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On August 17 2013 01:37 theBlues wrote:Show nested quote +On August 17 2013 01:33 lunis wrote:On August 17 2013 01:31 theBlues wrote: This community is amazingly toxic, if this blows up to the point Axiom closes we will have one less team in the scene. The scene is stagnating and this reddit mentality helps nothing. I see this over and over again, anonymous posters pestering a public figure of the community until they snap and start lashing out, seen this with incontrol, idra, tb and countless others before. Like highschool bullying of some sort. The sad thing is when the game starts losing more and more presence these trolls will jump ship to whatever game.
I hope TB and Genna have the strength to keep on trucking, the voice of the community has become the bane of the people trying to advance Starcraft. You know who has been the most toxic during this whole thing, TB himself. He publically insulted and started a witchhunt against Take, please explain to me how this is justified or the appropriate thing to do. The ¨community backlash¨ is what started all of this like it always does.
Bullshit. All of this was started because Genna made the chatlogs private, no one else is to blame for this public drama. The community/bullies/trolls or whoever did not demand for this to made public. They released this stuff to have the higher ground, and did it again after Take complained.
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On August 17 2013 01:36 Rob-Zero wrote:Show nested quote +On August 17 2013 01:32 Plansix wrote:On August 17 2013 01:30 Rob-Zero wrote:On August 17 2013 01:25 NovemberstOrm wrote:On August 17 2013 01:20 lunis wrote:On August 17 2013 01:15 Azelja wrote: And people here really have the audacity to even wonder why guys like Tasteless, Day9, Artosis or who-have-you don't check TL (anymore) and why MLG (among many others) have been so sparse with the intel they give out.
Good grief, why is this still my browser's homepage yet? And this is exactly how this whole shitstorm could have been prevented. Just not make anything public. I don't quite get, why it had to be made public in the first place ? Was it supposed to be a smear campaign towards Take ? When Axiom started they stated they wanted to be as transparent as possible, of course this turned out to be a mistake sadly. Being transparent in anything business isn't a good idea. You can be transparent if you want, but at least arrange it with all parties involved in your transparency. There wasn't anything bad in what she released, so I dont see a problem. It mostly showed that both sides worked very hard to work something out. Really, I don't know why TakeTV is upset about it, because it really just shows that they both give a shit and it just didn't make sense for them to come. It was explained several times already why it was bad what she released (Take paying for Liquid, Acer looking bad, maybe Liquid does not want that anyone knows that Take helps them out f.e.), i absolutely see why TakeTV is upset about it, and you should, too. The whole things was a minor problem, not even worth mentioning, just some mistakes that can happen...as long as it was private. I'm not upset at all in any way. As I said in another thread, I am at work today preparing a motion to release another attorney's emails to the court to show he has been misleading the court and acting in bad faith. Although he never lies outright, he is a pain and likes to omit information he provides to the court and my attorneys are sick of it. It is considered unprofessional by some, but at the end of the day it gets what we want. Its mean, but we want him to knock it off and this is a slap in the face to get that done.
Business is a mean and people don't always get along. We are not one big happy SC2 family, but a small group of teams and events all trying to make a living.
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Not too interested in the starcraft side of eSports these days - nor the matter at hand - but it's definitely not acceptable to post (meant to be) private business correspondence for people to gawk at. Much less not to omit identifiable details like names and such.
Sorry, but it's pretty obvious who's in the wrong here. "Lifting the veil" doesn't necessitate inviting people into your home to see how things are run and then also leaving the bathroom door open as you take a shit.
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On August 17 2013 01:39 R3m3mb3rM3 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 17 2013 01:37 theBlues wrote:On August 17 2013 01:33 lunis wrote:On August 17 2013 01:31 theBlues wrote: This community is amazingly toxic, if this blows up to the point Axiom closes we will have one less team in the scene. The scene is stagnating and this reddit mentality helps nothing. I see this over and over again, anonymous posters pestering a public figure of the community until they snap and start lashing out, seen this with incontrol, idra, tb and countless others before. Like highschool bullying of some sort. The sad thing is when the game starts losing more and more presence these trolls will jump ship to whatever game.
I hope TB and Genna have the strength to keep on trucking, the voice of the community has become the bane of the people trying to advance Starcraft. You know who has been the most toxic during this whole thing, TB himself. He publically insulted and started a witchhunt against Take, please explain to me how this is justified or the appropriate thing to do. That is what happens when you get pestered by anonymous bullies, people are not robots and will start to get hurt and stressed out eventually. The ¨community backlash¨ is what started all of this like it always does. Can you stop treating TB like a saint? He started this shit with "fuck take" "fuck take he should stop trying to save face" Every fucking public message of him had only 1 purpose: hopefully the community will get mad at take Or can you tell me 1 other reason for making these rants public? that is literally the start of a shitstorm but it backfired.
That is how I see it aswell. TB tried to start a withhunt with the backing of his mindless fanboys to take Take down. That is one of the most toxic actions I have ever seen a public figure of SC2 has ever done.
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On August 17 2013 01:40 lunis wrote:Show nested quote +On August 17 2013 01:37 theBlues wrote:On August 17 2013 01:33 lunis wrote:On August 17 2013 01:31 theBlues wrote: This community is amazingly toxic, if this blows up to the point Axiom closes we will have one less team in the scene. The scene is stagnating and this reddit mentality helps nothing. I see this over and over again, anonymous posters pestering a public figure of the community until they snap and start lashing out, seen this with incontrol, idra, tb and countless others before. Like highschool bullying of some sort. The sad thing is when the game starts losing more and more presence these trolls will jump ship to whatever game.
I hope TB and Genna have the strength to keep on trucking, the voice of the community has become the bane of the people trying to advance Starcraft. You know who has been the most toxic during this whole thing, TB himself. He publically insulted and started a witchhunt against Take, please explain to me how this is justified or the appropriate thing to do. The ¨community backlash¨ is what started all of this like it always does. Bullshit. All of this was started because Genna made the chatlogs private, no one else is to blame for this public drama. The community/bullies/trolls or whoever did not demand for this to made public. They released this stuff to have the higher ground, and did it again after Take complained. No, thats wrong. The backlash started when they pulled out of the team league and people got upset about that, claiming they were unprofessional. They explained they tried to work it out and the money for the travel wasn't there. People didn't accept that and kept complaining, saying they should have known Take wouldn't cover the whole cost. Then they released the chat logs.
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On August 17 2013 01:42 Plansix wrote:Show nested quote +On August 17 2013 01:40 lunis wrote:On August 17 2013 01:37 theBlues wrote:On August 17 2013 01:33 lunis wrote:On August 17 2013 01:31 theBlues wrote: This community is amazingly toxic, if this blows up to the point Axiom closes we will have one less team in the scene. The scene is stagnating and this reddit mentality helps nothing. I see this over and over again, anonymous posters pestering a public figure of the community until they snap and start lashing out, seen this with incontrol, idra, tb and countless others before. Like highschool bullying of some sort. The sad thing is when the game starts losing more and more presence these trolls will jump ship to whatever game.
I hope TB and Genna have the strength to keep on trucking, the voice of the community has become the bane of the people trying to advance Starcraft. You know who has been the most toxic during this whole thing, TB himself. He publically insulted and started a witchhunt against Take, please explain to me how this is justified or the appropriate thing to do. The ¨community backlash¨ is what started all of this like it always does. Bullshit. All of this was started because Genna made the chatlogs private, no one else is to blame for this public drama. The community/bullies/trolls or whoever did not demand for this to made public. They released this stuff to have the higher ground, and did it again after Take complained. No, thats wrong. The backlash started when they pulled out of the team league and people got upset about that, claiming they were unprofessional. They explained they tried to work it out and the money for the travel wasn't there. People didn't accept that and kept complaining, saying they should have known Take wouldn't cover the whole cost. Then they released the chat logs.
Could you please point me in the direction where this happened. I remember that it was mostly a small minority who was complaining. Especially on Reddit people were just sad to see that Axiom couldn't be there.
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On August 17 2013 01:39 R3m3mb3rM3 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 17 2013 01:37 theBlues wrote:On August 17 2013 01:33 lunis wrote:On August 17 2013 01:31 theBlues wrote: This community is amazingly toxic, if this blows up to the point Axiom closes we will have one less team in the scene. The scene is stagnating and this reddit mentality helps nothing. I see this over and over again, anonymous posters pestering a public figure of the community until they snap and start lashing out, seen this with incontrol, idra, tb and countless others before. Like highschool bullying of some sort. The sad thing is when the game starts losing more and more presence these trolls will jump ship to whatever game.
I hope TB and Genna have the strength to keep on trucking, the voice of the community has become the bane of the people trying to advance Starcraft. You know who has been the most toxic during this whole thing, TB himself. He publically insulted and started a witchhunt against Take, please explain to me how this is justified or the appropriate thing to do. That is what happens when you get pestered by anonymous bullies, people are not robots and will start to get hurt and stressed out eventually. The ¨community backlash¨ is what started all of this like it always does. Can you stop treating TB like a saint? He started this shit with "fuck take" "fuck take he should stop trying to save face" Every fucking public message of him had only 1 purpose: hopefully the community will get mad at take Or can you tell me 1 other reason for making these rants public? that is literally the start of a shitstorm but it backfired.
You're even giving him more credit then he deserves. In a early thread he threw MVP under the bus with no provaction. When you attack as many people as he has, people are going to wait for an opening to come back at you. In this alone he has thrown Take, MVP, Liquid, Acer, insulted countless people on this forum.
He try's to disguise he drama creating as straight talking, when it's all BS. Its sad people by into it.
I hope he has wised up enough to stop posting, probably best for him to stop even reading it. The more he posts the more people see through him the less fans he has. When he started this most posters were actually on his side. But when you make this many bad moves, and insult this many people in such a short period of time peoples perspectives and opinions change.
The one thing he has in his favor is the only thing people like more then a fall is a comeback. If he apologizes and admits so fault, instead of constantly justifying bad behavior, most of his fans will forgive and forget and he can get back to what ever it was that he was actually successful at.
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On August 17 2013 01:36 Azelja wrote:Show nested quote +On August 17 2013 01:25 vrok wrote:On August 17 2013 01:15 Azelja wrote: And people here really have the audacity to even wonder why guys like Tasteless, Day9, Artosis or who-have-you don't check TL (anymore) and why MLG (among many others) have been so sparse with the intel they give out.
Good grief, why is this still my browser's homepage yet? Are you saying TB is responsible for Tasteless, Day9 and Artosis withdrawing? Otherwise I don't get your point, as he's the one posting the most toxic content in here, is he not? Or maybe you're saying that the community constantly posts private conversations with Tasteless, Day9 and Artosis in public to make them look bad? I'm not quite sure if you are serious or not... but oh well. What I am saying is that this community (I think given recent occurrences I should mention that obviously I'm not referring to the actually reasonable and genuinely nice people both here and the ones that go to offline tournaments to cheer) has gone so far downhill in it's (hurtful) flaming, trolling and drama-inducing bullshit that it can't even see the light of better days anymore yet still for some reason wonders why nobody likes it and many of the "community figures" are avoiding the forums. I guess my point is this.
You generalize too much. The community encompasses a wide variety of people that all speak out in different fashions and on different subjects.
And the only reason for this particular drama-inducing bullshit is because of Genna releasing private conversations publicly without permission (twice) and TB pouring gasoline on the situation by publicly flaming Take and the community without reason. The community has zero blame in this.
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On August 17 2013 01:22 {ToT}ColmA wrote:people should drop the "but xyz did good stuff in the past", when someone fucks up he fucks up and has to be accountable for it. (thats a general statement for all who are bad at comprehending )
"A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward." (George R. R. Martin)
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To speak of a debacle would be an understatement. Still, I don't understand why TB didn't already hire someone to handle his PRs, as he's clearly incapable of being a reasonable adult. Every time there's drama he acts like an immature child while spewing toxic around like a hydra. He's a far from being a rational beeing as it gets in this situation, which makes it really difficult to take him seriously.
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On August 17 2013 01:31 theBlues wrote: This community is amazingly toxic, if this blows up to the point Axiom closes we will have one less team in the scene. The scene is stagnating and this reddit mentality helps nothing. I see this over and over again, anonymous posters pestering a public figure of the community until they snap and start lashing out, seen this with incontrol, idra, tb and countless others before. Like highschool bullying of some sort. The sad thing is when the game starts losing more and more presence these trolls will jump ship to whatever game.
I hope TB and Genna have the strength to keep on trucking, the voice of the community has become the bane of the people trying to advance Starcraft. People notice the tree that falls, not the growing forest. Most people here still highly appreciate what TB and Genna have done/are doing for sc. Nobody is being crucified etc (except maybe TB following his agressive statements).
Most people here recognize Genna's good intentions but also voice their opinion she has carried them out in wrong fashion. Many of us here agree Axiom is to 'blame' for a big part in this case. Yeah, they made a mistake boo hoo. Axiom is in the top 3 most popular teams in teh community, receives support and will still receive support from it.
TLDR: Many people are critical of how Axiom handled this situation, which doesn't equal a public witch-hunt. I for one strongly disapprove with the way they handled this situation. TB's reaction was way over the top. But I will still support him and what he does, and appreciate the contributions they make to sc as a whole.
Edit: since Martin quotes are popular these days: “We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.” ― George R.R. Martin
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On August 17 2013 01:45 lunis wrote:Show nested quote +On August 17 2013 01:42 Plansix wrote:On August 17 2013 01:40 lunis wrote:On August 17 2013 01:37 theBlues wrote:On August 17 2013 01:33 lunis wrote:On August 17 2013 01:31 theBlues wrote: This community is amazingly toxic, if this blows up to the point Axiom closes we will have one less team in the scene. The scene is stagnating and this reddit mentality helps nothing. I see this over and over again, anonymous posters pestering a public figure of the community until they snap and start lashing out, seen this with incontrol, idra, tb and countless others before. Like highschool bullying of some sort. The sad thing is when the game starts losing more and more presence these trolls will jump ship to whatever game.
I hope TB and Genna have the strength to keep on trucking, the voice of the community has become the bane of the people trying to advance Starcraft. You know who has been the most toxic during this whole thing, TB himself. He publically insulted and started a witchhunt against Take, please explain to me how this is justified or the appropriate thing to do. The ¨community backlash¨ is what started all of this like it always does. Bullshit. All of this was started because Genna made the chatlogs private, no one else is to blame for this public drama. The community/bullies/trolls or whoever did not demand for this to made public. They released this stuff to have the higher ground, and did it again after Take complained. No, thats wrong. The backlash started when they pulled out of the team league and people got upset about that, claiming they were unprofessional. They explained they tried to work it out and the money for the travel wasn't there. People didn't accept that and kept complaining, saying they should have known Take wouldn't cover the whole cost. Then they released the chat logs. Could you please point me in the direction where this happened. I remember that it was mostly a small minority who was complaining. Especially on Reddit people were just sad to see that Axiom couldn't be there. I can't do a post by post break down at work, but the news came out via twitter, with a response from Take about an hour later, all on August 15th(TL time, it was the 14th for me). The blog was released 8-9 hours after the news broke and people were still going on and on about it.
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On August 17 2013 01:41 Plansix wrote:Show nested quote +On August 17 2013 01:36 Rob-Zero wrote:On August 17 2013 01:32 Plansix wrote:On August 17 2013 01:30 Rob-Zero wrote:On August 17 2013 01:25 NovemberstOrm wrote:On August 17 2013 01:20 lunis wrote:On August 17 2013 01:15 Azelja wrote: And people here really have the audacity to even wonder why guys like Tasteless, Day9, Artosis or who-have-you don't check TL (anymore) and why MLG (among many others) have been so sparse with the intel they give out.
Good grief, why is this still my browser's homepage yet? And this is exactly how this whole shitstorm could have been prevented. Just not make anything public. I don't quite get, why it had to be made public in the first place ? Was it supposed to be a smear campaign towards Take ? When Axiom started they stated they wanted to be as transparent as possible, of course this turned out to be a mistake sadly. Being transparent in anything business isn't a good idea. You can be transparent if you want, but at least arrange it with all parties involved in your transparency. There wasn't anything bad in what she released, so I dont see a problem. It mostly showed that both sides worked very hard to work something out. Really, I don't know why TakeTV is upset about it, because it really just shows that they both give a shit and it just didn't make sense for them to come. It was explained several times already why it was bad what she released (Take paying for Liquid, Acer looking bad, maybe Liquid does not want that anyone knows that Take helps them out f.e.), i absolutely see why TakeTV is upset about it, and you should, too. The whole things was a minor problem, not even worth mentioning, just some mistakes that can happen...as long as it was private. I'm not upset at all in any way. As I said in another thread, I am at work today preparing a motion to release another attorney's emails to the court to show he has been misleading the court and acting in bad faith. Although he never lies outright, he is a pain and likes to omit information he provides to the court and my attorneys are sick of it. It is considered unprofessional by some, but at the end of the day it gets what we want. Its mean, but we want him to knock it off and this is a slap in the face to get that done. Business is a mean and people don't always get along. We are not one big happy SC2 family, but a small group of teams and events all trying to make a living.
see i am curious, i already read your posts in the other thread and i agree that in business you sometimes need to cut someone loose or end a businessrelation for (primarily financial) gains.
But looking at this situation, there was no gain for Axiom, not participating in future Take events hurts them, they do not get money out of this either, the publicity is also not positive, if you take away simple exposure (which TB should have enough of) i cannot fathom any viable reason for Axiom / Genna / TB to worsen their image and their relations with Take at all, its simply not smart for their little venture, thus unprofessional imo.
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On August 17 2013 01:51 Naphal wrote:Show nested quote +On August 17 2013 01:41 Plansix wrote:On August 17 2013 01:36 Rob-Zero wrote:On August 17 2013 01:32 Plansix wrote:On August 17 2013 01:30 Rob-Zero wrote:On August 17 2013 01:25 NovemberstOrm wrote:On August 17 2013 01:20 lunis wrote:On August 17 2013 01:15 Azelja wrote: And people here really have the audacity to even wonder why guys like Tasteless, Day9, Artosis or who-have-you don't check TL (anymore) and why MLG (among many others) have been so sparse with the intel they give out.
Good grief, why is this still my browser's homepage yet? And this is exactly how this whole shitstorm could have been prevented. Just not make anything public. I don't quite get, why it had to be made public in the first place ? Was it supposed to be a smear campaign towards Take ? When Axiom started they stated they wanted to be as transparent as possible, of course this turned out to be a mistake sadly. Being transparent in anything business isn't a good idea. You can be transparent if you want, but at least arrange it with all parties involved in your transparency. There wasn't anything bad in what she released, so I dont see a problem. It mostly showed that both sides worked very hard to work something out. Really, I don't know why TakeTV is upset about it, because it really just shows that they both give a shit and it just didn't make sense for them to come. It was explained several times already why it was bad what she released (Take paying for Liquid, Acer looking bad, maybe Liquid does not want that anyone knows that Take helps them out f.e.), i absolutely see why TakeTV is upset about it, and you should, too. The whole things was a minor problem, not even worth mentioning, just some mistakes that can happen...as long as it was private. I'm not upset at all in any way. As I said in another thread, I am at work today preparing a motion to release another attorney's emails to the court to show he has been misleading the court and acting in bad faith. Although he never lies outright, he is a pain and likes to omit information he provides to the court and my attorneys are sick of it. It is considered unprofessional by some, but at the end of the day it gets what we want. Its mean, but we want him to knock it off and this is a slap in the face to get that done. Business is a mean and people don't always get along. We are not one big happy SC2 family, but a small group of teams and events all trying to make a living. see i am curious, i already read your posts in the other thread and i agree that in business you sometimes need to cut someone loose or end a businessrelation for (primarily financial) gains. But looking at this situation, there was no gain for Axiom, not participating in future Take events hurts them, they do not get money out of this either, the publicity is also not positive, if you take away simple exposure (which TB should have enough of) i cannot fathom any viable reason for Axiom / Genna / TB to worsen their image and their relations with Take at all, its simply not smart for their little venture, thus unprofessional imo. It was a little unprofessional, but that doesn't make it bad outright or anything people should be upset about. TB does not like Take and the world will continue spinning even though that it true. He isn't asking other people to hate Take TV and we shouldn't do that. This isn't highschool and two people not liking eachother does not mean that we need to pick a side or do anything of the sort. He is just being honest about his relationship with the group and we can take that into account in the future.
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On August 17 2013 01:42 Plansix wrote:Show nested quote +On August 17 2013 01:40 lunis wrote:On August 17 2013 01:37 theBlues wrote:On August 17 2013 01:33 lunis wrote:On August 17 2013 01:31 theBlues wrote: This community is amazingly toxic, if this blows up to the point Axiom closes we will have one less team in the scene. The scene is stagnating and this reddit mentality helps nothing. I see this over and over again, anonymous posters pestering a public figure of the community until they snap and start lashing out, seen this with incontrol, idra, tb and countless others before. Like highschool bullying of some sort. The sad thing is when the game starts losing more and more presence these trolls will jump ship to whatever game.
I hope TB and Genna have the strength to keep on trucking, the voice of the community has become the bane of the people trying to advance Starcraft. You know who has been the most toxic during this whole thing, TB himself. He publically insulted and started a witchhunt against Take, please explain to me how this is justified or the appropriate thing to do. The ¨community backlash¨ is what started all of this like it always does. Bullshit. All of this was started because Genna made the chatlogs private, no one else is to blame for this public drama. The community/bullies/trolls or whoever did not demand for this to made public. They released this stuff to have the higher ground, and did it again after Take complained. No, thats wrong. The backlash started when they pulled out of the team league and people got upset about that, claiming they were unprofessional. They explained they tried to work it out and the money for the travel wasn't there. People didn't accept that and kept complaining, saying they should have known Take wouldn't cover the whole cost. Then they released the chat logs.
This is whats going to taint everything from now on. Only because some people and it really is some people, not even a hounded wanted this. Literally everyone else didn't give a fuck, they were disappointed but hey lets try to save face (as mighty TB put it) instead and listen to these 100people that seem to give a lot of fucks.
- But hey don't we risk hurting SC2 eSports by posting it? Could there be a backlash because they'll read it and don't side with us?
HEY LETS POST IT ANYWAY AND BLAME IT ON OTHERS INSTEAD!
Seriously this whole fucking situation should now with everything in hand never have been published. Nothing good could have come from this!
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On August 17 2013 02:02 Plansix wrote:Show nested quote +On August 17 2013 01:51 Naphal wrote:On August 17 2013 01:41 Plansix wrote:On August 17 2013 01:36 Rob-Zero wrote:On August 17 2013 01:32 Plansix wrote:On August 17 2013 01:30 Rob-Zero wrote:On August 17 2013 01:25 NovemberstOrm wrote:On August 17 2013 01:20 lunis wrote:On August 17 2013 01:15 Azelja wrote: And people here really have the audacity to even wonder why guys like Tasteless, Day9, Artosis or who-have-you don't check TL (anymore) and why MLG (among many others) have been so sparse with the intel they give out.
Good grief, why is this still my browser's homepage yet? And this is exactly how this whole shitstorm could have been prevented. Just not make anything public. I don't quite get, why it had to be made public in the first place ? Was it supposed to be a smear campaign towards Take ? When Axiom started they stated they wanted to be as transparent as possible, of course this turned out to be a mistake sadly. Being transparent in anything business isn't a good idea. You can be transparent if you want, but at least arrange it with all parties involved in your transparency. There wasn't anything bad in what she released, so I dont see a problem. It mostly showed that both sides worked very hard to work something out. Really, I don't know why TakeTV is upset about it, because it really just shows that they both give a shit and it just didn't make sense for them to come. It was explained several times already why it was bad what she released (Take paying for Liquid, Acer looking bad, maybe Liquid does not want that anyone knows that Take helps them out f.e.), i absolutely see why TakeTV is upset about it, and you should, too. The whole things was a minor problem, not even worth mentioning, just some mistakes that can happen...as long as it was private. I'm not upset at all in any way. As I said in another thread, I am at work today preparing a motion to release another attorney's emails to the court to show he has been misleading the court and acting in bad faith. Although he never lies outright, he is a pain and likes to omit information he provides to the court and my attorneys are sick of it. It is considered unprofessional by some, but at the end of the day it gets what we want. Its mean, but we want him to knock it off and this is a slap in the face to get that done. Business is a mean and people don't always get along. We are not one big happy SC2 family, but a small group of teams and events all trying to make a living. see i am curious, i already read your posts in the other thread and i agree that in business you sometimes need to cut someone loose or end a businessrelation for (primarily financial) gains. But looking at this situation, there was no gain for Axiom, not participating in future Take events hurts them, they do not get money out of this either, the publicity is also not positive, if you take away simple exposure (which TB should have enough of) i cannot fathom any viable reason for Axiom / Genna / TB to worsen their image and their relations with Take at all, its simply not smart for their little venture, thus unprofessional imo. It was a little unprofessional, but that doesn't make it bad outright or anything people should be upset about. TB does not like Take and the world will continue spinning even though that it true. He isn't asking other people to hate Take TV and we shouldn't do that. This isn't highschool and two people not liking eachother does not mean that we need to pick a side or do anything of the sort. He is just being honest about his relationship with the group and we can take that into account in the future. There would be no reason what so ever to post private conversations if Axiom/Genna didn't specifically want people to take sides. Same with TB writing Fuck TaKe on twitter. It's all about throwing shit at people, hoping that other people will find them stinky afterwards.
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Basically if genna had wrote this Axiom owner Genna Bain's comment on Reddit
+ Show Spoiler +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Just going to add some additional info here. Several reasons have prevented us from participating in the offline portion of ATC.
•After WCS NA, we felt that CranK needed to focus on recovering from his injury.
•There is not much time left to prepare for DreamHack Bucharest and we want to be in top condition. (Also in the event we make it to the SC2L offline portion, we wanted to be prepared for that as well.)
•We were not directly made aware that teams would only receive $1500 for the entire team to travel from Korea to Germany until flights were ridiculously overpriced. ($1500 per team is comped by ATC, not per person)
While our team is not in any kind of financial distress (if it were, I have my primary accounts and 401K to dip into) it is my goal as owner of Axiom to break even as much as possible and not to grossly exceed our income from sponsorship. It's not always pleasant to have to be fiscally responsible, but there are other factors at work here which made my decision to keep the team at home easier.
Thank you all for your understanding in this matter. We have some wonderful sponsors and fans who expected to see us compete at this event and we are very sorry to have to let everyone down by forfeiting our position in ATC. We are sure that ATC will announce our replacement shortly, so please support them and enjoy the finals regardless of our absence." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take wrote this
+ Show Spoiler +TaKe's official statement from TakeTV
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hey everyone in the esportscene as you have seen Axiom did a post that they won`t be able to participate in the Acer TeamStoryCup powered by Intel which makes me very sad! I have seen some bad feedback from the community which gives me a very bad feeling cause Axiom same as us tried to figure out all options if they can make it and do not have to cancel thier participation.
We kept talking for along time already and also informed Millenium right after we knew that it _might_ happen that Axiom won t be able to attend. I wanna thank Axiom for keep talking to us and trying to find a solution. So as you can see Millenium will be the replacement in this case - Stuff like this can happen and is very sad for the team itself cause they fought for this place.
I hope to see Axiom back in action if there is a next season and they can do it once again to qualify for the Finals! I hope even with this bad news you are looking forward to the ATC Finale as i do which will be already saturday and i also wanna let you guys know that we try to work on this league to let stuff like this not happen again and try to have even a better communication to the teams but don t forget esport is a very very busy business and all of the people actually working here invest more time than most "normal" people would ever do.
Thanks, Dennis
And Tb had wrote just this
+ Show Spoiler +My view on this is frankly pragmatic. Take and ATC are not suffering in any way. Millenium was confirmed as our replacement some time ago in private, which has been announced today. The roster has not suffered and the tournament will happen as normal, just like any other tournament that has a cancellation and has to find substitutes. Millenium are popular and will no doubt bring in the French crowd that otherwise might not have watched the event, balancing out the lost numbers from Axiom players not participating. The net cost to Take and ATC is zero, who are still paying out the same regardless, they are just paying it out to a different team. The tournament will go ahead as planned with a roster change, there is no disruption to the event.
On Axioms side, we have provided the following. 14 weeks of competition at unholy hours of the night for our players with no prize money. Our players have essentially worked hard for something they will no longer receive. Our sponsors will not receive exposure in the finals as we had hoped, so they are losing out. The team in general suffers, the tournament does not. ATC also received many hours of free casting from myself and the sponsors benefited from that significantly, with views 3-5x higher on average than the other English streams and an additional 20-30,000 views per series from VoDs hosted on the TotalBiscuit Starcraft Youtube channel, giving exceptional sponsor ROI Acer and Intel that would otherwise not have existed. Teams also received sponsor ROI due to use of the virtual jersey in all matches, software we developed specifically to help everyone.
So, after all that, my opinion of this is that the backlash on Axiom is unwarranted and makes little logical sense, when Axiom are the ones who put a lot into this tournament and are suffering due to a combination of unforeseen and unfortunate circumstances. If anything I would have hoped for support from the community in a difficult time for the team, but for the most part it seems that will not be happening. As always, we will endure that and push on regardless.
Then this would have passed over and been a thread filled with, Well that sucks at least mill going, and Crap wanted to see Axiom, and been over. Instead TB decided to start insulting people in the community to get some face time. Then Genna, I'm assuming thinking if people saw what she did would be more understanding posts what she did. After people including Take were offended instead of agreeing. Again instead of being calm and professional TB used his regular approach of attacking. Which cause another crap storm. Then genna quit, AND AGAIN instead of being calm or professional, even though he claimed he was going to, heads right bac into attacking people on the forums and on twitter.
This could have been a complete non issue. And the quotes I used are what people actaully said, even the one from TB. Sadly he mixed in 50 jerk posts, and cause a raging forest fire from a small camp fire. Don't feel sorry for TB he created this. Feel bad for all the others pulled into the mess. Including his wife, who instead of protecting he is making a target. Its akin to he saw his wife in a room with a bear, the bear was sleeping so he decides screw this bear I'm gonna start poking it repeadly with a stick. Not shockingly bear wakes up mad. But I digress.
If some one collected all the posts this could be a perfect case study on what not to do and then you could show how professonal organizations handle MUCH MUCH bigger issues then axiom pulling out of the live finals.
Heck they could have just said "Sorry we can't make it guys we feel awful, wish we coudl be there but with Miya retiring and Cranks health we just can't. Glad millinum is stepping up hope its a great tournment. We arn't going anywhere and are going to come back stronger. Thanks for all your support sorry to disapoint in this case, we will be back!"
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On August 17 2013 02:02 Plansix wrote:Show nested quote +On August 17 2013 01:51 Naphal wrote:On August 17 2013 01:41 Plansix wrote:On August 17 2013 01:36 Rob-Zero wrote:On August 17 2013 01:32 Plansix wrote:On August 17 2013 01:30 Rob-Zero wrote:On August 17 2013 01:25 NovemberstOrm wrote:On August 17 2013 01:20 lunis wrote:On August 17 2013 01:15 Azelja wrote: And people here really have the audacity to even wonder why guys like Tasteless, Day9, Artosis or who-have-you don't check TL (anymore) and why MLG (among many others) have been so sparse with the intel they give out.
Good grief, why is this still my browser's homepage yet? And this is exactly how this whole shitstorm could have been prevented. Just not make anything public. I don't quite get, why it had to be made public in the first place ? Was it supposed to be a smear campaign towards Take ? When Axiom started they stated they wanted to be as transparent as possible, of course this turned out to be a mistake sadly. Being transparent in anything business isn't a good idea. You can be transparent if you want, but at least arrange it with all parties involved in your transparency. There wasn't anything bad in what she released, so I dont see a problem. It mostly showed that both sides worked very hard to work something out. Really, I don't know why TakeTV is upset about it, because it really just shows that they both give a shit and it just didn't make sense for them to come. It was explained several times already why it was bad what she released (Take paying for Liquid, Acer looking bad, maybe Liquid does not want that anyone knows that Take helps them out f.e.), i absolutely see why TakeTV is upset about it, and you should, too. The whole things was a minor problem, not even worth mentioning, just some mistakes that can happen...as long as it was private. I'm not upset at all in any way. As I said in another thread, I am at work today preparing a motion to release another attorney's emails to the court to show he has been misleading the court and acting in bad faith. Although he never lies outright, he is a pain and likes to omit information he provides to the court and my attorneys are sick of it. It is considered unprofessional by some, but at the end of the day it gets what we want. Its mean, but we want him to knock it off and this is a slap in the face to get that done. Business is a mean and people don't always get along. We are not one big happy SC2 family, but a small group of teams and events all trying to make a living. see i am curious, i already read your posts in the other thread and i agree that in business you sometimes need to cut someone loose or end a businessrelation for (primarily financial) gains. But looking at this situation, there was no gain for Axiom, not participating in future Take events hurts them, they do not get money out of this either, the publicity is also not positive, if you take away simple exposure (which TB should have enough of) i cannot fathom any viable reason for Axiom / Genna / TB to worsen their image and their relations with Take at all, its simply not smart for their little venture, thus unprofessional imo. It was a little unprofessional, but that doesn't make it bad outright or anything people should be upset about. TB does not like Take and the world will continue spinning even though that it true. He isn't asking other people to hate Take TV and we shouldn't do that. This isn't highschool and two people not liking eachother does not mean that we need to pick a side or do anything of the sort. He is just being honest about his relationship with the group and we can take that into account in the future.
I think by publicly stating you hate x and wont particpate in X you are hoping others will follow your lead. Otherwise you would simply do it and not announce it.
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On August 17 2013 02:08 JimmiC wrote:Show nested quote +On August 17 2013 02:02 Plansix wrote:On August 17 2013 01:51 Naphal wrote:On August 17 2013 01:41 Plansix wrote:On August 17 2013 01:36 Rob-Zero wrote:On August 17 2013 01:32 Plansix wrote:On August 17 2013 01:30 Rob-Zero wrote:On August 17 2013 01:25 NovemberstOrm wrote:On August 17 2013 01:20 lunis wrote:On August 17 2013 01:15 Azelja wrote: And people here really have the audacity to even wonder why guys like Tasteless, Day9, Artosis or who-have-you don't check TL (anymore) and why MLG (among many others) have been so sparse with the intel they give out.
Good grief, why is this still my browser's homepage yet? And this is exactly how this whole shitstorm could have been prevented. Just not make anything public. I don't quite get, why it had to be made public in the first place ? Was it supposed to be a smear campaign towards Take ? When Axiom started they stated they wanted to be as transparent as possible, of course this turned out to be a mistake sadly. Being transparent in anything business isn't a good idea. You can be transparent if you want, but at least arrange it with all parties involved in your transparency. There wasn't anything bad in what she released, so I dont see a problem. It mostly showed that both sides worked very hard to work something out. Really, I don't know why TakeTV is upset about it, because it really just shows that they both give a shit and it just didn't make sense for them to come. It was explained several times already why it was bad what she released (Take paying for Liquid, Acer looking bad, maybe Liquid does not want that anyone knows that Take helps them out f.e.), i absolutely see why TakeTV is upset about it, and you should, too. The whole things was a minor problem, not even worth mentioning, just some mistakes that can happen...as long as it was private. I'm not upset at all in any way. As I said in another thread, I am at work today preparing a motion to release another attorney's emails to the court to show he has been misleading the court and acting in bad faith. Although he never lies outright, he is a pain and likes to omit information he provides to the court and my attorneys are sick of it. It is considered unprofessional by some, but at the end of the day it gets what we want. Its mean, but we want him to knock it off and this is a slap in the face to get that done. Business is a mean and people don't always get along. We are not one big happy SC2 family, but a small group of teams and events all trying to make a living. see i am curious, i already read your posts in the other thread and i agree that in business you sometimes need to cut someone loose or end a businessrelation for (primarily financial) gains. But looking at this situation, there was no gain for Axiom, not participating in future Take events hurts them, they do not get money out of this either, the publicity is also not positive, if you take away simple exposure (which TB should have enough of) i cannot fathom any viable reason for Axiom / Genna / TB to worsen their image and their relations with Take at all, its simply not smart for their little venture, thus unprofessional imo. It was a little unprofessional, but that doesn't make it bad outright or anything people should be upset about. TB does not like Take and the world will continue spinning even though that it true. He isn't asking other people to hate Take TV and we shouldn't do that. This isn't highschool and two people not liking eachother does not mean that we need to pick a side or do anything of the sort. He is just being honest about his relationship with the group and we can take that into account in the future. I think by publicly stating you hate x and wont particpate in X you are hoping others will follow your lead. Otherwise you would simply do it and not announce it. That was not a good move in any way, but I don't really expect rational responses from people when their families are involved. As someone who is in the legal field, professionalism goes out the door when family becomes involved. Its likely why they hired a manager, to add a bit of buffer between TB and the events.
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On August 17 2013 02:12 Plansix wrote:Show nested quote +On August 17 2013 02:08 JimmiC wrote:On August 17 2013 02:02 Plansix wrote:On August 17 2013 01:51 Naphal wrote:On August 17 2013 01:41 Plansix wrote:On August 17 2013 01:36 Rob-Zero wrote:On August 17 2013 01:32 Plansix wrote:On August 17 2013 01:30 Rob-Zero wrote:On August 17 2013 01:25 NovemberstOrm wrote:On August 17 2013 01:20 lunis wrote: [quote]
And this is exactly how this whole shitstorm could have been prevented. Just not make anything public. I don't quite get, why it had to be made public in the first place ? Was it supposed to be a smear campaign towards Take ? When Axiom started they stated they wanted to be as transparent as possible, of course this turned out to be a mistake sadly. Being transparent in anything business isn't a good idea. You can be transparent if you want, but at least arrange it with all parties involved in your transparency. There wasn't anything bad in what she released, so I dont see a problem. It mostly showed that both sides worked very hard to work something out. Really, I don't know why TakeTV is upset about it, because it really just shows that they both give a shit and it just didn't make sense for them to come. It was explained several times already why it was bad what she released (Take paying for Liquid, Acer looking bad, maybe Liquid does not want that anyone knows that Take helps them out f.e.), i absolutely see why TakeTV is upset about it, and you should, too. The whole things was a minor problem, not even worth mentioning, just some mistakes that can happen...as long as it was private. I'm not upset at all in any way. As I said in another thread, I am at work today preparing a motion to release another attorney's emails to the court to show he has been misleading the court and acting in bad faith. Although he never lies outright, he is a pain and likes to omit information he provides to the court and my attorneys are sick of it. It is considered unprofessional by some, but at the end of the day it gets what we want. Its mean, but we want him to knock it off and this is a slap in the face to get that done. Business is a mean and people don't always get along. We are not one big happy SC2 family, but a small group of teams and events all trying to make a living. see i am curious, i already read your posts in the other thread and i agree that in business you sometimes need to cut someone loose or end a businessrelation for (primarily financial) gains. But looking at this situation, there was no gain for Axiom, not participating in future Take events hurts them, they do not get money out of this either, the publicity is also not positive, if you take away simple exposure (which TB should have enough of) i cannot fathom any viable reason for Axiom / Genna / TB to worsen their image and their relations with Take at all, its simply not smart for their little venture, thus unprofessional imo. It was a little unprofessional, but that doesn't make it bad outright or anything people should be upset about. TB does not like Take and the world will continue spinning even though that it true. He isn't asking other people to hate Take TV and we shouldn't do that. This isn't highschool and two people not liking eachother does not mean that we need to pick a side or do anything of the sort. He is just being honest about his relationship with the group and we can take that into account in the future. I think by publicly stating you hate x and wont particpate in X you are hoping others will follow your lead. Otherwise you would simply do it and not announce it. That was not a good move in any way, but I don't really expect rational responses from people when their families are involved. As someone who is in the legal field, professionalism goes out the door when family becomes involved. Its likely why they hired a manager, to add a bit of buffer between TB and the events.
I guess my main issues is with why the family is involved. I find it hard to feel sorry for someone who created the mess.
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