Looking professional The escape the match can be chaotic. From time to time, team fights look less like cohesive encounters, storyline and more like cartoon characters and kicks in the dust clouds. Critics play a very important role, creating a sense of madness for both esports fans and key listeners who are not allowed to attract attention. But just in the third season, The escape The league has lost some of its best known publishers.
Since the tail end in 2019, four major members of the OWL talented desk have announced their departure. Christopher “MonteCristo” Mykles, Erik “Doa” Lonnquist, Chris Puckett, and Auguste “Semmler” Massonnat have all opted to take their services elsewhere after the end of their contract with the league.
Mykles and Lonnquist, who bid farewell to the league At the end of last month and beginning of this month, respectively, for the seven-year anniversary, gaining popularity in Korea in comments League of Legends before switching to The escape, when Blizzard kicks off its esports program in 2017. Puckett, too announced his departure earlier this month, similar streaming games Halo and Call of Duty for more than ten years before becoming the chief custodian of The escape The broadcast of the organization when the league started. Massonnat, anyone he made his announcement today, formerly known as a Be proud caster, but quickly became one of the most recognizable in the league. If you've watched even one or two The escape The broadcasts of an organization, the more likely you are to hear all these names of people.
Give each one their reasons for leaving. In Twitter video, Puckett said his wife has received promotions from him in New York, so he has decided to be free. Lonnquist said in a Twitlonger post that he was returning to the intolerable waters "due to some of the Society's decisions last year following the guidance, administration, and resistance input from veteran esports [workers]."
Speaking to Loadout, Massonnat downplayed his decision to leave The escape has grown and evolved over the years.
“If you watch me throw Fighting, you know I like to be happy and hyped, but also that I'm not lying, ”she said. “But that would be very difficult inside The escape. The game has changed a lot since season one and when we first started out. There were many options for performance skills and great play. I feel like it's still possible to carry the team hard but it is difficult now after the last two years. [The new meta] slowed the game down so it was hard for me to give it up. ”
Mykles, it often speaks, he has been very vocal about his decision to split with the esports juggernaut Blizzard already, initially saying on Twitter that 2019 departure for OWL commissioner Nate Nanzer "It has led to an unparalleled creative and philosophical divide between me and the current leadership of the league, and all parties will be better served by the means of diversity."
Speaking to The Washington Post, Mykles made it clear, saying that he would not be able to get Blizzard on the board with streaming ideas that would focus on entertainment and make some players stars. He also rejected the OWL's focus on attracting the best viewers, instead opting to do something with esports fans. Finally, he was nervous about the need for a three-season tour, which would see teams working out of their cities playing home and back games. He said: “Throwing will never be the only thing I do The Washington Post, noting that he expected the OWL to have more employers by this time. And at that point of departure, it becomes difficult to do something else. ”
On Twitter, Mykles also said that the rumors that Blizzard was trying to use "cheap" talent did not apply to him, but went on to say that those rumors were – issued by Myles' best friend, esports analyst and note being abused The Duncan "Thorin" Shields – totally ignorant. "Your princess is in another palace," said Mykles.
The The escape The league is already hiring for new talent, including The escape Sports broadcaster Andrew “ZP” Rush and former OWL players Jacob “Jake” Lyon and Scott “Custa” Kennedy.
Update 1/13/2020, 9:00 PM ET: Veteran keeper Malik Forté, with him The escape The league for two years, announced it had also decided not to renew its contract. In the email at Kotaku, said he had "nothing but the utmost respect" of everyone participating in the OWL, but while not sure what kind of payment Blizzard gave to other team members, he was satisfied with the number the company proposed.
"I can speak for myself and say, after years of being part of this community, traveling the world, interacting with fans, making content, national television commercials, and a lot of hard work – I was expecting a little more than than that was proposed by 2020, ”Forté
he said. "I think they didn't think I needed what I asked for, so we never got to the logical number to go ahead."
