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"There is no point in being angry at yourself for mistakes unless you combine it with a resolve to do better next time."

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I've done many regretful and damaging things to the scene in the past months (specifically after the inauguration of sR), and this will serve as an apology to all that were affected and to those that I betrayed. It will also serve as a constant reminder that I made a lot of mistakes in the past few months and that I will try my best to do better, but here we go


When sR started up, it was intentionally going to be a "troll" clan, where only a select few of my friends and I would play in clan wars and play around together. Initially, I never thought of growing it into a community clan and after we were successful in our first couple clan wars, I felt like I could do something better with the clan and really make sR one of the top clans. But to do that and to make people pay attention sR had to had to be recognized for more feats. ToR was recognized as the best clan outside of aLt and TA at the time and we wanted to win our clan war vs them as much as possible. in doing so, when we opened up with a strong lead, DaNo demolished our players until we had 1 player left. It was a call that made me delve deeper into the world where I made mistakes, and we called upon FrontierSPR to play ace, which he eventually lost due to being called to play for SPR in their other cw and he thereby threw the game.

When people start to do wrong things, they don't really realize the severity of their actions and I at the time, admittedly didn't feel I did much wrong sending Frontier, especially since he lost. However, after SanG did research work and found out about our usage of one of SPR's players, he approached me and that was when I realized I was stepping into uncharted territory. I understood that I did something wrong, but to prove that we would not commit wrong again we had to make a difference through our actions instead of our words. So there goes on a few months, I try my best to create a more positive image of sR, the activity within the clan is resumed and a lot more new talent is being recruited. I'm really happy with the success I was able to create but it wasn't enough.

As many people already know, I was very close to announcing vN recently, and around a month before this, Antelope approached me with the offer to join sR, but we had no BSG division. To be honest, almost about to abandon my duties as the sR leader to turn into a full-time manager/player for vN I really let go of trying to rebuild sR's reputation and my mistakes were resumed, once again. After watching a sour defeat of the sR.BSG division to ToR's Suipr (All-kill) I felt that our BSG division was not being represented well. I saw posts like "sR isn't ready to take wins off other well established BSG rosters" and I was propelled into wanting to restore faith in some people by helping sR win their next CW. So I did it. I played for the BSG division, playing T and I won the CW vs FS for them. I felt bitter about what I did and promised to never play again.

Fast forward 2 weeks, sR had a clan war with TCP. We were, once again, extremely close to defeat and in that period Antelope found Psych to play for him. Psych, being in TCP before really wanted it and one again I felt, hey it doesn't really matter. I believed that until last night, when the SC2SEA Admin team (with their exceptional talents) caught me and Psych out. To be honest, I was waiting for it to happen but I had concealed myself with so many lies beforehand to try and make myself feel better of what I did that when Lemminks finally PMed me with their conclusive evidence I completely blanked out for a moment. I took a few moment to think and acknowledged my wrongdoings to him.

I know after this "coming out", I will never again be respected by the community and have severely damaged the reputation of sR and possibly vN in the making. However, I, along with Antelope and Psych would like to apologize to the community and I really want to make sure I really repent my mistakes with actions, myself this time. I hope that all of sR's players from across all divisions continue to strive for better results and try to forget the things I have done, good and bad and look forward to a better future with Dream. I hope my mistakes do not create a poor image on the players on sR, who really deserve much more respect than I ever will in this community. Each and every one of them deserve a second chance more than I. I was given one and I let go of it as soon as I asked for it, and I will try my best to correct my mistakes.

All in all, I will leave sR and leave Dream (Hoa Truong) aka marinehero from BW and I am ready to take any punishment set before me by the team, readily. I want to distance myself from vN as well, and leave it to the capable hands of Firefly (Peter Barber), who has attended multiple LANS in melbourne with his buddy RuineD. I want to thank each and every one of you who have helped build sR to this and helped the initiating of vN and apologize to all the people that I have hurt throughout this process, specifically all members of SC2SEA but the players affected by the wrongdoings of my actions and the unnecessary fights between "x clan member" and "y clan member". I want this to stop and I hope that people allow me to take the full blame for my and other's actions and I hope you guys will give me another chance in the future (near or not).

For now, hopefully, I will be able to continue adminning wT weekly and coaching players, trying to improve myself as much as I can and continue to help the scene in any way I can. I hope that everyone sees my mistakes and never ever thinks of doing anything as stupid as I have done. I notice that I am still 14 but I also know that this doesn't explain or reduce the severity of my actions.

TLDR;
+ [Timeline] +
  • Helped start up sR but realized we could so something big with it. In first clan war with major clan ToR, decided to call upon Korean player from SPR, Frontier. Start of my wrongdoings
  • Apologized to people, asked for a second chance
  • Started going on track, about to start up vN but wanted to help regain face for bSG division after upsetting first cw all kill, started mistakes again



Thank you and GLHF, a thousand apologies again.
GRiM

Special sorries to: Lemminks (TCP), Spartaz (ToR), sPooK (ToR), Chadmann (fray, TA) and nirvana. They were the ones that gave me a second chance and I let go of it. I am very sorry to the rest of SC2SEA as well.
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New Tue, 25th-Sep-2012, 3:26 PM BnetId: RicocheT  Race: Clan: mGG  Location: Perth  Total Posts: 390  # 16
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Re: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Regardless the way you went about taking FaDe members was completely wrong. At least have the decency to tell us that they want to leave for your clan and then they can leave in a professional way, not any of this subtle ninja crap. At least now you'll stop trying to get Shampoo to join sR.
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New Tue, 25th-Sep-2012, 3:35 PM BnetId: sRGRiM.784  Race: Clan: N/A  Location: Hong Kong  Total Posts: 860  # 17
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Regardless the way you went about taking FaDe members was completely wrong. At least have the decency to tell us that they want to leave for your clan and then they can leave in a professional way, not any of this subtle ninja crap. At least now you'll stop trying to get Shampoo to join sR.
The way I went about Shampoo was completely wrong. I only asked because he used to be in my clan before FaDe, and it was definitely shady on my part. Sorry. eKol, Winter and Anti are a band of friends and they chose to join through applications as the other ex-FaDe members were my IRL friends that wanted to hop on board in first instance. (I just mentioned it to them, didn't ask them to join)
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New Tue, 25th-Sep-2012, 3:37 PM BnetId: RuineD.430  Race: Location: Melbourne, Australia  Total Posts: 442  # 18
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EDIT: DISREGARD WHAT I JUST SAID IM MAD
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New Tue, 25th-Sep-2012, 3:47 PM BnetId: Dante  Race: Location: Hong Kong  Total Posts: 160  # 19
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Grim is my irl school mate, so i was joining sR to help my friend develop a clan. I am sorry to FaDe but I was still in vacation and wasnt thinking clearly. oh and wtf.... you smurfed for bsg.
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New Tue, 25th-Sep-2012, 3:58 PM   Race: Location: Melbourne, Australia  Total Posts: 11  # 20
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I was unaware of all of this. I have not spoken to grim in the last few days. Frankly I am very taken aback. I had no idea we were surfing players. I have stopped those who had wanted to before, saying that we were not a clan that does such things. To hold integrity and to be one of the most respected and well viewed in SEA.

To be honest I feel a little betrayed. I now have the responsibility to fully manage a clan with apparently a bad reputation. I am relativity new to the SEA community and was unaware of these negative connotations that sR held.

If you've met me at an event or spoken to me in real life or even just over Skype, I try and be the most friendly and inviting person I can be. So I want to make it clear that I had no idea that any of this was going on.

I am also a little disgusted that these things were kept from me.

At the moment I am feeling hurt and irate, I need a while to think things over.
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New Tue, 25th-Sep-2012, 4:05 PM BnetId: TCPKerO.324  Race: Clan: TCP  Location: Elimbah, QLD, Aus  Total Posts: 147  # 21
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Re: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

It does take a lot of guts to name names and own up for your own wrongdoings, so thank you for that GRiM.

But the real consequence is how this is going to effect the sR clan, there is going to be a lot of miss givings towards sR players now and that is something that is never needed in a community such as ours.

I hope that you've learnt and will grow from this negative experience and endeavor to improve yourself for the future.

You might earn your forgiveness in the future though positive actions for the sc2sea community but it will be a long road.

glhf
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New Tue, 25th-Sep-2012, 4:07 PM BnetId: PickleWeasel  Race: Location: Melbourne, Australia  Total Posts: 462  # 22
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This should be a film, someone write up a script and send it to M. Night Shyamalan. Serious drama blockbuster, lots of twists and mysterious behaviour behind the scenes.
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New Tue, 25th-Sep-2012, 4:20 PM BnetId: sRGRiM.784  Race: Clan: N/A  Location: Hong Kong  Total Posts: 860  # 23
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P.S, I have left sR and any ties with vN, although I feel I have gravely affected both...
Thanks for people that believe I can change and I will try my best assuredly. Thanks and a thousand apologies to everyone again.
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New Tue, 25th-Sep-2012, 4:29 PM BnetId: arteezy  Race: Location: Singapore  Total Posts: 622  # 24
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I'd also like to apologize for what I've have done in the BSG. We didn't have a full active roster, and I rushed things and organized clan wars that I knew we weren't prepared for.
I also fully apologize about my actions, and I'm very sorry to everyone at TCP and FS, I know I tried building a reputation here, but after this, I realized that I won't be able to be forgiven. I've left sR, and I'll slowly become less active on sc2sea and lurk around. I'll hope, one day, I'll returned when I'm older, more matured, til then thank you and farewell.

I'd like to thank GRiM for being an amazing leader, he was an amazing mentor, and even though we had fought a lot, I hope we can still remain in touch. I also like to thank Cyanide, BakaInu, Rogue, Petraeus and Spook for making sc2sea enjoyable, I don't expect to be forgiven for my actions. I guess my ambition took over my morales.
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New Tue, 25th-Sep-2012, 5:00 PM BnetId: EU.Nemo #368  Race: Location: Paris, France  Total Posts: 752  # 25
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Grim, I can't believe you got caught once, had a second chance and smurfed again ...

I hope you understand now that cheating HAS an importance. You will serve your punishment and return. But never do such things again, never.
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New Tue, 25th-Sep-2012, 5:06 PM   Race: Location: Melbourne, Australia  Total Posts: 11  # 26
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We as a team were promised by Grim lots. As the manager of Vn, I will not be continuing in pioneering this new team because those promises have apparently been empty. I will also leave sR. I never actually asked for a management role. I feel it is unfair to place this responsibility on me after not even consulting me before hand. I will talk to the team and see if anyone wants to pick up the flag.

Really what I am thinking now is "Seriously... wtf" because it sounds like a big joke, and all our hard work has been for nothing.

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New Tue, 25th-Sep-2012, 5:27 PM BnetId: BenAD.379  Race: Clan: FS  Location: Adelaide, Australia  Total Posts: 750  # 27
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This is really disappointing, winning tournaments and clan wars do not make great clans, but being respected by other clans, having a great community and always playing fairly does. I hope lots of people learn a valuable lesson from this.

I feel for the sR players who had no knowledge of what occurred.

I hope this doesn’t discourage BSG players from stepping up for their clans, its a great thing to do and all BSG players should get involved in clans and the wider community.
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New Tue, 25th-Sep-2012, 6:08 PM BnetId: TAChadMann.277  Race: Clan: TA/sR  Location: Byron Bay  Total Posts: 2,806  # 28
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ehhh Come on guys - we don't want to see a clan die for this.

GRiM, Antelope - you guys do have something to offer this community. But you must and will be punished for your actions. Please don't leave the clan or this scene - don't run from your wrong-doings.. but amend them. Find a way to make it back to the community and serve out your punishment. As part of the admins involved in this investigation - I can assure you that none of the admins want sR or vN to dissolve. Our intention is to stop smurfing and punish those involved so others can see its not worth it.

GRiM and Antelope - Running from the community because of this isn't the right result. Please keep working hard (the right way) to build YOUR clan... and keep working on the wT's because those are the great ways to build your clan's rep - its not about winning. It's about being a positive member of the community. Do that and sR will regain their respect.

Glad you could finally come clean about this. Although I would have liked you to be honest from the start - or not even smurf
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New Tue, 25th-Sep-2012, 6:24 PM BnetId: sRGRiM.784  Race: Clan: N/A  Location: Hong Kong  Total Posts: 860  # 29
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ehhh Come on guys - we don't want to see a clan die for this.

GRiM, Antelope - you guys do have something to offer this community. But you must and will be punished for your actions. Please don't leave the clan or this scene - don't run from your wrong-doings.. but amend them. Find a way to make it back to the community and serve out your punishment. As part of the admins involved in this investigation - I can assure you that none of the admins want sR or vN to dissolve. Our intention is to stop smurfing and punish those involved so others can see its not worth it.

GRiM and Antelope - Running from the community because of this isn't the right result. Please keep working hard (the right way) to build YOUR clan... and keep working on the wT's because those are the great ways to build your clan's rep - its not about winning. It's about being a positive member of the community. Do that and sR will regain their respect.

Glad you could finally come clean about this. Although I would have liked you to be honest from the start - or not even smurf
I never said I would run away from my punishment or from this scene. However, I think Antelope has and that is his decision. I will try my best to serve out whatever punishment is given, stay in the scene and try to help out the people that I have damaged through this. vN will most likely die but I am sure Dream can do well with sR.
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New Tue, 25th-Sep-2012, 6:43 PM BnetId: bwodie.447  Race: Clan: IXL  Location: NSW  Total Posts: 19  # 30
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sadness...
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