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This drama is going to be delicious.

I was going to call it an early night (10:01PM at tiime of writing) but now I'm opening a 2nd bottle of claret and I have chicken wings a plenty

Come on Maggots its a Party.

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Only read the sparks part, it sounds just like another team making up excuses for losing?

Their mish mash in team squad is pretty much a decent excuse.

Drama!!! :D

Wait, what? Sparks scammed?

On the odd occasion I would tune into the stream and watch him play. Then he would watch some MD games which resulted in the little drama with him and flair.
So I asked sparks a few questions about qcon and he said he was going to go.

"When you at quakecon will you punch flair?"
"I will go quakecon but I'm not that kind of guy to hit someone"
... Or something like that.

Can't wait for this interview.
Thought sparks was a genuine nice guy.

Anybody can find VODs of him talking about quakecon?


Oh, and I want my money back

[quote= cl0ck: And he can’t go anymore… He was boasting about how he is his own boss, and he owns his IT company…[/quote]

he spread this kind of BS at quakecons before too. he said he worked for himself with online marketing or something, it was kind of vague and it was eCommerce related which is boring. i guarantee you he doesn't own his own IT company, if he does he's the only one working at it.

then I find out he won a 'small' lottery, around 100K. he talked about it during the meeting the tourney players have before the last day, where if you stand a chance of winning money, you sign some paperwork so everything is done if you do win anything

HILARIOUS that he had the flight for free, they all knew and they had to bit their tongue about it, and of course sparks blows up about it when he's questioned

what an awful canadian. it figures the money goes towards his wedding with his bimbo looking fiance.

what a shame I talked to that dude for a while and he was just a giant phony the entire time.

Interesting.

There is also typo in clock section
"past 6 years and it not *panning* out"

Hmmm, I don't see a typo in there. It's the present continuous of to pan out. Or am I missing something?

don't feed the real cmss memento_mori

never feed the real cmss

Quick survey:

On a scale of 1-10, how afraid is Dahang of Cypher? :D

Over 9000

You mean the cypher that got teabagged by Dahang?

I'd say not so much.

It went from wanting (and knowing we could) win the Tri-Masters to making sure BREAK didn't, and making sure they wouldn't walk away with any prize winnings either

lol

wowie thats some drama going on never expected this to happen in this small quake community xd

CSI: MM

Memento_mori always gets his man!

Sparks scammed Everyone

This makes me want to play again...

Zero4 "ok he hasn't not bought *is* stuff yet’


Zero4 "I mean there are a lot of *thigs*"


Zero4 "hadn’t booked a *ticked* and"

Zero4 "He had *with* brought up" - grammar



God I love quake drama and i respect found em for being so open about the topic

And Sparks just basically exploited on him (last page)

Sorry about the typos, they are my bad.

Wonder what whaz would say on public about leaving...

Lol .... alot of this is a joke. They basically just repeat the same thing over and over. Theres always two sides to every story but this still makes them look like pricks. I've been on a team in the past (q3 days) with z4 and he has a very strong personality and I know cl0ck does too and frankly they both earned that right being two of the most successful quake players ever. Most of the community knows this. z4 calls the shots for his teams.

I was watching a lot of the pre-QCON streams from sparks, br1ck, fear and psygib. Not sure what went down off stream (they sometimes would ask it to be muted) but it was a lot of bitching and pointing the finger in a very passive aggressive way at both br1ck and than sparks with rapha trying to be the mediator. Everytime either sparks or br1ck would suggest something it was quickly shot down.

As for the whole donations scandal. I was subbed and donated to sparks 3-4times was for about $150-200 in all. I don't even like sparks never have gotten along with him going back to 2003 when he "paid to join our ra3 clan" and was later kicked (not by me) but blamed me and called us cheaters ect. He's always been a bit of a weird guy. Anyways I donated becuase I liked the content he was streaming and he was giving up his own time in doing so. I think the first donation was for the gaming chair which he got and the others were for a plane ticket. Frankly I don't care what he put the money towards. I was donating for the content which he was showing he could've used the money for drugs & whores for all I care. It's not like he was soliciting donations on ESR and providing nothing in return if that was the case I would have been pissed off. Theres also charge back costs when returning donations.

From the streams I saw it was also clear cl0ck and z4 were pissed off and embarrassed they were getting smashed by BREAK every game and that it was being streamed. They were also jealous of the attention, community support aswell as the money he was getting from streaming.

The part about the email is sad. It makes no sense at all. It was written in a very passive aggressive way. So he was sick .... you have his phone txt him maybe over having a conference call on Skype/mumble probably a much better option than email.

So f-FeM/Next? kick two players and when a player leaves them they have a fit. While I don't understand why BREAK would kick the best CTFer and one of the best team players around for whaz who while is fun to watch and dynamic on offense isn't a great team player.

Also dividing the community more by refusing to scim the best NA team (BREAK) so they could practice was pretty low.

BREAK stole Whaz from Raphas team... Ur an idiot...

How does one "steal" someone? .....was he kidnapped and held against his well? No, Gavin made the choice to go to the better team which had a better shot at winning. He was only with f-eM for a week.

The f-eM being sore about losing whaz and refusing to scrim against BREAK becuase of it trying to deliberately sabotage any chance that BREAK had at winning was a pretty scumbag thing to do. NA had two teams that were clearly heads and shoulders above the rest of the NA teams (you're talking about a community that only has 16-20players). So they basicly were babies about it knowing they had no shot (they were right, placing 8th) and didn't want BREAK to place well either.

So whaz was a dickbag for teamhopping, in return f-eM decided not to scrim and give them even more of what they want.

Teamhopping is the real problem here, not f-eM focusing on other goals.

Gavin has always been a huge clan whore going from team to team and z4/cl0ck even said they knew in the past he has been "non-committal" and has backed out of teams. He was on the team for a week not a month or more like sparks had been or 3weeks like br1ck. So to summarize for those with reading comprehension problems ....

f-eM is ok with kicking/replacing players on their team for what they deem as better replacements but when a player does it to them its a dick move seems a bit hypocritical don't you think?

They had reasons.

They had reasons as they thought replacing br1ck with sparks made them better and replacing sparks with whaz made them better. It was about winning. Gavin made the choice and the right one that BREAK had a better shot at winning.

They were winning with Whaz, what the fuck are you talking about?

You inbreed. Don't comment on things you know nothing of. f-eM won a few scrims vs BREAK when id_ wasn't playing who is arguably their best player and the games were close.

A full strength BREAK(id_, DaHang, viju, kgb) was better than f-eM even with whaz.

I will trust the interview not the inbred redneck from across the street.

I donated some to Sparks. I wanted Rapha's team to be called Respect the Paco moreso than everything, but that's not the point.

The point is: I did not get my money back when he did not go and he said he would give money back. And that goes toward the shady attitude Sparks had.

This rumor about the ticket was going around for the last month... I heard it from Psygib and Flair:
Now i wonder why did Rapha, Cl0ck and Zero4 kept the info for themselves in april instead of going more public with it? Makes no sense to me at all. Probably they tought it was none of their business? Or really were never in that situation before and did not know what to do? Did they think they were 100% sure? Did they just not care?
Hard to blame them too much, i know by experience that when something like that is happening around you it throws you off.
It was still so fuckin retarded to keep the info for themselves this long.

Tomorrow i'll read the rest of the interview.. I hoped Rapha would turn into a bad guy but it doesn't look like so by the tone of this interview lulz

he did swear once

So basically all racially motivated as we all knew. :)

All kidding aside that's messed up they did that to Viju and then poached Whaz. I wonder what Break's side of the story is.

dam canadians

thanks memento for bringing this up.

respect the drama

"my fellow audio recorder at hand"
Any reason for you not to share the recording?

Everything said here is 100% truth, so i respect that. Well at least the part that evolves me, the rest i didn't read.

>evolves

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See the pun? haw haw haw

BUTTTTT BBBBBBBRRIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKK

Big up.

I didnt read shit

Even if none of this drama had happened and Break and FeM had turned out their best teams with months of good practice and scrims between them... MD would still have swaggered, John Wayne - like, into Texas and owned and branded their backsides :D

And all this, with Tox playing on 125 hz mouse :-o

presumably he oc'ed it to 500hz, no?

He couldn't do it, because the pcs were running windows 10 instead of windows 7!

Apparently Rapha didn't suffer from it because he always plays on 125 hz wmo (?!), and Cypher suffered only partially because a month before the tournament his wmo died and he had to switch to the only mice he had around, a razer salmosa.

Cheap ass pros.

The PCs were running windows 7 and everyone had their 500hz. Stop spreading nonsense. ;)

Yea all the PC's were on windows 7. everyone was able to OC their wmo's as needed. and cypher was using the abyssus 2014. derp.

Finally we've found why he lost)

was cypher not an a wmo? srsly? :(

Good to know, not my fault really, i read about the windows 10 thing right here on esr from someone else whose name i don't remember.

Now this was a good read, if only there was more drama around quake.

The fact that at the end they only pursued duel victory and wanted EU teams to take TDM/CTF shows how messed up the months prior to quakecon were.

You know what would be even more rad, to see what BREAK has to say about all of this :)

Dayum, the sparks part was the most interesting for sure. I feel bad for supporting him throughout all this drama now.

Thanks for the interview!

Lol @ cl0ck acting all "high integrity" while calling sparks an abandoned bird..

Really nice read though!

Wow memento_mori, complete lack of class with the quote you pick for your "teaser".

it made me read the whole thing. I think as a teaser it did a wonderful job

It sure did a wonderful job on the expense of slandering someone

MM is not a journalist and shouldn't act like one (given that many real journalist would have done the same). It's not his fault cl0ck put it like Sparks scammed twitch the company and such.. That was the most juicy part of the interview.

He's not a journalist so any goes? Use your common sense.

my common sense says he has a job, a wife\gf to bang, a social life and yet he took the time to do this and keep it as raw and as accessible as possible without giving too much of his POV because he probably has better things to do than fact checking this skyhigh totem pole of shit. Any doesn't go, but this does.

You really don't think "sparks scamming twitch and everyone" is uncalled for?

Probably. But it's on Cl0ck, not MM

How is it on cl0ck to decide which part gets cherry picked to showcase sparks in the worst possible light?

because he starts that paragraph with "so the moral of the story is sparks and he has scammed everybody" ? lol

"Page 3: Sparks and the Twitch Scam"

" about Sparks:
cl0ck: So I guess the moral (no pun intended) of this interview is Sparks. Sparks scammed everyone. He scammed twitch, he scammed everyone who donated to him. He blatantly lied, about taking donations for a flight he very well knew that he was not going to pay for. "

Which we later found out wasn't entirely true, so posting this on the frontpage and present it as a fact could be wrongfully interpreted, especially for someone who happens to Google up his name.

Anyway I'm talking about this with sparks/memento, we'll see where it takes us.

yes. And in the end it just jeopardized cl0ck's position.

I'm all for correcting it afterwards (now) to something accurate, but how to fault MM: fact checking is not his job nor something he is supposed to do.

btw qwih you were wrong.
Just saying.

I picked that part genuinely thinking it was the most important. It's always a bit shady to extract sentences out of context, but here you find the whole text later.

As for slandering Sparks' name, my thinking was there's little difference in putting stuff at page 3 or page 1. f-em made the interview to say those things, and this is the piece of news. I can draw confetti around it, but the hammer will still hit.

The part I'm mostly bothered now, is that I did not interview Sparks about this. He had stream time on his channel, but it's not the same thing as a front page article, I guess, and fairness says he should have one.

You're an idiot.

What would have been an appropriate teaser?

PM :)

why are you involve?

I am not involved in this besides the interview itself. I'm possibly more confused than everyone else, especially after reading Sparks' reply. I can say Found Em believed every single word they said.

I like what Linchpin wrote, and I think there's a lot of truth in it.

As for why I did the interview, it's pretty simple. I was there, and Found Em wanted to do this on stream. The production said no way they would get this drama on air, so I said to Rapha I could do the interview and we would post it as text.

memento_mori works for Disney, what can you expect?

lol

To answer your question on whether I am dense or not:

Probably I am, because I still don't get what you're seeing as a problem, and I don't like to jump to conclusions.

Just to exemplify:

- I could guess you are saying to not have a teaser at all, to avoid putting stuff on the main page, to which I would reply that for an article over 6 pages, a bit of tease helps getting people motivated to read it. Also, what is the harm of a teaser, when you have a whole interview about it just a few click away?

- I could guess the problem is the two topics I picked (Sparks and Break), which I would not understand either: They are the most controversial topics in the interview, one of them explicitly mentioned as the point of the interview by f-em.

- I could guess the problem is that that quote is disrespectful to Sparks. But then again, I either do not publish this interview at all to avoid the risk of slandering an innocent, or I do publish it, and at that point it does not make much different what I put on the teaser, because anyone reading the interview will get to those claims.

Hence my question. What would you have considered fair? No teaser? Other teaser topic? Other quotes? Moderated tones/censorship on what f-em said?

Speak up, and I'll listen, but don't make me play the guess game.

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Ok, this is a critique I can understand and accept. You make many good points.

I think one part I've failed was to present this article how I imagined it:

"This is f-em telling their story", with no memento in it, besides being the messenger and asking some questions. This article would have been put together to a number of threads, and vods, from the past, and possibly from the future, and would help getting some understanding on the whole mess. It was never meant to be put in isolation against justice, but just one extra angle to look at the matter. Given you are not the only one complaining, I obviously did a poor job about it, and some of the edits I made this morning were related to improving on this.

Of course this is less valuable then someone going around and seeking the truth about the subject, interviewing all sides, checking facts etc, and then presenting a result once sure of the verdict. I think this happens mostly in courts, and at times in high quality journalism. I agree it would be fantastic that somebody would take time to do that, but I did not. What I did, which I thought was still valuable, was a basic interview with one side saying what they think. To me this is acceptable, granted that the other side has a chance to reply afterwards.

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Well, where to begin.

Firstly, to correct some of the very wild accusations and quite frankly slander with my name.

I did receive twitch donations, absolutely. However, what cl0ck failed to get right about the donation portion of the article is a fair amount. Firstly, the amount was never $1200.00 and going back through my VODs would prove this. Secondly, when I first started my donation ticker, it was from a community ask. I never once said to myself, I’m going to start streaming on twitch to make money and scam people. Again, if cl0ck had of watched my VODs, or anyone from the Found eM team for that matter, they would have seen that people started asking me for a link to donate to my stream, nothing for QuakeCon.

To expand on this topic even further, I then at my own will decided that yes, I want to go to QuakeCon, so why not give people the option to donate to that, instead of donating for content purposes. At that point I changed my donation ticker to say QuakeCon Goal, and set it to $1000.00.

At no point during any of my streams did I beg for money, or demand money from anyone. In fact, most people donated and told me to use the money for my stream IF I didn’t go to QuakeCon.
Quite a few people have asked me what I would do with the money if I don’t go to QuakeCon. Rapha did indeed ask this, but not in the concerned manner of which one would expend. It was more so in a passive-aggressive nature, an attack if you will. Which is why I came back on the defense.

Regardless, to address this publicly, which to note, I already have addressed on my stream multiple times. If people would like a refund of their donation, I am more than willing to provide that to them. I am not a charity, I do not need to collect money for my wedding, which was absolutely amazing. I pay for everything I own (minus my office chair) out of my own money. I stream video games on twitch for fun, not for money.

One point that wasn’t really addressed during the article very clear is that at one point during my time with Found eM, cl0ck came up with the idea to collect twitch donations for a chance to name our team, that was 100% an idea from cl0ck, to which I agreed. I found it very odd that cl0ck would want anything for a chance to name our team, seeing that his,zero4, and rapha’s ticket is already paid for..

Anyways, moving on..

The plane ticket and buddy pass conversation between cl0ck and myself did happen. Absolutely. However, given the vague amount of knowledge with how buddy passes work in Canada, I’m surprised this was even brought up. To clarify, I said to cl0ck that I was going to attempt to get a buddy pass from my sister for my flight, HOWEVER, that might not be possible given that I would be flying stand by, and wouldn’t want to miss QuakeCon because my flight was bumped.

Now, as my last name is Sparks, and so is my Sisters, to keep her out of any discussion on here, I will keep the airline she works for anonymous. What I can tell you, is if you do your research, a buddy pass does not save you much money at all when you fly a partner airline, which I would have to fly considering the airline that she works for is flights within Canada. It does allow you to check a free bag though, so I guess that counts towards something..

Keep in mind while you read this that a ticket from Nova Scotia Canada, to Dallas TX will run you around $1300.00 so I would be paying out of pocket, buddy pass or not.
So, during the article there were talks about what I do for a living. While I feel this part of the article is completely bogus, and quite frankly uncalled for as it’s in there just for the “dig”. I work in IT, I have said this many, many times on stream, in fact, ZorakWar and myself had a conversation about it during one of his streams (defrag I believe). I don’t hide what I do, I’m on facebook… In pictures with my co-workers.. To me, this is just another way to challenge my integrity.

What I do find very odd about this article is the fact that my three teammates at the time had what seems to be “major concerns” regarding my “shady” twitch stream and donation ticker, however, at NO point during my time on the team were questions brought forward to me. As mentioned earlier in my article, only when I joined the team cl0ck had mentioned to ask for donations for a chance to name “our” team. Another point I would like to make is that cl0ck did donate to my twitch stream and never once asked for any money back. I ask myself, why would someone donate to someone that they believe is a scammer? I then thought to myself, maybe he didn’t think I was one at the time, but you can see from my vods, that he donated to “kick” things off for the naming our team idea. An idea that was ALL his.

Hope that clears up the twitch stream questions, or concerns about my integrity.

To finalize things up as this is writeup is getting quite large, I will continue to stream, and I will continue to provide the community with content. I’m going to shrug off this article, because quite frankly, there was not one positive thing said about me in it. In truth, I expected the people that provided the content for this article to say such wild things.

LOL

I never saw a donation ticker to name the QCON team? I saw something in the stream title to PM names for the Qcon team.

it was there!

this is like RT vs FOX

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MeMe: post this as page 7 plz

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a bit late now, as most have read it already, but should be done

It's linked in the OP, right in the teaser section.

Moral of the story :
Assumptions are the mother of all fuck ups..

Excuse me as this is just an outsiders opinion, maybe it is not entirely valid or whatever but I just thought I'd add my 2 cents.

It is very obvious assumptions were being made from both sides.. and important issues people had were not being discussed openly between everyone, like adults. Everyone being pussies and opting for a more passive non-conflict approach on both sides of the coin to issues at hand, ultimately resulted in the unfortunate outcome we see here.

I really feel sorry for everyone involved. All of this drama seems so petty, exhausting, and avoidable... But such is life..

I reckon if Rapha and crew had just brought up the donations/flight-issue with Sparks, they would have resolved it easily just talking to the guy for fucks sake. Maybe they felt Sparks wasn't that approachable or would have blown up at them if they brought it up. But I think even if he had got angry about it, they would have been able to talk it through and sort it out. It was just assumptions building on assumptions that caused this, and probably resulted in poorer team chemsitry too. They even admitted to regretting not talking about it with him. But that's it, if they had, there would have been no issues here.

I genuinely believe Sparks is being honest here and his reasons make sense. But it also makes sense how it could have easily been perceived as something completely different from Rapha&co's side if they weren't talking through it properly with Sparks..
And I think Sparks' fault was not being clear enough with his flight plans, causing only more compounding doubt from the team to Sparks' detriment.

And who knows maybe the team chemistry would have been re-ignited if the air had been cleared.. because they wouldn't be scrimming with someone their minds were doubting but rather scrimming with someone again who they trusted and respected.

And yeah its all well and good that the usual "donate" text was changed into "quakecon goal 1000$" or whatever... But donate for quakecon would encourage far more donations than usual which does come across as a bit scammy having not gone to quakecon. But taking the time to write this response and offer to genuinely give the money back to donors really does clear this doubt for me of it being intentionally done to scam people. I mean as sparks said he didnt even receive many extra donations than usual anyway.
But rather this was done without much thought as a sortof "hey lets create more hype for quakecon on the stream and give my viewers more involvement or enjoyment out of donating", makes sense, most un-sponsored regular streamers would naturally think of doing this if they were going to some big event.

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TL;DR : conversation is lubrication!

Relationship counseling on ESR... Now I've seen it all :D

so good, you must be married

to my right hand

doubt the mature conversation would have changed anything. it's more of a personality clash than anything else it seems. f-em was looking for a loophole to be done with sparks as with any other player they had and they found it without breaking any moral code that they had left in them (2 unwritten rules that they speak about), so they were not happy with sparks as a person and the way their team was doing so they were more than happy to let him go on a formality that he is not yet committed and don't possess a ticket to qcon
strategy to swap 4th player obviously didn't work out for them as they did poorly in all team modes, but hey, maybe they will learn from it for next time. this all pretty obviously gave advantage to stable European teams that practiced with each other hard, personalities aside. ego of some duelers once again ruined quiet few relationships

Yeah you're probably right, personality clashes are huge and unsolvable at times. I still feel like they could have avoided so much of the drama by dealing with it differently. This whole situation is really surprising to me. If 'Murica had solid teams from the start with no dramas I wonder how much better they could have faced off against the EU teams.

I could blame Foundem for behaving like cowards not able to speak out, I could blame sparks for not being able to communicate. Instead I want to thank all involved parties on behalf of ukn for the money and the first EU victory in CTF in over a decade.

inb4 sparks EU spy.

Send my refund to 125fps donation pool, kthx.

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Huh?

dem0n is on it

oh :D

Your team promised to make daily videos at Quakecon, in case you forgot:

we will also make daily videos to share our experience with you. Considering we don't have proper video equipment it would most likely not be more than phone camera quality but at least we'll upload them right after recording so you won't still be waiting for them a year later. :D

Disclaimer: Please note that since Spart1e is in the team the daily videos might end up being rated M.

I suppose "right after recording" should be... soon?

I'm sure glad I didn't receive a single $ from that donation pool then because I did not see any videos recorded.

Personally I think I contributed enough considering I streamed ~150hours of quake monthly for the past 6 months with 99.9% of our practise games.

same as last year.
i even donated money so my name is somewhere to be seen (on a shirt or at the end of the movie they wanted to make, cant really remember).

Yeah i'll go right ahead and admit i failed on that promise. :(

I hope you take all the hours of our practice we streamed as a little compensation for my failure. The only thing i managed to record was a t4 game of ZeRo4 vs fazz with both being drunk (ZeRo4 over the shoulder pov). I'll make that available for some extra compensation, if i get ZeRo4's consent.

I wish i could have given you a video of drunken Spart1e but tbh, i didn't even see him anymore once he started drinking.

This years real life footage is really meager why did nobody film some shit. Big up meme once again for being the heart and soul of this community and at least delivering photos and interviews.

And taking shit for it

No offense, but basically two years in a row Spart1e and Demon failed on their promises for donations?

Even though I think that all the streaming fazz did makes up for it, it is a bit sad!

I see great potentiel in a team averagers quakecon frag movie! Just saying!

Nah this one is on me tbh. It was my idea in the first place but i should have known better, i'm terrible with making videos or pictures of my trips / vacations / etc. :/

I usually only do frag videos when i win something ( hence the lack of them in recent years lol :D ). And considering how that turned out last year i'm definitely not going to promise one now.

To be fair, SPART1E has never ever promised anything like that.

Damnit I donated to dem0ns stream and told him to get a decent camera for recordings this year. I hope some spart1e party footage is out there.

But will it be morally ok if you get to choose the map for next league edition?

Don't care about that(LOL T4 T4 T4 T4 T4 T4)

"Two days later sparks notifies me that he can't go because of a promotion at work."

Didnt you say you are your own boss? :))))

freelancer maybe?

how does a freelancer get a promotion?

i dont even know what a promotion looks like in the world of IT bobs.

Executive freelancer?

Why are u inventing words m8

He owned an IT company that got bought by a larger corporation.

How is that a promotion? Wouldnt that eliminate his working hours isntead of driving them up?

step 1: be own boss
step 2: get bought by bigger company
step 3: get a raise

Well U didnt mention he was also hired. To be fair I dont know that much about business stuff

Honestly I don't have proof of that either, just what he told me

sparks hasn't taken a loss all week.

Am I the only one who donated to Sparks for the content he created and shared whilst streaming?

Well, looks like it's obvious that this forum thrives on shit being blown completely out of proportion. Well done community, well done.

this why sparks is my nigga =]

thank u for real response man

when im at work i watch u stream

this feels like when girls had arguments in my highschool. Everything is a half-said half-truth, a lot of things are assumed by the counterpart... Everything turns to shit but then, wow, it turns into nothing again and they are all friends again. For two weeks. LMAO.

Jigglywiggly was right all this time l, Rapha is a big bully.

whaz is a beast though

I get all this except I still dont understand whaz's decision to leave f-em. At the point of time he left f-em was looking much better than BREAK, so he clearly had higher chances of winning with them, with BREAK he would have at best equal chances I would think. Why would anyone burn bridges to possibly obtaining the same amount of money in the best case scenario. It seems BREAK probably got too serious about winning quakecon this year -> a very stressful practice regime -> dropping viju because he was not dedicated to same extent as other 3 -> whaz being slightly greedy.

Overall I feel North Americans kind of ruined whatsoever chances they had this time to win by a series of unfortunate events.

BREAK was scrimming without id_ some of thoes games. Obviously he's their best player and it was only a few games which f-eM had won .... yes they looked better than they had with either sparks or br1ck. BREAK move to replace viju I'll never understand, there was talk about his scheduling issues but he's mr CTF you work around it if they really wanted Gavins offense they should've dropped the kgb experiment knowing he wasn't going to perform as well @ LAN.

Team games are Diva breeding grounds.

There's so much more drama potential when it comes to team games.

1v1 rivalries aren't that intense.

Teen Queen is talking it!

fite me bro!

They could get their own show on WeTV!

Disrepute.

there's more drama potential because people play as a team and therefore always have someone to put the blame on, while in duel it's lag/mouse/monitor/letsdoitonlan/???

i could literally name you hundreds of tdm/ctf players with no diva attitude whatsoever. quite frankly, where do you think zero4 got his ego from, tdm? :D

rehepapppppp

I always wanted to know about this and who killed JFK.

I want things to be cleared out as best as possible. To be honest most things said about sparks by f-eM came as shocking news to me, and kinda made me feel weird for myself having been a big supporter to his stream (didn't donate a single buck though).

After reading sparks' reply I think things kinda fell back into place for me, I still would like to read what f-eM has to say about it.

'Sparks scammed everyone!'

NA CTF drama, directed by m night shyamalan

Stay classy 'murica.

*ordering mcdonalds* : )

these guys sound like a bunch of drama filled pussies


every one of them....

lel, murica

Video game drama is compelling stuff. Better than QuakeCon, for sure.

unclassy article memento

i think maybe none of your business

let clock speak for himself is better method

Shut up. Memento just gave them the way to express what they wanted to say. It would have come out either way.

no, because both teams do not want drama. they just want move forward and put this in passed. was private interview.

is wrong from memento to slander this sparks person in way he did.

No. Found Em wanted this interview.

A... private interview. Seriously?

I've bought a corn field and I'm not sure I'll have enough pop-corn for this.

Dahang was afraid to play Cypher but eventually beat him.

barely

Shoulda picked me

I would of picked you stephen, apple of my eye.

Come on guys, these allegations are too serious for ESR.
Can't we just blame SyncError and feed our love/hate relationship with id Software for the late Quakecon tournament announcement that clearly prevented the teams for forming and practising properly?
Let's go back to taking everything lightly and pretend it was just a misunderstanding and sparks thought the team name was FUND'EM.

Please release the.audio :)

this could be scenarius on cheap Venezuelan TV series :D

..........MARIIIIAAAAHHHH!!!!

PORQUE!!!

Yo soy mi madre

So much drama! I like it! :)

And the proof for all this is? I mean I'm not taking sides or anything, but what evidence is presented, their word? Lol

It's an interview not a court case. Br1ck confirmed part involving him was 100% true and Sparks told his side of the story which was interesting.

I'm not bashing the interview or the interviewer. I'm saying that coming out with these kind of accusations without having anything to prove em is lame from F-em. Especially since, after how they behaved towards Sparks on stream and the way they kicked him, they have every reason to lie or atleast exaggerate the alleged Sparks' lack of integrity in order to look less like assholes themselves

It's the other way around, actually. Sparks behaved bad in the team, as confirmed by streams etc., so they didn't pick him up. As it's clearly explained, there was nothing definitive between them, tickets hadn't been bought, so it's just a case of Sparks not accepting team roles and wanting to be a superstar.

The whole donation thing is shady too.

So the one with the more interest in lying, and apparently he did that a lot way before the whole quakecon ordeal, is Sparks.

So much passive-agressiveness this is Quake!

Nope. These are the side effects of typical gamer-mentalities , introverted, conflict-avoiding personalities!

I would not agree with this, they sat down talking with each other for hours at quakecon. f-EM and whaz/brick I think it was(was drunk so might be wrong)

What I'm referring to is all the drama between f-EM vs Sparks, not so much the f-EM vs brick/whaz stuff..

Gotcha!

I guess I'll take the credit for all of that, we are all grown men not children anymore. I wanted to clear the air with them in person. Which I did with rapha,clock and zero4.

However they were pissed that gaven(whaz) left their team after zero4 bought his flight. Which is understandable on their part.
But...how Gaven looked at it was. Zero4 is going to show up to play at Quakecon anyways. I agree with whaz on that, john was going to show up at Quakecon regardless. The guy had spent months leading up to Quakecon playing quake. Gaven left that team who was at the time beating break, but mostly with ringers as id wasn't there for two weeks because on paper it was the better team.

I got kicked for reasons both me and zero4 agreed on at Quakecon, i don't blame him for it, just thought it wouldn't have happened from our past stemming from other games as well.

In the end Gaven joined break souly because he thought, and probably did have the best chance winning Quakecon with that team. What they failed to factor in was how f-em would respond. I don't think they thought they would get boycotted scrims because of it.

Guess ill add this here, i kicked fear and avenged to pickup sparks and effortless two weeks before Quakecon because every night i would have to listen to constant bitching from two people, one actually being my teammate and his girlfriend. I won't put all the blame on them, as i was the one who went ahead and did it as i had replacements (sparks and effortless).
I asked sparks to commit and he said "worst case scenario is ill call in sick from work for the one day I'll have to take off." paired with I'm guessing his vacation time. I was told. Two days later sparks notifies me that he can't go because of a promotion at work. I told sparks i wished him the best and moved on. I don't hate the guy for not going.

I didn't even plan to talk to rapha, clock or zero4 because they did the same thing they claimed break did to them by poaching players (psygib) from my team. Or at least i thought, i was told by all three of them at qcon that psygib had been begging them to let him on their team for over a month, once they picked up carnage. I didn't want to believe this at first, but then it all made sense because while my team also was going through issues at least at the time. Psygib told me he was thinking about asking raphas team to join them. I told him i don't blame him, we can't practice with ping issues and all the bs that's been going on this year.
My biggest problem with psygib leaving was two days after telling me, "you know what i was thinking of joining their team, but we've been through so much team drama this year i'll just stick with you and ride it out". That added with the amount of shit psygib and his girl would get from clock and rapha when we would scrim them, made me believe he was sincere and wouldn't leave at this point. To no avail I'm at work, i come home to a steam message from carnage. "you were right, they kicked me". I respond "sorry dude, but i told you it would happen. But who did they replace you with?". This is where i find out psygib had joined f-em without even telling me. I had to find out from carnage, that my "team" was no longer a "team" and i had been burnt. GG well played Psygib and your girlfriend.

Thanks to effortless and his luck i go home with something. Big shout out to T-rex for donating $400 towards getting both me and effortless to Quakecon. And everyone else who donated, i actually put it towards getting myself and effortless to Quakecon. =) Even with getting stomped in every mod, i will say i had a blast with my team fear, avenged and effortless. Btw fear can you please "ELLLP BASEEE" -zyrinx voice

PS: FUCK THIS COMMUNITY

Yea psygib and his girlfriend are ridiculous. Arrogant as fuck, but they both look like they've been force-fed and kept in a cellar for all their life

Psygib is a generally nice guy he just goes with the flow. Melz is a attention whore and always has been. Drama follows her wherever she goes. She latches on to these quakeplayers and tries to live vicariously through them (think of thoes fat cow mothers that put their kids in beauty pageants & drance competitions) it's like that.

Yea shes a random 1300 elo whore

I am also a random 1300 elo whore, and I take offence at your comment - Kappa

You should.

> Yea shes a random 1300 elo whore

fap fap fap

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they used to

"ELLLP BASEEE" -zyrinx voice
LOLOLOLOLOLOL

You guys fucked your own community if anyone.

BUT PSYGIB AND MZ ARE NICE TO EVERYONE AND THEY ARE THE GOOD GUYS

ahaha, the drama. :D
pls, add a new thread with psygib girlfriends opinion to the interview !!

thx for the write up, br1ck

can you explain clearer what happened with Psygib and his girlfriend please. That is what confused me the most...

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DONT YOU UNDERSTAND? EVERYONE IS A CHARACTER IN THIS!

you have no idea. There can be 9 additional pages just about her.

If we're making a dress we're gonna need a fuck load more than that.

Apparently she's the louder, obnoxious US equivalent of XTINA or something

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There are so many half-truths and wholes in this text mountain of yours its actually funny. I think you,psygib,clock,rapha and zero4 need to sit down and get your story straight of why psygib joined their team. At first its psygib begged to join our team, then its they asked me to join via mumble, now its clock called psygib. I can even go back to chat logs if i cared enough to expose most of you. My convo with rapha after i found out psygib just up and left went something like this:

Br1ck: and you wonder why you get a bad rep
rapha: dude psygib said your team was broken up, effortless didn't want to go, you didn't have a 4th. Moses came to me one month ago and i told him no. I could've broken up your team at any time, but i didn't. Moses literally begged us to join and i told him no atleast three times.
br1ck: its all good, karmas a bitch

On Saturday of quakecon, i approached both z4 and rapha and we talked some, elegy invited me to dinner with them the night before, i wasn't going to go. But we seemed to say fuck it and kept it civil so i decided to go. While at dinner both clock and rapha repeatedly said "Moses literally begged us to join our team". I mean why would i make this up. According to Mzheroine via facebook: "Hi, I'm so surprised at your behaviour. Ignoring us while you chit chat with people you said you would never talk to. You're so two faced. It's good we know the true you. You're not worth it. I tried but you made it clear what's really important to you. We are good people, that's all that matters." This after countless nights talking to both psygib and mzheroine, countless nights defending her, someone who was not even on my team. Yet, i am two-faced for trying to be the bigger man and patch things up with three people i actually called friends. I mean you even said yourself that having people watch as others take abuse is whats wrong with the world. What is also wrong with the world is everyone goes around with all this unjustified hatred towards one another. So am i actually wrong for going back on my word of never talking to them because i wanted to make things right?


People get mad at break for whaz jumping ship with two - three weeks before quakecon. But psygib did it with less than two. Shit even after f-em found out that break doesn't have any shot at money at quakcon zero4, goes up to whaz and says "hey gaven have a good tournament?" and proceeds to give him the finger. Yet you have no understanding why someone in my position would be upset, seeing as he left after telling me himself in mumble "Theres no point joining a team we're beating". This with little over a week to figure shit out after booking my shit one month prior. Shit put yourself in my shoes, if i had asked raphas team to play with them again, they most likely would've said yes. They would've taken any player who was active in the community up until then. I didn't because we both had the understanding that we would figure it out TOGETHER. Clearly moses' word means absolutely nothing.

Even after we figured out our team shit and avenged and effortless were down to go, we are scrimming and since you seem to claim you want psygib's best interest. Why would you have him leave a scrim/practice to sit in a server with you just to run around. Because clearly you both knew he was going to make the decision and join their team.

I've already spent too much time on this thread, yes this whole thing is upsetting even after winning some money, and having a great time with my teammates. Yes everyone has feelings, and I'm sure you were looking out for his best interest. I did not mean to offend anyone by this. But i stand by what i said to moses in private. When you give someone your word, you stick to it.

"hey gaven have a good tournament?"


Haha zero4 xD


I'm supporting F O U N D E M ! ;D

realest dude in NA. respect

but dude pysgib titles all his streams "REALplay or REALtalk w/ MzHeroine and psygib"

"zero4, goes up to whaz and says "hey gaven have a good tournament?" and proceeds to give him the finger. "

Bwahahahahahahaa

My whole thing is... all this stuff going on at Qcon and we get these dry ass interviews on the couch with questions like "so how did you feel about winning that game?"

Why now sit Whaz down on the couch and ask him why he abandoned his team? Or just Hand MzH the mic at the beginning of the tourney and I'm sure she would have given plenty of stuff people could have responded to throughout the tourney and it would have been entertaining as hell.

Brick for president 2016

I didn't know who mzheroine was. I just thought it was psygib


Then I found out your psygibs deluded girl I had to read the whole thing again.

Nice troll.

Oh by the way wtf was that last part about being woman - holy fuck that was messed up

TL:DR ^ Wall of Text ^

Don't know why but this was really hard to read.

"We're having a TEAM breakfast tomorrow. Just the TEAM, ok?" At the point I jumped in with a smile and said you mean "You don't want me there, right."

red flags. Red flags everywhere.

someone asked him what team he was on. He told them I don't have a team right now. Even though they already agreed to form one. That was the begining of his lies.

So even though he agreed to form one, he didn't have an official team at that point.

" I was listening to Sparks stream and someone asked him what team he was on. He told them I don't have a team right now. Even though they already agreed to form one. That was the begining of his lies. He continued with this. Always trying to twist things around. When he left Psygibs team he told his stream first and put on 100s tag. He didn't even talk to Psygib or Avenged. He showed no respect. He came off as a really shady person. And even in his response to this interview. He talks about people saying, "In fact, most people donated and told me to use the money for my stream IF I didn’t go to QuakeCon." Sparks met his quakecon goal which was $1000. Then he met his $500 chair goal. And he ALSO met his headset goal. Which was more than his chair. He talks about a flight being $1300.00, but he sure made a lot more than that. Every opportunity he had to go to Quakecon he turned down. It was like he never really intended to go. When Brick kicked Avenged and Fear they did ask Sparks and Effortless. He said he had to ask his wife first. And then came back saying how he got a promotion at work and could not go... He STILL didn't say where that $1000 from quakecon donations went, his stream? Specifically to what for the stream? Did you even give Flair credit for making your splash screens for twitch? Ontop of that I think he's horrible at team games. He does what he wants and tries to talk his way out of it. Like everything else he's done. "



Another confirmation that Spark lies and is not credible

"Fear did constantly complain about issues. He had a lot of lag problems. It was just too much negativity to deal with.."

What? That doesn't sound like him at all

/s

so you are like makbeth's wife ?
(I felt bad about leaving Brick alone with a mess. Psygib had a hard time deciding for himself. I told him you need to think about YOU and do what's best for YOU. Any adult will understand it was a better choice for Psygib and it was nothing personal. He would never try to lie or hurt someone. He is a really good person.)
now hit me with a rationalisation and justification. something among the lines that greed /egocentrism is GOOD as it leads to growth of not only individual but whole society. go.
best regards, Duncan

mad wife is mad

No. Just fuck NA.

10 players and still can't get along.

Ahh..right...that's why I have you blocked :)

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NAES NAES

why is this major news? This is just "tabloid journalism" at its best :(....
I feel sorry that I even read that ... (most of it anyways)

most shocking thing for me: Rapha is swearing?!? wtf

More than anyone else there!

Kind of a dick move Memento_Mori i was not used to this from you. You could've raised the level.

Is the problem the fact I posted the interview, or how I formulated it?

I guess you could have asked sparks to tell his side before posting. By everything else seems fine, you just reported what they said, including transcript even

Yes, I agree about this.

A good move would be to link Sparks' reply into your OP.

e: Oops. It should probably be clearer though, not hidden behind a clickable element.

I put it right next to the teaser where the allegations are made.

man u did nothing wrong, all good.
the low "level" imdaniel was talking about is rather a result of what the interviewees said.

There is simply no problem. Some biased people are just mad that those things came out. They would have preferred less clarity, more secrecy.

No one in this thread said that.

like it wasn't evident

Turns out that clarity can work both ways

And typically that’s the same for Europe. You got two teams that dominate the rest.

Hehe. No. I would not have expected that ZeRo4 has no clue about the European scene.

REKT!

Your lack of english is disturbing.

whats wrong with that exactly?

*English

Its all true folks, Rapha swore on the bible and we all know Christians can't lie

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to be fair Sparks does shut off his brain while playing. You can see it in his duels, and you can see it when he plays CTF

This is a true statement. He's actually a really good offensive player when he can do his own thing but he can lose focus and interest rather easily if things aren't going his way. At the time he was in f-eM cl0ck wasn't communicating at all with his team and z4 was having ping problems and just out of shape they blamed sparks constantly for their shortcomings. They blamed him when they gave up a cap for not helping base and also for not producing any flag runs apparently it was sparks job to carry cl0ck & z4.

With Quake now rotting in the ditch it's nice to know that friendships are also going down the drain as well. Way to get the best out of the game, guys... I hope that the right conclusions will be made by the people that stirred this shit. What if this was the last QuakeCon you attended? Is this how you are going to remember it and each other? Geez...

@Memento_Mori - I also have my doubts about posting a one-sided interview. It's good that you added some of the replies from the discussion, but I really don't think that these series of unfortunate events are supposed to be discussed, or to be known by what is left of this community. From what I understand there are 8 players in the US that can play and have a chance at winning something and they hate each other to the point where they start sabotaging each other...

Thanks for the feedback.

I read all the articles and my ELO didnt go up? did i do something wrong?

http://esreality.com/post/2757487/quakecon2015-cfgs/

I can understand F'ems reasoning. Getting different responses about tickets when the tournament is approaching would make anyone panicky. F'em did ask sparks about the ticket and there's not much confrontation they could of done after that point, only accusations. And i still think it's misleading to say you need this much money for QCON even if it didn't explicitly state it is needed for flights. It seems like they had to make a choice of hoping that sparks wasn't lying and get to qcon or replace him with someone else and so they chose the latter. IMO nobody did anything wrong except whaz (assuming everyone is telling the truth), it was just an unfortunate outcome of events.

ESREALITY
Where Gaming meets Reality

Is anyone really surprised that what they got here was equally as one-sided as almost everything else we've heard regarding these dramas? Like Memento said, these guys wanted the interview. They wanted to air this into the community.

Yes, he could have chosen to not post it because it's all just them saying things, but clearly people understand that and can make up their own minds? It's exactly what it claims to be, an interview. No fact checking, just their words. Exactly what an interview should be.

The clickbait intro is funny though.

Funnyb clickbait intro would have been better.

We all agree this is Hall Of Fame material right?

Disagree. As much as I like the drama, its kinda low to highlight it even more than it needs to be.

Friendships died because of this whole thing... dont be so low to make a spectacle out of it :x

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teenqueen and memento plan this thread for drama and plusses

Then we can't talk about real friendships, now can we?

english pls

Yeah, you would be better off learning it.

Who says Quake is dead? Such passion.

what a drama...meanwhile in china:

http://plasmaoxyd.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/reissack.jpg

we have these crisis here too man.

http://www.esreality.com/post/1760567/i-dropped-a-bag-of-rice/

Whole thread/op with all involved:

Most ridiculous shit I've seen, ever.

Great post :)

Thanks for text and transcripts !

(fixed a lot of casing)

Thanks for the fixes!

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The story sounds coherent at first, but some of these arguments against Sparks feel as if you constructed them afterwards to legitimize some of your decisions. The only mistake you attribute to yourselves is about zero4 and br1ck, in which case it seems like the 'mistake' was to even get involved with br1ck in the first place. Wow.

How can you lose three players in a short period of time, without bearing any responsibility? I don't buy it.

By the way, donations for Twitch streams are nothing new. He offered a service; to allow the common folk to see and hear how a serious contender at QuakeCon prepares. How can you call that a scam? Surely though, if people want their money back because Sparks didn't attend, then he should do this.

And still after that, people try to twist things around.

If you read the interview, you understand full well why some players didn't make it to the team (two left on their own, one got kicked for more than appropriate reasons).

Also it's not like it never happens, it happens all the times, and in that thread alone you see how every other team kicked players, and did it for wrong reasons even.

But apparently the other teams can, F'em can't. Ok, shows the partiality of who thinks that way.

Regarding the twitch scamming: it's not wrong to ask money on twitch, everybody does that. The point is that Spark asked money for a very specific reason, and some (not all) of the donators donated exclusively for that specific reason, the ticket to quakecon.

After Spark bitched his way out of F'em and pulled out of Brick's team for ridicolous excuses (self promotion, wtf), he never offered once to give back the money to the people that funded him for the quakecon ticket.

It could be a single cent, doesn't matter, it shows a shady dishonest behaviour.

It's very clear to me after reading your responses in this thread that you have chose to ignore my reply, and have not watched me on stream.

I will make this clear yet again, I've offered multiple times to refund those that have donated to me, both publicly on stream, and in this thread. Yet, you continue to say that I never offered once to give the money back to those involved?

Everyone is entitled to their opinion on this matter however, I kindly ask that you read things through fully.

Also, take note that I have refunded everyone who has asked for one, including fazz who had asked that I send his $25.00 donation to 125fps, which was done this morning.

I've read your reply, and you say you're open to refund, but you speak in present terms, like you only decided to do it after that interview.

Which is only a cover up measure. You should have offered refunds right after you knew for certain you wouldn't have gone, and that was months ago.

And it's clear you decided to not go way before you talked about it on stream

lol i even heard him on stream saying it when it was unsure he was going or not.
you should start noting the facts and if you dont want to go through all of sparks' VODs (and seeing yourself if he said it or not) then you should just stop bitching around man.

I have little interest in this drama, and you can keep my meagre donation, but offering a refund is very different from just DOING it, offering a refund means the people who donated have to seek this themselves.
With good ethics it would be better to refund all donations, and wait for the people who get the notification of the refund to choose if they want to send the money back to you.

That's pretty inefficient.

For who? The donator or sparks.

For both sparks and the donators who don't want their money back.

It's not a matter of efficiency. In a case like that, you send the money back, it's more important to be clean than to nitpick.

If so many donators really donated to the stream only, then they could have easily donated again at any time, it takes no time.

Always better than keeping the money and hoping people will forget and move on.

well said

I highly suggest you go reread the interview and sparks/br1cks reply as it seems it went way over your head.


Just some key points:

br1ck/sparks/carnage were all kicked
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whaz left

sparks never begged for donations. He put in his title and his donation goal somthing about QCON and a plane ticket. He would just ask people to support the stream and the three ways you can do that is by following, donating or subscribing.

He also said anyone that wants their money back all they have to do is ask so how is that shady? There will be charge back fees for him doing it.

Many of the people complaining probably never even donated. I did and not upset about it why should you be?

Whaz left, and with terrible timing and way to do it; br1ck was picked but didn't work with the rest of the team, so having to choose which one to keep, they opted for the other one and not him;
carnage knew from the beginning he was only a temporary replacement, and had nothing against that; sparks only communicated with rapha and didn't respect roles or strategies; and he was only in trial, which is not a minor point;

On top of that, all the other teams kicked/stole players left and right, but nobody has nothing against it, apparently.

Also, nobody BEGS for donation. I've never seen any twitch streamer begging. I guess there might be some compilation on youtube, but it's not something usuall done.

When you put a specific objective for a donation, logically you'll have people donating for that objective, that wouldn't have donated otherwise. Putting an objective you don't respect is a dishonest thing to do. And the refunding should have been proposed the moment he made up his mind that he wasn't going to quakecon, not after someone exposes you.

I've offered refunds to those that have donated to me, on stream, long before this thread even came up, and long before my QuakeCon trip was cancelled.

To expose someone means that there is something to hide, I have nothing to hide. I believe that I've been transparent in this matter, and quite civil considering the comments directed towards me.

don't feed them man.

Sparks. This is all about picking sides. And I don't know who's side to go on

It was fun seeing racist winz get angry on grim dungeons.

However it's pretty lame if those claims are true about you.



And yes I want you to elaborate on the accusations with winz and flair.








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eyyy buddy, you want a pro token?!

racist winz ? wtf ?

If sparks wants to I will allow him to elaborate on what happened



Hi winz

You offered refunds, but didn't send them. Until this thread. Nice timing i guess

look up the definition of the word "offer".
please start using your brain, you start to make a fool of yourself.

yeah i guess i could have used another set of words. The concept is the same tough

whaz was only on their team a week it's not like he was months and months of practicing with them to leave a few weeks out. f-eM wanted to win and put themselves in the best position they could and rightfully so. br1ck was replaced by sparks and sparks was replaced by whaz all 3 of the which have a QCON CTF title to their name. f-eM had no problem in replacing or swapping players with what they saw as a better option(more likely to put them in a chance to win it all) but when whaz decided his best option was to join BREAK they have a problem with it .... It's very hypocritical.

Also they have a problem with DaHang poaching whaz from them but didn't have a problem when they did it to br1ck. It's the same thing.

Again about the streaming thing leading up to QCON sparks wasn't sure he was going to go (after the f-eM thing and br1cks team) he was asked multiple times in twitch chat what would happen to the donation money and he always replied that he would return it if people wanted it back or do somthing within the community with it like put some of it up as prize money for a CUP or something.

Youre a BRICK fanboy right?

"whaz was only on their team a week it's not like he was months"

Who cares how much time he was? He pleaded commitment and ended fucking them up going to the rival team. Thats really low.

Not a br1ck fanboy and really don't know him other than the odd time he plays CA unless he's the br1ck that used to run the Q3 CTF server but I'm totd it's not.

There was talks for weeks before that whaz may go he wasn't sure. As soon as he said he would the 3 NA teams wanted to pick him up. He had ran O along side of daHang las year with great results aswell as being a regular duel practice partner with him for years. f-eM was going to go regardless if whaz was on their team or not to give rapha a shot at the duel masters. During that week if you followed the games f-eM was barely beating a id_ less BREAK team. When for the month or so before they had been getting absolutely crushed. whaz saw his best bet at the money was with BREAK and he was right as they placed 2nd/3rd? and the year before DaHang had placed better than rapha in the masters taking 2nd.

"his best bet at the money was with BREAK and he was right as they placed 2nd/3rd?"

Wrong, he made 0 dollars, while being part of F'em would have made him at least, 2000 dollars. Apart from that, once you commit to one team, you stick with it. Karma is a bitch.

Yes, he made no money but his team placed 2nd (they were lucky in the matches) but they could've placed in they money just as easily due to the fucked up tournament format. As a team BREAK had a much better shot and proved it finishing 6 spots ahead of f-eM and based off last years performance DaHang placed 2nd where rapha placed 4-5th.

Don't act like you don't know the reasons they left. The reasons are what makes the difference.
Or not, because you don't seem to have a problem with Br1ck kicking two players for no reasons and taking a former banned cheater in their place. You're that dishonest.

What reason who left? The only two players that left teams were whaz and psygib the rest were kicked. Don't assume you know what the fuck you're talking about as it's pretty clear you did not watch the streams or have a grasp of what was going on in the NA community.

First off did you know that whaz, cl0ck and demex all past QCON champs have been caught hacking in the past? What effortless did was wrong but he was on the server and told people he had enabled a wallhack he wasn't hiding it. He would post in chat where the other team was on the map, it was more of a demonstration type deal and he was banned for it. Since than he's live streamed games and went to QCON twice now.

Maybe have a clue before you decide to post and make yourself look more like a moron.

You're making yourself looking like a moron. The reasons behind the changes of players are explained pretty well, and there's nothing wrong behind it.

And as already pointed out, you only seem to have a problem with F'em changing its lineup, not all the other teams doing that and worse like Break kicking a player that practiced like a madman for weeks only for them and ended up not even attending, to steal a player from another team.

You dyslexic twink. I have nothing wrong with teams trying to give them themselves their best shot at winning this is a competition with money on the line. The matter in which it was all handled is the problem. f-eM are huge hypocrites as I'll state again THEY HAD NO PROBLEM IN KICKING TWO PLAYERS FOR WHAT THEY THOUGHT WAS A BETTER PLAYER EACH TIME BUT WHEN SOMONE LEFT THEM FOR THE OBVIOUSLY BETTER TEAM THEY HAVE A FIT

This whole interview is a joke and trying to bash sparks and other players all in an effort to try and save face by acting like they were the victim in all this. It's a lot of rambling and hymns and huas. Also the email and the other ESR post cl0ck made trying to taunt sparks. They are trying to make excuses for their performance.

br1ck kicked two players but quickly took them both back as if you know anything that group of br1ck/avenged/fear & effortless are pretty tight. In all respects to them I don't blame sparks for not going besides the EU teams the cost vs reward for him was little. It's a $1,200-1400 flight from NS to DFW. It was clear after the f-eM thing he lost interest and was playing/streamming a lot less.

I'll agree that I don't understand why BREAK decided to replace viju with whaz but they didn't make a spectacle of it either.

That's the point. They didn't kick them for better players (like the other teams do) ; they kicked them because the collaboration wasn't even there.

You know this point full well, but refuse to aknowledge it because you're obviously butthurt and dishonest.

"but they didn't make a spectacle of it either."
that is unfortunate))

some explanation, drama-full or drama-free, is in order

Doesn't matter had sex.

Also worth noting the past two years effortless has won $20,000 usd. I believe this year br1ck paid his way to QCON with an agreement that if they came into the money they would spit it. So br1ck got $5k? So to summarize ...

Effortless>cypher

br1ck>z4/cl0ck/psygib/dahang/whaz/kgb/id_

I paid for Effortless's flight, which was the plan if he joined the team regardless. So he was guaranteed to get there, i got donations to help pay for it. Which i appreciated greatly, but no the whole team agreed to pool our raffle tickets, and if we won we'd split it four ways. So you are correct that i came out ahead, but it's like this now.

br1ck+effortless+fear+avenged>all of NA - rapha

"br1ck didn't work with the team" haha I'm a solo queue player apparently.

you are obviously a total retard.
just repeating what was said in the interview .. like "sparks only communicated with rapha and didn't respect roles or strategies".
did you even see one practice game yourself?

Yes i did, and Spark did indeed look out of place and more in the "ffa" mentality

f'EM act like he did it on purpose.
you act like he did as well.
why would he do that?

Are you trying to claim he wasn't himself when playing? That he was intoxicated the whole time and couldn't control his actions? Wow that's a lot even for some fanboi.

i just wanted to tell you that you cant make conclusions without all the information needed.
the thing you do is you take what someone says and assume it is a fact.
you should really start watching some of sparks VODs to actually have a clue what was going on since you seem pretty interested .. or you just want to troll around a bit, dunno.

regarding the fanboy statement .. dont feed the retard.

And i'm telling you that's what i did, read again.

I watched sparks stream, and he did play as a lone star instead as a piece of a team. If you can't see that or admit that, you're just a fanboi.

Also who's more believable? 3 people that are legends of quake and openly explained in details evey situation when they didn't even need to, or someone that continuosly changes his mind about things and provides different versions of the same thing to different people, as confirmed by different sources on him?

"Many of the people complaining probably never even donated. I did and not upset about it why should you be? "

LOL great logic, not.

What a clusterfuck!

Funny thing is whaz could have made $2000 by staying with F'em (via rapha duel win), and they would have gotten a chance to win the CTF and so also the trimasters, which would have been a total of 6k for him.

Each time i read F'em i interpret it as Fuck Them, and thats exactly what they did to BREAK by negating practice time, LOL.

Great read meme, thanks for your time to do this.

Quakecon 2015 is becoming more and more reasumable in one word:



KARMA

(...) and they would have gotten a chance to win the CTF (...)

HAHHAHHAAHHAHGHAGGAHAGHHAA

No?


clueless.

I'm sorry as much as this would taste as good as a fresh bottle of Karma in the hot summer, I don't think f-eM stood a chance at CTF, even with whaz on their team.

could be wrong though, but MD was beasting and practising properly

Team modes built the community that encouraged players to fly thousands of miles and play for a realistic chance of ZERO dollars prize money.

I should not need to highlight the importance of focusing on making Quake an engaging and welcoming environment for team games. I outlined those obvious points previously.

XD
xD
Xd

So next Quakecon will just have European and possibly South American players in it?

At this point it comes down to whether sparks has refunded the donation money or not, which is around $1,000.

So, if you donated for him to attend to Quakecon, or to whichever other cause that he did not fulfill (GTA V comes to mind), and received a refund from him then please post stating that. Until then this is just assumptions, walls of text and sparks' word against the words from the interviewees.

Only time will tell if he is another bst. Kappa Keepo Koopa.



edit: The only things I can tell about this are that:

- Before Quakecon people asked sparks what would happen with the donation money were he not to attend, as he pretty much changed his mind everyday regarding attending or not, and he never, ever offered refunds. I can assure you that, so it's clear he only changed his mind yesterday (or at least posted so) and that change was caused by this thread. Personally, I'm glad I did not donate to him.

- If I were on rapha's team shoes I would have felt uncomfortable with one person of my team not knowing if he was going to attend or not, so I understand them. I mean, what sparks should have done is buying the plane ticket months in advance, and after that is done then ask for donations to cover that already paid for ticket. Without the plane ticket I cannot tell if a team mate is committed to the team or not, so might as well replace him with someone who is.

- And it has to be said that at the end of the day rapha & co were right to drop sparks from their team, as the fact is sparks did not attend and that surprise drop would have ruined their team.

At the time of roster changes the fact that sparks did not attend qcon is still in the future, so altering the present is line <blackboard + chalk> creating a fork in time continuum. You cannot go in the past and say rapha was right, because then spark only had potential to make him right. It's only the outcome of the changes towards that potential made this righteousness a reality.

Although not having the ticket while others do is definitely a red flag f-Em had a right to act upon.

Hard commit next time, Sparks.

Yes
No
Sparks is a clan whore

- hey, we could get whaz
- no, he's known for dropping out of teams, he does it constantly
- nah, he pinky sweared he wouldn't do that!
...
- he dropped our team

But did he swallow 1000 needles?

i dont eve!,
waht is this ?

Change conclusion to 8 x gamerz/girls/people/"?"/WTF had an argument over nothing and nothing happened (but somehow everyone got butthurt.)

Script for new vampire/wolf/barf teen movie?
profit?

Shut up and upload your config.

https://www.configs.eu/games/quakelive/vium-cfg/

Can anyone point me to Quakecon results? (who or which teams won and how much money they did win)

I am mentally challanged can't seem to find anything on news articles. Or anywhere else.

TDM: Meltdown won, they got $8,000
CTF: Meltdown won, they got $8,000
Duel: rapha won for his team, they got $8,000
Highest TDM+CTF+duel score combined: Meltdown won, they got $8,000
Additional duel match between rapha and evil: rapha won $8,000 for himself

Tournament trees for TDM, CTF, and Duel can be found here: http://challonge.com/users/syncerror

http://www.plusforward.net/post/286/QuakeCon-2015/

:)

))

!!

that prize distibution... wow

nice site, like the comments sections, looks like old crossfire.nu

Thanks, no idea what old crossfire looked like, i take it the old version looked better than the current? :P

I'll continue to try and improve it as best i can. Been working on the front page and the default theme the last few days and updated it just now. :)

much better... it's "upgrade" was even worse than Quake 4 was to Quake 3...