The G7 Teams have collaborated with the e-sports community to take action against companies who have yet to pay their promised prize money. The teams may resort to legal action against the accused companies if compromise is not reached.
In September G7 Teams had communicated with the e-sports community to submit any claims for unpaid prize winnings. According to the numerous e-mails received by the teams in just two weeks it was found out that a total of $355,208 in prize money was missing from different organizers such as the CPL, ESWC and GGL / Clanbase. The G7 has thus decided to take action by contacting the organizations in debt and applying to them on behalf of the e-sports community to pay the promised prize money to the players.
Till date G7 has approached CPL, which was recently bought by an Abu Dhabi based investment company; ESWC, which recently filed for bankruptcy and has since been re-purchased by DIP Communications, and GGL / Clanbase, which is being sued by Game Hosting for unpaid server hosting bills, which together add up to over $274,000 in claims. The responses from ESWC has been vague and hence the teams have decided to continue to reach out to each organization, notify current partners, start online petitions, and explore legal routes in an attempt to bring resolution to the issue. The teams have appealed to the e-sports community to boycott their ongoing activities with the aforementioned organizations until they engage in constructive discussions with G7 to investigate and resolve the community's claims.
Organizations like the WCG and KODE5 which has paid out millions of dollars to gamers around the world, do not have any significant open claims. G7 is also encouraging the companies like ESL who are trying to pay the outstanding prize money.
The e-sports community is confident that everything which was not achieved by the gamers working solo will be achieved by the collective and coordinated efforts of the G7 teams along with the community.
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