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Ange: "The Truth behind Shadowleague"
Head manager of ShadowLeague's "Trophy of legends" competition Laurent "Ange" Blum explains the situation behind the league not paying certain players.
By Duncan 'Thorin' Shields
May 5, 2010 17:44
Head manager of ShadowLeague's "Trophy of legends" competition Laurent "Ange" Blum explains the situation behind the league not paying certain players.Laurent "Ange" Blum, who is best known as the former head manager of ShadowLeague's "Trophy of legends" competition, has released an article entitled 'The Truth behind Shadowleague'. The event infamously did not pay some of its players so Ange strives to "explain the whole story and how such bad things could happen".
Addressing who was and wasn't paid by ShadowLeague:
He ends the article addressing those still owed money:
Source: mymym
Addressing who was and wasn't paid by ShadowLeague:
"- The Shadowleague (Alexandre Kapinos and Pierre-Jean Catherine) paid some of the old pros generously before the tournament for a total of 1800 euros (they received all the money via Paypal). Here is the list of the one we paid if you want to confirm:
• MadFroG
• Tak3r
• Showtime
• Sweet
• FoV
• ToD
- The Shadowleague paid me well. I didn’t get any problem with them and my salary.
- The Shadowleague didn’t pay the final prizes to Infi , Focus and Sweet."
• MadFroG
• Tak3r
• Showtime
• Sweet
• FoV
• ToD
- The Shadowleague paid me well. I didn’t get any problem with them and my salary.
- The Shadowleague didn’t pay the final prizes to Infi , Focus and Sweet."
He ends the article addressing those still owed money:
"Here is my message for the teams and the managers:
If any of you need help: getting support in France, need telephone numbers of the owner, need to go to the court, need document or whatever related to this story I’m free to help you.
I am now working in MYM management and also in TV so I’ve good contacts. If I can help any of you in any way I’ll do it.
Just contact me."
If any of you need help: getting support in France, need telephone numbers of the owner, need to go to the court, need document or whatever related to this story I’m free to help you.
I am now working in MYM management and also in TV so I’ve good contacts. If I can help any of you in any way I’ll do it.
Just contact me."
Source: mymym
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As i thought from the start, the tournament was stinking with failure, not only was it chopped into pieces that makes everyone forgett about it, they also failed to pay the ppl playing, even after having everyone to "#¤&/& register at the shadowleague site to watch replays and what not.
p.s I missed the final! who won?
if yes...try understanding it.
If you had actually read the article, retard, you would know that nothing was Ange's fault. The French TV. Ange explained it all quite clearly in the article that Ange wrote about how Ange had nothing to do with the colossal fucking mess that the league Ange ran eventually became... Ange, French TV.
Ange League was actually run to perfection, no problems what so ever on Ange leagues end. The ONE and ONLY problem with Ange league was the fact that only a handful of people were paid what they were owed in the end.
As for the shitty website; the three weeks of matches spread out across 30 weeks; the lack of coverage and the constant changes in what little coverage they did have; the changes that showed how short sighted they actually were, like forcing people to register for the website to access it, then changing it when they realized what a huge fucking mistake it was; the lack of sponsor interest; the incompetence of most of the staff; the complete and total lack of a business plan that was not put together by a mongoloid; zero company structure; their inability to market the league; their inability to communicate with partners to provide a cohesive working environment ETC. None of this actually happened, it's all made up. French TV.
By the way, Ange works for the French TV you know. Did you know he works for the French TV?
Just this basic fact that the contracts made in e-sports are so sloppy and floppy and no one would work (in real situation, in a real job, in real life) for that seriously. Concerning myself I wouldn't start doing anything at all if i couldn't be sure the money comes regulary and in time. Neither of these happens inside e-sports: the money comes anything but regularly and hardly ever in time. And sometimes teams just overbook themselves: they get massive good players with great promises and end up telling them "sorry no money in the end of month". This has been experienced a thousand times in the past: players leaving teams because they are put against wall of management: either your salary reduced or we can't afford having you. Think about that in real life: you worked hard for a company for a month and in the end of month they tell ya "ok sorry we have hired 10 new guys along you and we can't afford to pay you what we promised, let's get this over, go or we have you fired"
This kind of business just is not business, this kind of thing just isn't working and there's a long road to go for e-sports to make the players trust em, so many missed salaries and prizes of players that it's disgusting. And the players (in the first line) seem to be going for it themselves: many players just accept it and move over to a new organisation with a team and then leave their money behind. Stand up and fight for it, make the rules of e-sports clear: where the money moves there's responsibility. It's about the time the organisations start doing what they promise. Missing the prize of a tournament like Trophy of legends is a joke especially when it was marketed as a reliable and serious tournament. And Ange is at least man enough to try to solve it out, unfornately the guys with the money are far away.