (or against the cash IPL got in the sale). I'd bet that Leenock has no effective legal recourse; his best bet would be to publicize the issue and hope that IGN pays him just to make the bad PR go away.