TSL claims Fnatic tampered with Alive, Fnatic denies

On January 18 2012 20:36 felisconcolori wrote:
Wait wait wait. After thinking about it, and trying to remember specific statements...

Someone mentioned that Coach Lee may have kicked aLive out of the team house over all of this. (It may have been in the first read of the original post, but that's been since edited. Or it may have been something that VirgilSC mentioned. If that is part of the sequence of events I mentioned as theoretically possible in my previous post in this thread, and aLive has not signed with Fnatic, Coach Lee may find himself in a bind with regards to contract issues. The sequence of events is important, since there's been no actual breach of the contract that we know of between TSL and aLive other than aLive's leaving TSL. (Again, there could be clauses in a contract that prohibit even talking to other team's members. If there isn't now, Lee might become paranoid enough to add them in the future.)

On the flip side, Coach Lee is opening himself up a lot if his read on the situation is wrong. At the moment, there just aren't enough facts other than that Coach Lee says that Fnatic tried to poach aLive, and Fnatic says they aren't interested. Their translator might have talked to aLive, but they are also friends outside of the strict business relationship so who knows exactly what they said, or what Coach Lee thinks was said. If I were Lee, I would be very much upset and might act without thinking exactly rationally about it.

My take away from this so far (as there are damn few hard facts to be had, and the most important person has yet to make any statement (aLive)) is that when there is a lack of any strong custom or tradition (or rules set in place by an organization - Gom, Kespa, MLG, some trade group of eSports guidelines and bylaws) each individual contract and each individual event will be drama.

There's more that needs discussion, in a general sense, about how this could be handled in the future, but I don't think this is the thread for it.

aLive, for goodness sake, play your matches, go home, get something to eat, and then make an official statement. And I recommend you talk to a lawyer first. If we (as eSports fans) want a "professional" atmosphere in these regards, then we are going to have to accept a more legality-oriented environment - and accept that players are professionals. (That said, I wish it could all be as fun, informal, and laid back as HSC. And wouldn't that atmosphere make some of the professionals run into problems with certain labor laws? I mean, some of the "pros" are under the age of legal consent in some countries...)

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