akaface · @akafacehots
6th May 2018 from TwitLonger
"The Juice" A more detailed explanation.
I was tired and didn't feel like going into more detail and that last twitlonger was hard to understand and just gave people the wrong impression on what went down but since people are spamming Udalls stream and i'm getting my dms spammed trying to get "the juice" i'll just get it out of the way and elaborate and give you my side.
So initially I was approached to come into ts by a member of the team and he informed me that I was removed and that he was afraid of losing his job and of having to go back to school which sorta put onto Udall. He wanted to retire and own the spot so that he could either sell it or just hold onto it and removing me makes him the only candidate left. I was told that they were planning on making 3 roleswaps and taking two players from another team(which imo wasn't just a bad move for them but a bad move for those two players considering they were on a really strong team that was more than capable of qualifying without these monster risks and now they are probably out of a team) I wasn't directly given a reason however I gave my reasoning as to why I thought Udall removed me and it wasn't denied and was the most reasonable reason given the drama surrounding our org mixed with who would get ownership of the spot.
Roughly the sametime/shortly after talking to to this player.. I received a dm from Udall stating the opposite putting the blame on the other person and that we were bros for life and that he's doing what he thinks will give him the best shot at making it to Blizzcon and that the person I just talked too didn't want to play with us anymore and that player orchestrated it all, talked with those players from that other team and got them to come over and he simply agreed to it. (Which I didn't believe at the time)
After this I received an email from our owner who owns the roster that he'd like to setup a meeting with the players with who he'd like to give the spot too as he wanted to exit the scene however he was being bombarded with threats and harassment by multiple people along with everyone going insane over trying to rush him into giving ownership of the spot to one of them. I told him about everything and he decided to give ownership to myself and Fury if a 50/50 ownership is allowed otherwise it will go to Fury which i'm ok with as Fury is a fair person and the only other person on the team who I felt actually cared about the team and has the right values.
Followed by this I made that last twitlonger
Afterwards, I was approached by that original person who started backtracking everything that was said in ts and was now saying it wasn't Udalls fault at all and that what I said wasn't the case.
Overall idk it doesn't matter at this point who did what or why for what reason.. the point is Fury & I were given the spot from our owner which is what this rule was put in place for and that's to prevent things like this from happening. Regardless this was a really frustrating season because people didn't try that hard or have the drive to want to improve and it became a struggle to even get people to show up on time for scrims & matches and to not afk during draft like very simple things.. it was impossible for us to do vod review and eventually I canceled it because people would either just hl instead, wouldn't show up, just wouldn't pay attention or just be tilted. The majority of the team would rather focus only on themselves compared to improving the team as a whole and that's not a mentality that I feel works in this game it's important to improve yourself as a player but it's equally important if not more to be improving the team as a whole. For just one phase it'd be nice to have a team that sticks around similar to the old Murlocs roster, one that's motivated and wants to improve without all this backstabbing taking place and wanting to make unnecessary changes.
I have no hard feelings with any of them so don't spam Udall or anyone else. Everyone has a different side of the story. I know that they aren't bad people and i'v been on a team with Udall for about 3 years straight. I was on Kappa Wolves with Biggie for over a year, and was on a team with Bkid 3 different times. Over time people change.. and those people are trying to figure out who they are. Goals change with them and people would rather be a personality, or a caster or do something else with their lives and the goal is no longer about improving or doing your best every week in hgc but more of used as a tool to stay relevant or more relevant and to help improve your stream.
This is esports though cut or be cut mentality has always been around and sometimes it's more important to people to get a "big name" even though the players they wanted to get weren't really that big. This just happens to be one of those scenarios where that mentality backfired. That's all I'v got to say.