Peas are delicious

Man, I just wanna watch people who are good at video games play them against other people who are also good at video games. Now we have unions and protests and shady backroom contracts and shit? I thought games were to escape real life.

according to dekay, the TSM players will leave the TSM org altogether and join a new one.

All this over epl when tsm is still in premier lmao

Shit's different when there's lots of money involved. Why do you think competitive TF2 is so uneventful in comparison?

source? certainly not unfathomable, but i don't see this posted anywhere.

dekay is the source, hes the adam schefter of csgo

this isn't true, he said they have 76 reasons to leave tsm which is pointing to them joining dignitas since they recently got bought by the 76ers. this is just speculation though, not something he confirmed.
edit: https://twitter.com/nwdekay/status/812122711937806336

"The soon to be ex-TSM roster"

you have to think he knows something

i understand that. dekay is more confident whenever he reports on something. he's known in the community as the "per sources" guy. the "76 reasons" thing is just referring to Dignitas not having a roster, but wanting to build one in NA. no concrete info AFAIK right now about the rest of the remaining TSM roster, but, again, not unfathomable they will try to stick together with sean.

Sorta off topic, I'm not sure why dekay is still seen as some holy beacon of esports insider journalism, considering pretty much everything interesting he 'reports' gets leaked by Haci/yee_lmao or HLTV way before he publishes anything (see: -fnx +felps to SK, for which Haci provided proof 2 months before Dekay published an article about it). He's literally just someone who reposts the leaks, adds 'per sources' and rakes in ad revenue. Hardly a real esports journalist compared to people like Richard Lewis, considering Dekay just leaches off other people's work and then doesn't credit them, but he'll cry when HLTV doesn't credit him as source of articles, even though there's no reason to believe he even was the source. He's a massive hypocrite.

Also I agree with the removal of Sean, honestly. He signed a contract for them a week ago, doesn't bring up an issue he had with his boss but decides to go public with a letter that hurts their brand anyway? Couldn't you just try to resolve this internally instead of leaking company communication, which in almost any other job is enough to get fired and/or sued?

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1spfdng

But that's the point, couldn't they halt the letter being published to see how their new org would react to their concerns?

I understand why regi cut sean but I don't agree with it. regi cares more about his brand than actually getting results with his team and considering sean is the only good available igl tsm is fucked

I think that a lot of people would've cut sean for what he did, it's less about his brand and more about his ego

http://www.hltv.org/?pageid=246&playerid=1916

look at all those INSANE wins against
-flipsid3
-splyce
-CLG

sgares is overrated tbh

summer 2015 he beat prime fnatic in a bo3 and got second place at three international tournaments. there are also no other good igls available or would go to tsm.

I feel like this is what will hurt the community. Monopolizing the pro scene is hurtful, especially if some small startup league tries to do so.

Kinda offtop, but holy shit the ads on hltv website take like 50% of the screen. How can you actively use it and not get brain damage?

the hltv community is total garbage but hltv has an easy to use match ticker and high quality stats pages

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Shit like this is why I hope TF2 never gets to be "big", just sustainable.
If I wanted that much drama and con artistry, I'd be playing other games.

https://slingshotesports.com/2017/01/04/pea-players-vote-to-play-in-esl-pro-league-professional-esports-association/

If anyone wants an update, the players voted if they wanted to play in the EPL or the PEA, and the players voted for the EPL. So PEA is probably done for.