Official Statement regarding Late Night League staff reshuffle

We would like to whole heartedly thank all of the staff members that actually worked on the Late Night League and provided feedback, and their high level of professionalism when representing the Late Night League and Maestro eSports.



It all started with our Rocket League Team's manager contacting Me (Alessio Florio) about hosting a Rocket League tournament. Because our organization is looking to grow I willingly accepted his proposal, he told me he new a couple people that would be able to organize and host a tournament. He told me this on November 1st. We actually went in a meeting with ShmootzyWootzy and BornWolf that night. We spoke about how we would organize the tournament and on what terms we would operate. We as Maestro eSports said that due to us providing a decent amount of our resources (GFX Design and Web design/Backend Development) for free that we would have ownership of LateNightLeague. They fully agreed on that. At one point everyone knew their tasks, Maestro eSports would take care of web development, marketing and GFX Designing (Logos, overlays, etc). While they would take care of finding teams apart from our marketing them self, look for casters, organize the servers and pay 50% of the initial price pool which is €25. We agreed on actually paying the other 50% making the initial price pool €50. We also had the following schedule:



- Planning -

From 1st of November to 19th November preparation time (finishing the site and gfx etc),

19th to 22th marketing time,

21st mail to all of the teams regarding rule-set and streams,

22nd Bracket setup,

23rd Plan execution time (start of tournament).



So, we had had to finish a site in less than eighteen days and make all of the GFX. Seems reasonable right? The GFX turned out to be a week finished prior before the tournament actually started. Our website turned out different though, making a entire site from scratch is not something you can do in two weeks. Instead of actually using a pre-made site and looking a like other organizations and tournament organizers we wanted something unique. So, we took responsibility on making sure the site would be operational before the end of the preparation time. We managed to make it operational in that time, even though of a bug with the signup system we managed to find a alternative the day after. We take the full responsibility on having that bug and a loss of sign ups.



We (Maestro eSports staff) reminded them that they should make more progress due to the execution date coming close. Every time we told them that they seemed like they where just talking over us like we weren't there not listening. I (Alessio Florio) even told our Rocket League team manager if he knew what the guys (ShmootzyWootzy, BornWolf and the rest of the so called 'Staff') where doing, we where putting our time and effort into actually making something of the tournament while they literally only transferred the Discord server with the Late Night League branding and made some Twitter account for Late Night League.



After starting the initial marketing process of Late Night League we started to even lose more faith into the lets call it (Discord side) of the tournament, Maestro eSports operates trough Teamspeak and Whatsapp while they (ShmootzyWootzy, BornWolf and the rest of the so called 'Staff') operate trough Discord only. Once we reached a lot of good comments on our marketing and a decent amount of publicity we hoped that they would finally realize that they had to provide their side of the plan. They still didn't comply and didn't do anything. At this point everyone of the Maestro eSports staff was starting to doubt for what reason we've actually started to collaborate with them. On the 21st of November I started getting messages from organizations and companies that ShmootzyWootzy had approached with him being unprofessional and an 'untrusted figure in the Rocket League scene'. All those other partners declined him. Not only because of his unprofessional behaviour, but also because of him choosing staff members, he had staff members that actually violated rules of other communities.



After getting so many reports and comments about him (ShmootzyWootzy) not being the best person to organize a tournament with I had a meeting with the Maestro eSports staff and we decided end the collaboration with the (Discord side) of the tournament (ShmootzyWootzy, BornWolf and the rest of the so called 'Staff'). I respectfully and formally told them that Maestro eSports will be discontinuing the collaboration between them and us. I (Alessio Florio) also told them that all the money that has been donated and provided for the Late Night League tournament would be provided back to the senders paypal at the end of this month the 30th of november. After I said that, ShmootzyWootzy suddenly began to swear and use un-formal words. I (Alessio Florio) never spoke in a disrespectfully way to anyone, I simply pointed out that we are ending the collaboration due to them not fulfilling their part of the agreement. After some words were exchanged where I (Alessio Florio) was still being formal, he continued to swear, use foul language and then I was banned from the Discord server including the rest of the Maestro eSports staff. Without us actually being able to log the chat messages they send to us, very clever idea from them.



Anyhow, we want to thank anyone who decided to listen to our side of the story, they've put up a false image and impression of us with all of the people on their Discord up-voting the Reddit post they have made. We will still return the money that they have provided to us.



Sincerely,



Staff of Maestro eSports and Alessio Florio,

Chief Executive Officer of Maestro eSports.

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