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Between covid-19 and many other difficulties, The escape The third or third season of the league has been as far away from the railroad as anyone could have imagined. Now, after losing star player to Allowed last week, the league has lost one of its top teams. At least, for a while.

Today, the Vancouver Titans, the second team to be in second place after winning the San Francisco Shocks, have announced that they have parted ways with just about everyone in their league – one of the biggest players the beloved Korean RunAway group. In particular, HyoJong "HakSal" Kim, Minsoo "Seominsoo" Seo, Seongjun "Slime" Kim, Chunghee "Stitch" Lee, Juseok "Twilight" Lee, Jehong "RyuJehong" Yu, and Chan Hyeong "Fissure" Baek all became free agents , with coaches Yang-won “Yang1” Kweon and JaeHong “Andante” Hwang. According to the Titans organization, all those players and staff "agreed to agree on ways" with the team, except Baek, who was released by the Titans. " Last week, two-time tanker and season two opponent to MVP Hyeon-woo “Jjanu” Choi and head coach Jisub “Pajion” Hwang have separated from the team.

In posted on the Vancouver Titans website, the agency tracked the sudden occurrence of until covid-19 substance problems. At the start of the season, the team was about to work out of a building in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, but that plan broke down when countries began to handle the entire covid-19 threat. The Titans players & # 39 ;, all Korean, are forced to return home. After The escape The league has also changed a number of games and switched to a completely online format, the Titanans hoping to continue the lineup that fits the players' timeline. It didn't work.

"Our first plan was for the team to participate in the Asian stage and continue to play a new home improvement program for players, but it soon became apparent that this created new challenges," said Titans organization. "The time difference has made it difficult for management and home fans to communicate with the team and the technical challenges of home players exacerbate the situation."

And then, "after much thought and discussion with the players," the organization decided to find a new system and bring the team back to the North American stage. The Titans will inform you of the new listing “in the coming days.”

As for former players, many have taken to Twitter to say that they are now looking for new teams, but others, as professionals The escape longtimer Yu and tank player Baek proclaim that they will to take a break before resuming their activities. Baek also said that players would not want to pay the rest of their contracts with the club.

Speaking to Kotaku Under the condition of anonymity, two sources with information on player interaction with the Vancouver Titans and its owners, Canucks Sports & Entertainment, said the player's departure was the result of a major pattern of misconduct. Even before the epidemic, sources said, players were dissatisfied with the three-season accommodation, such as the small hotel rooms with concrete walls and the smaller ones, in contrast to the Titans organization center described in today's post, with the best houses provided in the past.

The team's foundation was also dissatisfied with their contracts, an organization that would neglect to make a significant resume despite the season's two-way performance, instead opting to spend an uneven amount of money on the big-name players, Baek and Ju. Paying on time, in general, has been a problem, albeit a little later. However, another source said that players had been planning to "hit" and refrain from playing before the epidemic broke out. Then, according to both sources, when the strike occurred, players were forced to find their own houses back in Korea, instead of being donated by the organization. This means another source, a major difference in how other groups handle the situation.

"Many teams have had to make some quick decisions this year where their players will stay with the disease," the source said Kotaku. “Chinese OW teams had to move to Korea temporarily. The distances those orgs travel make sure their players have the best (albeit imperfect) conditions to stay in (e) Korea bigger. Vancouver did nothing to try to accommodate the players when they returned home. ”

Communication was also a problem, with one major point of contact going to incommunicado throughout the month, according to one source. Overall, says one, the North American-based organization did not seem to be equipped to run a team made up of Korean players.

"Most of these teams, especially those in Korea, have local support staff who are able to help players get used to living in unfamiliar places," the source said. “The Titans really didn't have that. I think the easiest way to explain the possibility of (was like) an org was wanting to be involved in esports but didn't take ownership of the daily investment. Make it look like it was something you had to take time to start the season, with the team getting ready. ”

Finally, given the conditions, many players have agreed to leave the team, preventing them from receiving the remainder of their contracts. Baek did not, so, according to one source, "instead of taking him out and paying his contract, (the organization) claimed that it had breached his contract so they could release him without paying him."

Kotaku reached out to the Vancouver Titans again The escape Strive for more information, but as of this publication, the league is pointing Kotaku in the first statement of the Titans, and the Titans did not respond.

(Update: 7:08 p.m .: A source with the Vancouver Titans contradicts some of these things of events, claiming to answer the pay-query question that "players were paid according to their contracts." The Titans source also emphasized that sports teams such as the Toronto Raptors spent training camps at the same location as the Titans were set at the start of the season. The source added, however, that there had been "ongoing discussions around the players and their living conditions" with the general manager of the team prior to the covid-19 outbreak. The source also revealed that Yu and Baek were actually earning more money than the other players, but their numbers were not, in their eyes, "very high." As for the plans to stay in Korea, a source said that players have a place to live where they "agreed" to stay and play. Finally, while they refused to disclose the exact terms of Baek's release, they claimed that his contract was terminated "for no reason & # 39;", that is, because of any breach of trust – today.

Last week, The escape League VP Jon Spector has published a letter to fans acknowledging the third season to be a "highway", but it also means that future plans are like planning for the tournament to be launched this month, improving production rates and playing later this year. He also said that the tokens go down, a Twitch feature that allowed players to earn in-game revenue from watching matches, will eventually be part of the current OWL offer (at least, on the OWL website and mobile app) in "a couple of weeks." The YouTube equivalent is "still valid."

In his letter, Spector also acknowledged the players' departure and retirement.

"We know from talking to our players and teams that Covid-19 has put a lot of pressure on many of them," he wrote. “My teams and I have worked hard to support the players, including things like providing world-class health services. But I expect that many players will make the difficult decision to put things ahead of their professional careers in this area. We wish them well but also understand and respect those decisions. They will always be part of The escape it supports the family. ”

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