Chinese team removed after being under contract already.
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"Triggered through our naivety and lack of adequate research"
Finding out that five of six Chinese "SK" players were under contract with Star Carior, the SK-Gaming organization removed the entire squad from the organization.
SK-Gaming was believed to have acquired a counter-part to the successful fnatic squad full of top Chinese stars. A roster with Junchun 'Pj' Sha, Luming 'Super' Zhang, and Lei 'Chinatttt' Zhang was presented yesterday. Chinese cream of the crop players mixed with foreign novices in comparison was supposed to be the new SK-Gaming, but it faltered due to miscommunication, lack of research and naivete.
It was the team Not Allowed that had attracted the Chinese players from Star Carior to play in the foreign leagues, as reported by GosuGamers a month ago. The team managers are said to have withheld information about the players being under a Star Carior contract.
- "We believed the offer to be genuine given that the high-flying Chinese players they mentioned all played under their team name [EN], and a deal was struck to recruit the eleven players in their team," explains Editor-in-Chief Lawrence 'Malystryx' Phillips in the official news.
- "The deal which seem too good to be true, came back to haunt us as we unearthed earlier today, that in fact five of the six Chinese players - including WCG silver medalist Junchun 'Pj' Sha - were already under contract in a team called Star Carior, which was not widely documented. Furthermore, after contacting PJ we discovered that himself and his four colleagues actually had not been informed at all by their two managers that they had joined SK Gaming," adds Malystryx.
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