• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 01:55
CEST 07:55
KST 14:55
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
Serral wins EWC 202543Tournament Spotlight: FEL Cracow 202510Power Rank - Esports World Cup 202580RSL Season 1 - Final Week9[ASL19] Finals Recap: Standing Tall15
Community News
Weekly Cups (Jul 28-Aug 3): herO doubles up6LiuLi Cup - August 2025 Tournaments3[BSL 2025] H2 - Team Wars, Weeklies & SB Ladder10EWC 2025 - Replay Pack4Google Play ASL (Season 20) Announced62
StarCraft 2
General
Official Ladder Map Pool Update (April 28, 2025) The GOAT ranking of GOAT rankings Weekly Cups (Jul 28-Aug 3): herO doubles up Clem Interview: "PvT is a bit insane right now" Serral wins EWC 2025
Tourneys
RSL Season 2 Qualifier Links and Dates StarCraft Evolution League (SC Evo Biweekly) Global Tourney for College Students in September Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament WardiTV Mondays
Strategy
Custom Maps
External Content
Mutation # 485 Death from Below Mutation # 484 Magnetic Pull Mutation #239 Bad Weather Mutation # 483 Kill Bot Wars
Brood War
General
StarCon Philadelphia BW General Discussion Where is technical support? BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ Google Play ASL (Season 20) Announced
Tourneys
[ASL20] Online Qualifiers Day 2 [CSLPRO] It's CSLAN Season! - Last Chance [Megathread] Daily Proleagues Cosmonarchy Pro Showmatches
Strategy
[G] Mineral Boosting Simple Questions, Simple Answers Muta micro map competition Does 1 second matter in StarCraft?
Other Games
General Games
Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Nintendo Switch Thread Total Annihilation Server - TAForever Beyond All Reason [MMORPG] Tree of Savior (Successor of Ragnarok)
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
TL Mafia Community Thread Vanilla Mini Mafia
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread The Games Industry And ATVI European Politico-economics QA Mega-thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine Russo-Ukrainian War Thread
Fan Clubs
INnoVation Fan Club SKT1 Classic Fan Club!
Media & Entertainment
Movie Discussion! [Manga] One Piece Anime Discussion Thread [\m/] Heavy Metal Thread Korean Music Discussion
Sports
2024 - 2025 Football Thread Formula 1 Discussion TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Gtx660 graphics card replacement Installation of Windows 10 suck at "just a moment" Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
TeamLiquid Team Shirt On Sale The Automated Ban List
Blogs
[Girl blog} My fema…
artosisisthebest
Sharpening the Filtration…
frozenclaw
ASL S20 English Commentary…
namkraft
The Link Between Fitness and…
TrAiDoS
momentary artworks from des…
tankgirl
from making sc maps to makin…
Husyelt
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 590 users

Genna Bain leaves Axiom - Page 7

Forum Index > SC2 General
500 CommentsPost a Reply
Prev 1 5 6 7 8 9 26 Next All
This is a heated issue, but please keep the debate civil.
Personal insult is not 'discussion' and will be moderated. -Page 17
styLesdavis
Profile Joined March 2012
Germany833 Posts
August 16 2013 07:59 GMT
#121
Why do i have to choose between 2 (or 3) great persons about
who is the more accomplished person for the esports community?
Faults like this can happen. Nobody has to overreact that much.
Keep up the good work all and make things happen in the future like you
did in the past.
LiquidTLO - LiquidTaeja - LiquidHero - LiquidSnute - LiquidRet
GumBa
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
United Kingdom31935 Posts
August 16 2013 08:03 GMT
#122
Wow i go to sleep and wake up to this wtf?
To all the haters: you deserve to witness many, many more Serral victories, worthy of the godlike player he is.
lessQQmorePEWPEW
Profile Joined November 2011
Jamaica921 Posts
August 16 2013 08:07 GMT
#123
lol such drama queens. taking this shit out on twitter shows real maturity!!
Why drink and drive when you can smoke and fly - Bob Marley
Hollick
Profile Joined October 2012
Canada5 Posts
August 16 2013 08:07 GMT
#124
I have literally spent 2 hours going through Genna's original post, Her blog announcing her retirement/showing Take's messages that were posted and listening to TotalBiscuit's soundcloud recording on her decision. I am officially informed. Interesting, but petty in the big picture and is being blown way out of proportion. Clearly the community was starved for drama since the SlayerS situation was the last actual thing to happen that made such a splash.

To me, this sounds like Genna really has had too much on her plate as a person to manage a team in the first place. It is clearly noted that she is a "CEO of 2 businesses and a mother", while TB also states in his soundcloud that she has been diagnosed with clinical depression. I understand mental health being diagnosed with general anxiety disorder earlier this year with a prescription which has helped majorly to get rid of the disorder. However, the constant throwing around that "I am a mother and a CEO of 2 businesses is an excuse bottom line. Do you think successful CEO's and business personalities go around telling other CEO's their personal info on why they were unable to get something done, and or follow up? What she does day to day is clearly a busy schedule, but if you can't handle it, then Genna you've made the right move to get out of eSports. We're finding out more and more that it really is not nearly financially stable as we think or will be any time soon. I think the decision you made in not sending Axiom to ATC was the right one, and as you stated to Take, you can't risk financial instability for the sake of getting your team there, especially when top prize didn't even cover the cost to get there, all-in, in the first place. So kudos for that.

The second part of this whole situation I do understand is the response from Take, seeing his private emails and Skype conversations aired out to the entire community. This is not something that the community should be seeing. It's just asking for a sh** storm. Instead, it simply could have been handled by a blog post without the private conversation/email posts, or a tweet saying "Axiom will not be able to attend ATC due to unfortunate financial circumstances, we apologize to our fans." Why the posts of private information that was expected to remain so? Take took offense to this because people like me look at this and say why are you trying to discredit ATC and ATC only for which really is just as much a mistake of yours as is theirs. Sure, they didn't email you directly, that is a big mistake. But to not hear anything for months, and not even confirming travel arrangements to begin with is completely your mistake in not following up, when surely (being a team in the financial situation you were in, according to TB's soundcloud) would have been in the back of your mind throughout those months?

I wish you luck with less on your plate Genna. You deserve a schedule you can handle, and maybe just handling Cynical Brit's channel and going back to the way things were before Axiom will only benefit you.

Shoutout's to TakeTV for epic SC2 content as well. I hope this doesn't bog down the greatness that is the SC II community for days and weeks to come.
TheBloodyDwarf
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
Finland7524 Posts
August 16 2013 08:10 GMT
#125
On August 16 2013 14:04 TheButtonmen wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 16 2013 14:04 theking1 wrote:
"
Dennis : okay i see but lets be honest thier chances doing pretty okay at the finale are there if we cant find a deal at all it would be the worst solution right? the point is i dont have big budgets that i can pay from my own pocket 3-4-5 flights

Genna : Worst case scenario, we forfeit and Millenium takes our slot.

Dennis : but before a team is not coming i really wanna help and even willing to pay some of my money into it thats why i ask i just try to find options

Genna : I'll have to talk to John about it to see if we have anything leftover from our sponsor pool for the month.

Dennis : okay and i will talk to acer about it if they would cover another 1500+ i think i am willing to help to on top
"


"Totalbiscuit ‏@Totalbiscuit 16 Aug
Oh and Fuck Take by the way"

Take offers to help them with money and this is what he gets.really do not know why the genna-tb couple feels they ar emore entitled than anyone else in esports.


Take threatened legal actions against her. That's what prompted the fuck Take not the tournament.

He hoped. He wasnt threating legal actions agaisnt her.
Fusilero: "I still can't believe he did that, like dude what the fuck there's fandom and then there's what he did like holy shit. I still see it when I close my eyes." <- reaction to the original drunk santa post which later caught on
Sabu113
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States11048 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-16 08:13:22
August 16 2013 08:11 GMT
#126
It's confusing. I didn't realize that TB and axiom suffered so much negative publicity before they released the chat logs. I vaguely get the sense that they might be eyeing an exit between this and the "no events" tweet. Very peculiar twist to try and frame this as "making it open source". Actually in the sound cloud, he is really hinting at an exit.

I think they want an excuse to quit SC and maybe move back to only their business or another esport.

Ah what a waste. Still like/will consume both party's content.
Biomine is a drunken chick who is on industrial strength amphetamines and would just grab your dick and jerk it as hard and violently as she could while screaming 'OMG FUCK ME', because she saw it in a Sasha Grey video ...-Wombat_Ni
XiaoXiaoo
Profile Joined October 2012
Switzerland20 Posts
August 16 2013 08:11 GMT
#127
Wait, TB said she's had to deal with "clinical depression to the point of suicidal thoughts"?! If that's the case, she definitely cannot be handling this well, I can't imagine how painful this thing would be for her to be accused of or to deal with...

I can see why Dennis may get angry over publicly released private conversations, but the sympathy of the community will definitely goto Genna + TB, and we all know the community follows their hearts in most issues so... things don't look too great either way.

In the end, the thing I'm most worried about is Genna's mental health being able to recover from this team management and stuff... gl Genna.
NeThZOR
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
South Africa7387 Posts
August 16 2013 08:11 GMT
#128
Sad to hear this. It's unfair that such misfortunes happen to people who have done the world of eSports a great amount of good.
SuperNova - 2015 | SKT1 fan for years | Dear, FlaSh, PartinG, Soulkey, Naniwa
RandomPlayer
Profile Joined April 2012
Russian Federation393 Posts
August 16 2013 08:13 GMT
#129
I've been following sc2 for 3 years, but am shocked that people know who Genna Bain is. I had no clue.
sc2superfan101
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
3583 Posts
August 16 2013 08:13 GMT
#130
Don't care about the drama at all.

GLHF in the future, and GL to all parties involved.
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
namste
Profile Joined October 2010
Finland2292 Posts
August 16 2013 08:13 GMT
#131
On August 16 2013 17:11 Sabu113 wrote:
It's confusing. I didn't realize that TB and axiom suffered so much negative publicity before they released the chat logs. I vaguely get the sense that they might be eyeing an exit between this and the "no events" tweet. Actually in the sound cloud, he is really hinting at an exit.

I think they want an excuse to quit SC and maybe move back to only their business or another esport.


Would be a shame for all their players tbh. They're a good bunch.
IM hwaitiing ~ IMMvp #1 | Bang Min Ah <3<3
Hellbat
Profile Joined June 2013
223 Posts
August 16 2013 08:15 GMT
#132
can't stand the heat stay out of the kitchen
Liman
Profile Joined July 2012
Serbia681 Posts
August 16 2013 08:15 GMT
#133
One does not run a team (business) with copy pasting private conversations.
One does not quit for minor obstacles and mistakes.
Freelancer veteran
Too_MuchZerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Finland2818 Posts
August 16 2013 08:19 GMT
#134
Why didnt Axiom hire korean guy (with english skills) to maintain connection between Genna and Axiom within decent working hours?
Tobberoth
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden6375 Posts
August 16 2013 08:20 GMT
#135
This sucks for everyone. I'm sympathetic to Axiom, but I don't think there's any way they can justify posting private conversations. The whole "We need transparency" thing TB has got going is honestly a bullshit excuse. Yeah, if you want to publicly show your teams economy etc, that's perfectly fine, but there's a clear limit where YOUR will to be transparant puts OTHER PEOPLE in shitty positions. You can't say "He just wants to save face" as an argument, it's a private discussion and you shouldn't post it without permission, and I'm not surprised Take would discuss legal measures, especially in an emotional state.
Gowerly
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United Kingdom916 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-16 08:23:39
August 16 2013 08:22 GMT
#136
Axiom couldn't make it. Funds or whatever.
Take and Acer couldn't find the funds to help them out.
Therefore, Axiom couldn't attend. The shit that was on Twitter about them not attending was ridiculous "Herrr they're stupid why compete in a tournament you know you wouldn't be able to attend", like you know that this far in advance.
Genna made a mistake posting the content of the e-mails/conversations. However, as she's not German she's not really covered by the "all private conversations have some privacy thing attached to them" that German law has, so nothing can be done.
Take is angry, said angry things, now everyone is angry and we're in an infinite loop of hate.

It's sad. Everyone made mistakes here. Nothing generally illegal, but widely regarded as immoral.
I'm pretty confident that if people knew everything that went on in the games industry and the e-sports industry, a lot of people would laugh and leave.
I will reduce you to a series of numbers.
pmp10
Profile Joined April 2012
3323 Posts
August 16 2013 08:26 GMT
#137
Oh great - published chat-logs.
And we used to deride Jessica for recording phone-calls.
Qikz
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United Kingdom12022 Posts
August 16 2013 08:27 GMT
#138
On August 16 2013 13:01 Clicker wrote:
(( I've been out of the SC2 scene mix the past two weeks...was this foreseen at all? ;c


This is all happening because SKT or KT didn't win proleague T_T
FanTaSy's #1 Fan | STPL Caster/Organiser | SKT BEST KT | https://twitch.tv/stpl
Musicus
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany23576 Posts
August 16 2013 08:28 GMT
#139
Huh, I didn't expect that. When I saw her blog post, with the chats, I just assumed she asked every party involved beforehand. I think she did a mistake and I get why Dennis and Acer are angry, but I don't think she has to step down. Well good luck Genna, maybe we will see her back.
Maru and Serral are probably top 5.
robih
Profile Joined September 2010
Austria1086 Posts
August 16 2013 08:28 GMT
#140
On August 16 2013 17:11 XiaoXiaoo wrote:
but the sympathy of the community will definitely goto Genna + TB, and we all know the community follows their hearts in most issues so


i dont see why. just because you feel so?
Prev 1 5 6 7 8 9 26 Next All
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
DaveTesta Events
00:00
Kirktown Co-op 1v1 Bash
davetesta8
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
Nina 191
ProTech1
StarCraft: Brood War
Britney 29874
ggaemo 507
Snow 134
Bale 24
Stormgate
WinterStarcraft740
Dota 2
monkeys_forever787
League of Legends
JimRising 518
Counter-Strike
Stewie2K949
Super Smash Bros
Mew2King115
Other Games
shahzam765
Livibee236
SortOf60
NeuroSwarm24
Organizations
Other Games
gamesdonequick1174
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 15 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• Berry_CruncH161
• practicex 50
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
League of Legends
• Stunt454
• HappyZerGling91
Other Games
• Scarra931
Upcoming Events
The PondCast
4h 6m
WardiTV Summer Champion…
5h 6m
Replay Cast
18h 6m
LiuLi Cup
1d 5h
uThermal 2v2 Circuit
1d 9h
RSL Revival
1d 20h
RSL Revival
2 days
uThermal 2v2 Circuit
2 days
CSO Cup
2 days
Sparkling Tuna Cup
3 days
[ Show More ]
uThermal 2v2 Circuit
3 days
Wardi Open
4 days
RotterdaM Event
4 days
RSL Revival
5 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

ASL Season 20: Qualifier #2
FEL Cracow 2025
CC Div. A S7

Ongoing

Copa Latinoamericana 4
Jiahua Invitational
BSL 20 Team Wars
KCM Race Survival 2025 Season 3
BSL 21 Qualifiers
HCC Europe
BLAST Bounty Fall Qual
IEM Cologne 2025
FISSURE Playground #1
BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025
ESL Impact League Season 7
IEM Dallas 2025

Upcoming

ASL Season 20
CSLPRO Chat StarLAN 3
BSL Season 21
BSL 21 Team A
RSL Revival: Season 2
Maestros of the Game
SEL Season 2 Championship
WardiTV Summer 2025
uThermal 2v2 Main Event
Thunderpick World Champ.
MESA Nomadic Masters Fall
CS Asia Championships 2025
Roobet Cup 2025
ESL Pro League S22
StarSeries Fall 2025
FISSURE Playground #2
BLAST Open Fall 2025
BLAST Open Fall Qual
Esports World Cup 2025
BLAST Bounty Fall 2025
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2025 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.