EPTThis case involves multiple cases for Players and Staff who were mistreated and ransacked.
This is a part of massive scandal that involves multiple divisions established in the name of Team GP.
Currently more and more people are blowing the whistle against the owner, and the truth is keep coming out.
Will be keep updated.
First of all, this news came in recently from Ryung's personal Twitch stream.
Due to Korean contracts within Twitch, the VOD is not generated automatically.
However, some of the Korean Community has archived the initial exposed turmoil from former SC2 division of Team GP.
Further information is keep coming from former members (players and staff) of the team, so this will be updated as the sources accumulates.
At August 26th, (Korean Time), Ryung has exposed Team GP of not paying the salaries for its players.
Ryung has personally shared his damage :
- The Contract between Team GP and Ryung on 2022 Season has included :
1. Flight & Accomodation packages, since he didn't get direct invites.
2. Full Package covered until Dreamhack Atlanta
3. $1800+ monthly salaries
However, the flight packages has changed from direct flight package until Valencia into direct flight package until Madrid.
Ryung was forced to take the train until Valencia, By himself.
He had to forfeit Dreamhack Valencia.
The full package wasn't covered in Atlanta either, so he had to pay himself to compete.
His spend was 3.2 mil KRW (approx $2,700), but his earnings on the tournament was $1,000.
Furthermore, his 6 month worth of salaries, 13.5 mil KRW (approx. $11,000) total wasn't delivered.
He only paid Ryung out only 3 mil KRW worth (approx $2,600), with he paid for installment of several payouts.
This has been prolonged over a year.
According to Ryung this is actually 10% scale worth of the incident.
There are lots of things to be further exposed, as there are lot of unpaid earnings from several tournaments (including WTL) are remaining.
Community Post (Korean)
[Update, Aug 28 2023]
Further Investigations involved with other players, we have now identified multiple misconducts by the owner.
1. Wage Theft
- Almost all players involved in this team rarely got paid on time.
- Unpaid wages varied from 2~6 months worth, and mostly unexplained.
- Many foreign players had given up on getting paid for the remaining ones.
2. Prize Money Theft
- All players of Team GP didn't receive the prize money of WTL 2022 Winter.
- Prize Money on other tournaments also didn't get distributed properly as well.
- Prize Money wasn't paid out not only for their own players, but also their own tournaments.
One of the tournaments launched in the team's name was conducted with a year-long period.
The Group Stage held in April 2022, Playoffs at August, and The Finals at February 28, 2023
Anonymous source has revealed that players involved in this tournament didn't receive any prize money. They are still unpaid.
- Many Semi-pro, Amateur tournaments which were hosted by Team GP wasn't actually supported by the team itself,
But mostly from the staff member's own money who was involved in the domestic amateur scene.
3. Mistreatment
- Some of the players has been told that their performance wasn't enough for their wages.
Especially when in CTC (Chinese Team Championship), which had regulations to include
at least one player from CN region, the owner openly called for replacements while the guy was still playing for the team.
- The owner also told to sell team uniform to their local fans.
Ironically, even though they contributed, they didn't get their own jerseys because they "didn't pay" for it.
The owner launched the new set of merch soon after some of the purchases were made.
Aside all the facts revealed, Ryung has revealed in his stream earlier today (to compete ESL Open Cup KR) that
The owner, TheBar has contacted him the day after his initial stream. According to him TheBar has promised to pay out
minimum portion of what SC2 division has owed as a whole, which Ryung has addressed heavily.
If the payout can't be met until the end of the week, Ryung stated he will expose other misconducts by the owner.
[Update, Sep 02 2023]
Ryung has revealed on his stream yesterday that the amount of money TheBar has promised got paid.
So he decided to give him another chance to repay the whole team and watch over the process.
Ryung also mentioned on the condition of Leenock, the only active player on Team GP and also plays AOE4 now.
According to Leenock he also didn't get paid for 5 months worth of his salary as well.
He'll also monitor the situation, as Ryung told TheBar to pay him as soon as possible.
Currently Besides the SC2 Division, the issues were addressed for other divisions from the period of the past two years :
KartRider
KartRider : Rush Plus (Mobile)
PUBG Mobile
Rainbow Six Siege
League of Legends : Wild Rift (Mobile)
