The past few weeks have been tumultuous for us at The Gosu Crew. We are an organization that prides itself on transparency, communication, and trust, and we expect the same from our players. In pursuing those values, we wanted to address some of what has been going on.

Following MLG Dallas, in discussions with our players, we learned that several of them no longer wished to be a part of our organization because they felt their personal brands could be fostered better at another org. Of course, we were upset by this after spending so much time, money, and effort to help the players and the team grow. Despite the fact that we had renegotiated a more favorable contract for the players two months prior, which was still active, we began to discuss buyouts with other organizations in accordance with their wishes. Throughout this process, we have been entirely transparent with the players. The buyout discussions are still ongoing, but have yet to bear any fruit. As esports is a business and we did invest a substantial amount of time, money and effort into helping the individual players and team grow, we also need to ensure that the buyout amount appropriately reflects that investment, while still remaining reasonable. To date, Maux, Drama, Xotic and Priestahh are currently under contract with our organization, though some may not be happy about that. Of course, buyout negotiations can only continue where the other organization is open to such discussion.

Unfortunately, in recent days, baseless allegations have been brought against our organization by some of our players. These allegations, which will not be reiterated here, are entirely, unequivocally, 100% false. Our organization has supported our players (whether it be by bootcamping at our owner’s house, renegotiating contracts to address player concerns, or advancing salaries) and will continue to do so. We have discussed the allegations with our attorney, and believe that they stem from a fundamental misunderstanding of a few areas of the contract that was entered into. Or, these allegations are the result of players being unhappy with the progress of buyout negotiations. Either way, we have done nothing legally wrong, all of our obligations have been met, and buyout negotiations will continue.

Despite the fact that our organization would hate to see this talented group of gentlemen leave, we still want to ensure that the players are happy. We have never opposed that, or acted in opposition to it.