[AlopexToT]

LOL stephano gets banned then goes to korea to train for a month, why does it sound not like a punishment to me?

[ikki]

Originally Posted by AlopexToT

LOL stephano gets banned then goes to korea to train for a month, why does it sound not like a punishment to me?

EG @ Stephano: "Stephano you fucked up therefore we are punishing you by sending you to the coolest place on earth"

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FsDronesInJail:

lol

[TABjornbrandr]

Originally Posted by AlopexToT

LOL stephano gets banned then goes to korea to train for a month, why does it sound not like a punishment to me?

Because EG don't want to punish their players. They have to in order to save face.
The best thing to do as a team is to make the most use of a month without tournaments.
EG wants Stephano to do well, they don't want to be hindering a player from their team - complaints to sponsors are hard for a team to ignore.

[Champi]

EG did the right thing. but the fact that they had to do it stems from the fact that dumb fcukheads think that they're legitimising esports by emailing sponsors and telling them to punish those they sponsor in hopes that their punishment will help them clean up their act.

the chances of kingston actually finding out about this little joke woulda been pretty small if drama phag's didnt email them.

half the people who emailed them are potentially just anti-fans of stephano and wanted to see him crippled rather than legitimately believeing he molested a teen =/

[Demosthenes]

Poor taste. Very poor taste.

Some progamers don't seem to understand that their 9-5 life is on public display. There are so many of these stories now a days.
When you're a pro gamer the people you play with are not just your friends they are you're colleges. Treat them like colleges first because the boss (ie the audience) is always watching.

Or the simpler route is don't joke about underage sex?

[Nemo]

They are professional, they get huge salary for representing a brand a giving exposure and good publicity to this brand. The price is having to take care of what you say more often that every one. They know they are scrutinized and he had to be more careful.

[justice]

Gets in trouble for joking about abusing a 14 year old.

Gets abused by 14 year olds.

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FsDronesInJail:

lol

[syfChadMann]

Oh.. Stephano isn't going to be able to defend his ESWC title because of this?

Thats sad to see - Petraeus was looking forward to seeing him play..

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	ROOTPetraeus:	sadface :(
	nirvAnA:	that makes the ban huge actaully :(

[iVnschmuttt]

IMO EG would have been fighting to keep him on the team, the sponsors would have taken this pretty seriously.

Whilst it isn't the worst thing in the world, and I hate people who email sponsors, normal people don't joke about ******* 14 year olds wtf? Progamers need to realise they are being seen as a role model now and need to act accordingly.

[NvRossi]

Originally Posted by fray`ChadMann

Oh.. Stephano isn't going to be able to defend his ESWC title because of this?

Thats sad to see - Petraeus was looking forward to seeing him play..

it says 'for the month of october' so i believe he will still attend ESWC, theres so much cash on the line i highly doubt he wouldnt attend!

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nirvAnA:

yea makes sense!

[syfChadMann]

Watching Stephano stream...
Playlist - Sweet Child of Mine.

Ironically awkward.. as you can imagine - alot of trolling in chat.. >.<

[syfChadMann]

Probably the most well thought out and intelligent view on this whole issue. here
Warning, not for the sensitive, or brainwashed Reddit troll.
Written by the amazing Sunset.

EDIT: just noticed the double post - my bad.. email my sponsors.

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	TCPLemminks:	To the people emailing his sponsors; They're convinently located in his signature
	|Erasmus|:	^^ good catch... now I can killl esports with even less effort on my part.

[ToRSoul]

Good to see they're not afraid to suspend their best player because of his actions. Well done by EG.

[Unstable]

Originally Posted by fray`ChadMann

Probably the most well thought out and intelligent view on this whole issue. here
Warning, not for the sensitive, or brainwashed Reddit troll.
Written by the amazing Sunset.

EDIT: just noticed the double post - my bad.. email my sponsors.

It was very refreshing reading something like that compared to the dribble I encounter on a daily basis. I agree with everything except the underlying issue of why this email sponsor stuff has happened in the first place. In a regulated world of pro sports teams act first in fear of even heavier fines from regulators, but e-sports is not regulated and likely never will be.

There were countless examples of people doing stupid shit and the teams not doing anything about it because at the time they needed more exposure, and any press is good press right? no, absolutely not. So you had this section of the demographic getting very visibly irritated about the lack of professionalism, and over time this has been warped into this new "well we cant trust the teams to do it we need to force them via sponsors now"

There is no getting rid of these types of people because they exist everywhere, but this in my opinion is a good thing overall, WTF why? because it forces teams to be more vigilant in the first place because of the threat of what could happen if people did email the sponsors.

So overall while we might be in this stupid middle ground now but there is light at the end of the tunnel.

[Demosthenes]

Originally Posted by fray`ChadMann

Probably the most well thought out and intelligent view on this whole issue. here
Warning, not for the sensitive, or brainwashed Reddit troll.
Written by the amazing Sunset.

EDIT: just noticed the double post - my bad.. email my sponsors.

This...blog...is amazing... and is typographically pretty! (this is an important issue to me...)

[SFTAElessar]

Silly Stephano :PP serves him right

[FS.Kezz]

Originally Posted by fray`ChadMann

Probably the most well thought out and intelligent view on this whole issue. here
Warning, not for the sensitive, or brainwashed Reddit troll.
Written by the amazing Sunset.

EDIT: just noticed the double post - my bad.. email my sponsors.

I was about to post this when I saw your post, because it is a great take on the whole matter and written in a kind of 'no bullshit, just truths' way.

[Cyanide]

Originally Posted by TheYoungOne

did u see what he wrote? if u were my age u would understand! he is talking like that to kids my age!! its disgusting! u have a look at what he ACTUALLY wrote, there was a screen shot of the real thing

I'm sure the homosexual community would be offended by you using the word "gay" as an offensive term to describe Diablo 3.

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asdfSchnitzel:

^

[Antel0pe]

Originally Posted by TheYoungOne

did u see what he wrote? if u were my age u would understand! he is talking like that to kids my age!! its disgusting! u have a look at what he ACTUALLY wrote, there was a screen shot of the real thing

funny thing is, i'm younger than you, and i didn't feel offended at all. lol.
welcome to the 21st century man,

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	asdfSchnitzel:	im nearly as young as you and im not offended either, sc2sea chat is worse ;)
	ROOTPetraeus:	more like rogue is worse
	SFTAElessar:	Probably coz u don't know any girls ur age, and i don't feel offended, i just think it is disgusting
	NOM:	^neither do you mate

[syfSoundwave]

Originally Posted by TheYoungOne

oh ok very funny, i remove ok!

lemminks: ur brain probably doesn't understand that i wasn't referring to myself as a girl but girls my age i know and if he did what he did to my friends i would hate him forever but i still hate him coz its principle u moron

...You do realize he didn't do it, right? He was making a private joke to his friend. If he actually DID do it not one person would be defending him. -_-

Also, show Lemminks some respect. He's done far more for this community than you could ever.

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SFTAElessar:

we shall see about what that community part my friend :D