And this is why i don't play on ESEA, the service and the website look so shitty compared to other eSports based websites.

didnt this happen months ago?? i remember hearing about a gaming company doing this a while back.. shameful

Moscou 5 aka M5?

There are a lot of things fucked up in esports... but it's improving fairly rapidly.
The thing is that the money structure in most organisation is messed up.

As the scenes mature though I'm sure that normal market forces will take over and that the structures will start to make sense.

the actual settlement was $300k, it would have been 1mil if they contested and lost and will shoot up to $1mil if they do anything bad in the future

im a good friend with their new ac admin in hire who's under nda so he can't tell me internal shit. but the sentiment I get is that it is that lpkane doesn't have the coding chops to possibly have been involved. this all fits in with the story that jaguar (the employee they axed) did it behind everyones back

ur tl;dr is that esea is scummy but not that scummy

he can't tell me internal shit. but the sentiment I get is that

smooth

it's not a secret that lpkane is a webdev. but most people don't know the difference.