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Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55568 Posts
May 27 2016 07:26 GMT
#121
On May 27 2016 10:58 Diabolique wrote:
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On May 27 2016 10:46 chipmonklord17 wrote:
On May 27 2016 10:41 Diabolique wrote:
I really feel sorry for ByuN, after reading his translated statement and before the one sided explanation of X-team. He did not like the condition "You must be the member of X-team and for this, you will have no salary, but you can stream and you will receive money for streaming". That kind of deal looks weird and it definitely is not in line with what X team claims to have done. Also the problems with the translation of contract, it seems completely understandable that he did not like the situation.

The real problem is that he did not know, that the conditions of PartinG were very special and that Doyu learned that what they have done for PartinG was not economically viable for another player from their side, so they did not offer the same conditions to ByuN. If they explained that to ByuN, he would probably understand that, but this way, he just felt as a misused player, who has been offered much worse conditions that the standard was.

If there was some kind of communication between the parties, honesty with explanations and trying to understand the other side, they could have found a solution. But it seems more like being a fight than trying to find a solution.

Well, what can be done? Now, X-team will lose all their matches and ByuN will be unemployed. I still see that as a better solution than being in a business relationship that both parties consider as disadvantageous and where they would be dissatisfied with the deal.

I just wish, CJ would actually consider not to disband their SC2 team and in addition to the retiring MC for one season would consider hiring a great Terran as a replacement for Bbyong at least for the whole 2017.



Is there a source of them saying they're considering disbanding?

No. That is only what I think taking into account what has happened this year. They played the whole season 2 with insufficient number of players and did not hire even some newbie player as a replacement. The fact that they have hired MC now looks great, but I am afraid, it is only for the third season until end of 2016, which is a good deal for MC, it also wins a lot of fans for CJ, but it still gives them the possibility to terminate that at the end of the year. If they hired ByuN, a player, who does not intend to retire after the season, that would be a sign for me, that they might keep the team.

CJ has a bunch of rookie players, they just don't let them play Proleague.
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
Powermoo
Profile Joined February 2016
32 Posts
May 27 2016 09:24 GMT
#122
Okay, all these fine details aside, lets look at the big picture. ByuN is a top tier player who joined X-Team as a result of his massive online contributions w/ the Chinese scene. Great. Nobody expected it to last forever, at least I didn't. Pay the man or watch him walk. And that's what happened. Now that ByuN's breaking out of his shell so to speak, he knows he can get more money elsewhere. I guarantee he'll be on a kespa team in time for round 3 PL. He may say he hates proleague but nobody believes somebody who says they hate money.
Aiingel
Profile Joined May 2016
243 Posts
May 27 2016 13:01 GMT
#123
For what it's worth, I know Chinese and can read Xiaose's original blog post. I believe X-Team had good intentions, that both sides did some things wrong, and that the problem arose from a misunderstanding of X-Team's relationship with Douyu.

I wrote a reply explaining this in the existing reddit post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/4l5f27/byuns_post_about_his_recent_incident_with_xteam/d3loi7u
Lakoria
Profile Joined May 2016
8 Posts
May 28 2016 10:29 GMT
#124
Kespa Team.... What are you waiting for?!?! get him into proleague... His ghost snipes are just Sick =D
Cluster__
Profile Joined September 2013
United States328 Posts
June 10 2016 20:55 GMT
#125
Teamliquid should pick him up
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