[TAEdgE]

Yeh saw this coming from when it first came out Yoon. I like the stance you took in writing this.
The last comment he said, I hope came about because of the shit situation not because of some shit personality assessment by him.

[CubeSalt]

Gus is the corruptor of sc2... he also cancelled the flight of all members of team cubes from the province of philippines (cebu) whos qualify from the tournament IPL ... this guy is racist and scumbag... he's taking advantage of esports for his own interest... this guy must be stop and be cast out from the community of esports... damn you u giving bad image of the philippine esports gaming industry...

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	TAEdgE:	oh wow, didn't know about this!
	nirvAnA:	so cute english!! haha but thanks for sharing this
	EveMassacrisM:	What a buncha fucktards
	ZraF:

[DonDiego]

Originally Posted by CubeSalt

Gus is the corruptor of sc2... he also cancelled the flight of all members of team cubes from the province of philippines (cebu) whos qualify from the tournament IPL ... this guy is racist and scumbag... he's taking advantage of esports for his own interest... this guy must be stop and be cast out from the community of esports... damn you u giving bad image of the philippine esports gaming industry...

Agreed. He deserves the scumbag hat! http://memegenerator.net/instance/11254937

[yongming]

Originally Posted by CubeSalt

Gus is the corruptor of sc2... he also cancelled the flight of all members of team cubes from the province of philippines (cebu) whos qualify from the tournament IPL ... this guy is racist and scumbag... he's taking advantage of esports for his own interest... this guy must be stop and be cast out from the community of esports... damn you u giving bad image of the philippine esports gaming industry...

this is huge. care to clarify.

[Gen_Syntax]

Originally Posted by CubeSalt

Gus is the corruptor of sc2... he also cancelled the flight of all members of team cubes from the province of philippines (cebu) whos qualify from the tournament IPL ... this guy is racist and scumbag... he's taking advantage of esports for his own interest... this guy must be stop and be cast out from the community of esports... damn you u giving bad image of the philippine esports gaming industry...

Bai, You need to post more of this...damn, this makes me upset...

[neon]

I really wish there was some legitimate ethical and logical reasoning as how it went down like this, even the lies and deceit.

I just know there won't be.

[WilliamNikhe]

Sigh...

Why AZK, WHHHY?

And our name got dragged into this to boot. FUUU.

Let's hope the other groups can counterbalance this in the future. Mski, KTS please. D:

Kinda worried for Gus though, he's getting so much hate from everywhere. Not that I'm surprised though.

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nirvAnA:

[Exilemic]

i think he gave yjy's slot to AZKziek coz he's his teammate.

[ToR.Arnor]

Originally Posted by Exilemic

i think he gave yjy's slot to AZKziek coz he's his teammate.

nah Ziek was going to this before the Australian Qualfiiers were even announced

[FaDeBadger]

Originally Posted by Exilemic

i think he gave yjy's slot to AZKziek coz he's his teammate.

No, Ziek's spot was known ages before the qualifiers were finished. YYJ's spot was given to AZKSickness.

[|Erasmus|]

Well, IGN basically backing up Yoon with them saying they handed out all the money that was required for the event to run (and an extra player NEXSickness being flown in to compete instead of Yoon... how is that possible when you couldn't find any money for Yoon? )

So yeah, AZK = dicks is what I'm getting from this.

And Dox did a good job with the qualifier... even signing contracts to try and hold AZK to this deal. I really hope there is some legal grounds for this to come back to bite them for breaking that contract.

Since it's clear that IGN won't partner with AZK again after removing their streaming privileges and the like, Dox, you should definitely (if they are serious about trying to get foreign, possibly SEA, players to their events) try and get them to agree to invite the winner of your ACL finals to future IPL events

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nirvAnA:

great idea, dox should have just held it in the first place! :)

[DonDiego]

I think they obviously wanted a ridiculous amount of AZK players to increase the chance of winning the tournament money...

People like that should just NOT BE PART OF E-SPORTS.

[|Erasmus|]

Originally Posted by DonDiego

I think they obviously wanted a ridiculous amount of AZK players to increase the chance of winning the tournament money...

People like that should just NOT BE PART OF E-SPORTS.

Also a lot of AZK players cause it's in the phillipines, they are based in the phillipines, and if you don't receive a paid invite, you would need to win to redeem your flight/accom/etc costs for attending the event.

Most SEA teams are not going to spend such a big chunk of their travel money on this event since they're unlikely to get a return from it.

[JordsKeen]

Plain silly in my opinion. But props to you man for not going overboard. Your next chance will come, your just that good bro ^_^

[ProLagger]

Just to clarify, I hope this only affects Team AZK and not Philippines in general. Thanks

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MooZfY:

Yup only to TEAM AZK not Philippines :P

[Nemo]

Originally Posted by ProLagger

Just to clarify, I hope this only affects Team AZK and not Philippines in general. Thanks

Why would it ? Generalizing a bad behavior of some guys to all member of a country would have absolutely no sense. It does even not generalize to all AZK members as Yooun has told himself some of them directly helped him :

I would like to emphasise that the actual clan AZK consist of wonderful people; it was with the training of many of the Koreans involved in this clan (which are involved in clan lof in kr) that I was successful in qualifying to this tournament.

First and foremost, there has been many people that know Gus personally, and others that are directly involved with AZK that I have been speaking to. I would like to give my sincere thanks for your genuine help in working with me to convince Gus to obtain his part of the contract; I will not forget this. I will be keeping these friends anonymous as I believe I do not have a right to meddle in their relationship with Gus.

Youn, don't be too dis-hearted, your talent will have other and better opportunities.

[Benji]

By biggest worry is how far this will set back the SEA scene. From what I can see, the rest of the world will simply see this as what SEA is like, where we know is far from the truth (only really Rossi, Jabito and Enderr are representative of us, and AZK have almost zero community interaction).

It's a very disappointing day to be honest. I'm pretty sure IGN will not support future AZK events, and I don't see a reason why they would pursue hosting or supporting another event here when they can look at Europe and the success they are having there. From what I can tell, they only signed with AZK because the PPSL was already planned, and it didn't take as much effort to support it, however if they are going to build something from the ground up, I'm not sure they will look at doing it here.

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dippa:

exactly. this could be like the CXG for sc2 in SEA.

[DonDiego]

Someone on reggedit suggested Gus should have the scumbag hat. What do you guys think?

A friend made this meme, is kinda funny lol http://memegenerator.net/instance/11254937

[PiG]

Just gunna repost what I put on the IGN announcement article on TL:

As a player from SEA who's heavily invested in the community I can say that team AZK and the PPSL looked dodgy from the start. These guys have a pretty poor reputation due to certain members being trolls etc. They even put all these average players into the tournament whom aren't even of a competitive level for some of the smaller weekly tourneys in SEA. The only time I've seen them make a noteworthy performance was in a clan-match with Xeria Gaming where they won 4-1 with a lineup of players who didn't speak english, on guest accounts on supposedly their own server, and no1 had ever heard of any of them. It turned out they were ''Koreans living in the Phillipines and active members of AZK" but I never saw any of them again so my doubts about this team kept growing...

I also wondered how the hell any organiser in SEA would get enough money to produce the event properly, fly so many players there and schedule it accurately. There isn't that much sponsorship in SEA as its eSPORTS is just starting to pick up down here so I was always shocked to hear such grand plans. Now I find out IPL/IGN were providing monetary support and the event was still so badly organised really makes the organisers look quite silly.


Hats off to IPL/IGN for accepting responsibility for having trusted these guys to put on a good event. As the scene here is quite small I can completely understand AZK mixed reputation being completely unknown.

[DonDiego]

Yeah Yoon is being quite professional It's not him doing the memes.

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|Erasmus|:

Yoon is trying to be professional about this, not start a flame war and look like a spoilt brat not getting his ticket... :(