Long story short they hadn't finalized contracts, xqc found out he wouldn't be able to pay salaries due to an ongoing divorce suit that limits his spending, he ended up paying 2 weeks salary to make up for wasting their time
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Why XQC didn't buy TT
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He mentioned that they didn't get pay yet ? Also 2 week salary so he says 12.5k total.
https://clips.twitch.tv/BrightTrappedDelicataBlargNaut-UuduHXsKvx9O6P95
they are mad at him for leading a team of players making $0 on for a few weeks when they could have been looking for other offers, and by doing so it makes every other org stop looking at TTR because those orgs assume it would just be a waste of time to look at the team if they are going to get signed by someone else. which I think is totally fair.
-> Prospective orgs stop being prospective and the players have more time where they are not getting paid or even looking for those possible prospective orgs.
But also his reason for not being able to sign them seems fair, with the very limited info of course... so grain of salt (the only thing I have heard about this is legit this one thread)
but look at it from xqc's perspective, no matter how rich he is, he is not gonna make a decision to spend 500k on a whim, of course, it's gonna take him days/weeks to make that decision especially since he does not own an org and has no experience owning an org and ttr have been free agent team for literally years now if there were offers they wouldn't be an f/a team this long and now since its clear xqc is not pursuing them why arent other orgs picking them up? Its so stupid to be mad at someone for that.
I am looking at it from his perspective the best I can, with the limited info I have, and that's why I am not exactly "mad" per say. I think the players are more so annoyed because of how far along in the process it was apparently with most of the members tweeting out the like contract signing gif that literally every val player does when they get signed. It's obviously his money and he can do what he wants and investing in a esports org (especially right now) is not very profitable. So if he doesn't want to get in, that's fine. But people are annoyed because he was showing that he was going to get in and then just didn't
- The statement about TTR being a free agent team for years is just untrue because before everyone was on their own separate teams before they decided to compete for challengers as a group of 5 just recently. ALSO being 1 of 12 teams in challengers is a much more enticing position for orgs to pick up a team where the team will always be playing for a year at one of the highest levels of NA val, rather than just picking up a team in the actual like t2-3 sphere that might not even play in anything.
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The other thing to consider is that TTR has had this type of situation happen before with EG showing interest in add3r for an extended period of time, forcing the team in this state of limbo not knowing if they were going to have a player or not because of EG doing this back and forth of they were going to sign or were they not going to sign add3r. So this adds even more to the players being annoyed by having a contract waved in front of their face and then just pulled back, because of reasons out of their control.
Also its pretty common to have offers from multiple orgs at the same time in esports, there has never been an instance where orgs stop pursuing the players/teams if the players have offers from other orgs in fact a lot of the time orgs even hi-jack teams/players from other orgs so I highly doubt other orgs would have stopped pursuing them if they had their eyes on them
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