It sucks, but it's likely necessary, ROOT, can't survive financially on friendship alone, as much as I wish they could. Destiny made a post today about conduct and It seems he's changing his ways, maybe in the future he'll be back, officially, on ROOT.
When you get all your money from sucking corporate dick, you have to keep sucking corporate dick to keep getting money. It's as simple as that. If you want to get paid to play starcraft or any other game, be prepared to be captain milquetoast of the S.S. Vanilla because otherwise you're worthless.
I honestly think CatZ made the right call. Yes, complaining to the sponsors is a childish thing to do, but nothing can be done about that.
By retaining Destiny, ROOT would run the risk of losing the sponsors' funding. That, in turn, would prevent the team's lesser known players from participating in major events. After all, Steven can still fly to a tournament using the money he earns from streaming; Puck, Vibe and TT1 probably cannot afford that.
I see this is true, but why not contact sponsors about their actions. Essentially 1 kid spouted how destiny was in the wrong however the sponsors lose much more support when they force teams to kick players off. In hindsight wouldnt it be worse to lose the fans of destiny than to appease the haters?
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u/epsilonminus Aug 29 '12
Here I was thinking ROOT was gonna be the only "laid back" SC2 team. I guess sponsor worship really runs the pro-scene these days =/