FURIA contracts come under scrutiny

According to esports lawyer Ryan Fairchild, the alleged portions of the contract illustrated unusually high buyouts and low prizepool renumeration clauses.

FURIA’s players allegedly had less than stellar contracts when their fame started to rise

With the news recently breaking that FURIA have signed 5-year contract extensions with the entirety of their roster, Jarek "DeKay" Lewis has released an article allegedly containing one of FURIA's original contracts. Within the article they are described by esports lawyer Ryan Fairchild as "among the worst he's ever seen" in regard to their buyout and prize pool sharing clauses.

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In the article, DeKay released numerous alleged screenshots of FURIA's original contracts which shed details on the conditions FURIA's players were playing under when they began their meteoric rise at the end of 2018. Among the details released were the fact that while FURIA's players were paid $1,400 a month, they had a base buyout price of around $200,000 which Fairchild describes as “ridiculous and oppressive".

Additionally, FURIA's players allegedly only received 40% of money from prizepools compared to most "Valve game" prizepools Fairchild has seen, which usually allocate 90% to the player.

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Following DeKay's article, FURIA in esports tradition fired back with a TwitLonger, challenging the veracity of the report. FURIA started off by claiming that DeKay did not reach out to the organization for comment about the contracts, although numerous follow-up Tweets from DeKay seem to discredit this.

.@furiagg says I didn’t request for comment



Oh what’s this?! Oops. pic.twitter.com/rMnVrVNDU4 — DeKay (@dekay) June 25, 2019

FURIA follow by saying that the contract released in the article is not legitimate and that DeKay's "sources" are "very ill-informed, or ill-intentioned". Finally, they state that under the current and former contracts, FURIA's players received salaries and renumeration far higher than the figures quoted in the article, and although the high buyout is not contested, they argue it is to protect their players from "harassment by other teams".

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Ryan of Rush B Media is set to interview FURIA co-owner André Akkari this week where the claims made in this article will be discussed alongside the recently signed 5-year contracts.