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egarding the Obey x Rogue roster situation:



Let me paint a picture for you if you don’t know anything about the Obey team. This team started right after Season 9 of Challenger League ended. The roster was: Callout, Forrest, Gryxr, K2, and Dream. K2 gets dropped/leaves (whatever it is) and I join. About a month later, Dream leaves to join 2F (now in PL, good shit) and we pick up Kilo who grinded with us until we qualified for CL, then we let him go because of internal problems that couldn’t be resolved. After this, Abunai joined. We had a pretty successful run prior to CL and played well in USN and Raleigh Playoffs, etc. We picked up Abunai and took off in team success. We basically stormed through CL and stayed in first the whole time. By this time, we started to realize that relegations were a huge possibility, so that was our focus for 2 weeks when we figured out we were guaranteed relegations against Soniqs or Rogue. Relegations comes around and we 2-0 Soniqs. We are in high spirits and telling our families that we are making bank in the coming month or so when we would eventually sign to a “T1 org.” We had an agent (TyTangles) who did all the organization stuff that no one wants to do. We had multiple meetings and one almost solidified offer. We had multiple days off of not scrimming to deal with these huge decisions and then we finally start practicing for PL in January. Prior to this, we did a role change where I would be put on main support and Callout would be on my previous roles. I really wasn’t happy with this change because my previous roles fit my play style a lot better, but that’s neither here nor there. I start practicing the role swap and I said to Forrest: “If I don’t do well on this role swap, I’m going to get dropped.” He replies, “I’m not a fan of this role change, I don’t want anyone dropped.” On top of that, Forrest says, “We win together and we lose together” after we make PL, but money changes people for the worst because they’ve never seen that big of a paycheck. We get told that Rogue reached out to Callout with a deal that he was not interested in. The deal was as follows: Callout, Forrest, Grxyr, Easilyy, and VertcL. Callout initially said no to the deal and we were all well aware of the deal and what it entailed. A day passes by and we had a meeting with another top tier organization that seemed like they were very interested in us. Throughout this entire process, we told this organization that “we are a team who doesn’t make roster changes, we stick things out and try and make it work before we just kick someone.” A couple hours went by and we all got off to go play ranked, do homework, or whatever it is. Abunai texts me and says that Gryxr left him to join a private call with everyone except for Abunai and I. So, I message the group chat and ask what’s going on because something didn’t feel right. I get no response for about an hour and a half. They were blatantly ignoring us and talking about the Rogue deal privately. Finally, they bring Abunai and I into the call and tell us we are being dropped for Easilyy and VertcL. They had XecratioN speak for them, who was our coach and still is their coach. I didn’t care for what XecratioN had to say for the simple fact that I wanted to hear what Forrest had to say about it, but he kept saying, “I don’t want to talk about it, I’ll just leave the call.”



Fast forward a little bit and we find out the person who pushed this deal was no other than Forrest himself. I don’t hate anyone on that team except for him. He’s selfish, has a clouded judgement because of money, and much more. Pretty much a fucking rat. Do I think Abunai should have gotten dropped? No. Do I think I should have gotten dropped? No. All of this for $11,000 a month to get 2 players who will absolutely HATE teaming with Forrest because all he does is argue and can’t communicate properly.



You can say this got blown out of proportion from the outside looking in and keep saying it’s a business, but this move specifically wasn’t a business move; it was a money move. Callout even said that he didn’t want to do this, but felt if he said no, he would lose his spot to one of us, which is understandable.



Apparently, Forrest has always been about the money. Now I don’t know if this is true, but I was told that Forrest stole money from his teams on Xbox after winning the majors or something. He was always talking about money and it shows how shitty of a person he is.



Also, they pretty much told Bugs (our amazing analyst) to leave.



Yeti is a good player and he deserves a shot, but the team had multiple chances to get Abunai and I back but they didn't because they said it would be "weird".



Best of luck to Callout and Xecration in PL.



That’s all, thank you.



- Phozzo ✌

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