There were three main thesis in my blog:
We need contracts between clubs and organizations before announcing the teams participating on the tournament.
We will not participate only on the tournaments and leagues that did not pay off their debts. We did not boycott anyone.
I described the situation that Starladder delays the money and I know the reasons why, I do not have any doubts that everything will be paid out, but I do not accept the fact that we discuss the timings of those payments only after the tournaments ended. This can take months because of the lack of those contracts.
In the end, there was an intense discussion in the comments about the contracts and the problems that have to be solved. I never wrote that ESEA or CPH do not pay their money or act unfairly in any way, I emphasized that we have problems with certain organizations because of the lack of contracts, for example: these two organizations paid out the winnings directly to the manager of the organization. It is good that the hired manager is an honest person, but legally they pay out the money to a personal account without any contract, without any notice to VP owners. There were many situations when managers stole money from the players, so how can I prove that the winnings were really paid out to VP? In this situation with those tournaments the players got all their money, we participate in those tournaments year by year and I never wrote that they did not pay. I am considering the official ESEA reply to my blog to be a misunderstanding, and we already discussed it privately.
EMC (Excellent Moscow Cup) and Techlabs intact do not pay out their money for months now, they do promise they will, but fact is a fact – there is no money. i-League do not refuse to pay us their money, but we have to either travel to China or open Chinese bank accounts to get them, if we were told of that before hand we simply would not have participated at all.
There is also a long list of tournaments that pay out the money within 90 days. However, often times it turns into a quite painful process, all these talks through Skype and emails about problems of both sides does not help our industry to grow.
I may have spoke harshly in some places, and my words may have been interpreted as an attack on the tournaments in others. Virtus.pro had many situations: sometimes managers stole the money and I had to pay out to players from my own pocket, sometimes players stole money from the organization, and a lot of other ugly stuff. The blog had only one message: I, as a person who always pays my debts, want to protect my investments in a legal way, without attacking anyone or start a war through announcements or blogs.
P.S. I understand that I painted a mark on myself and that many would not take my side because of taking this discussion to public. However, if I would not be paying the players for months, would not there be first page news about how VP is a bad and untrustworthy organization?