Heisenthul · @LxthuL
21st Mar 2018 from TwitLonger
Ex-OpTic Halo Closure
Hey everyone, it's been like 2 weeks or so but after basically not talking about the topic at all because of some hopeful plans for the future I think now is a good time to give some answers for people that have wanted them. We haven't said much about parting ways with OpTic because there was still a good chance of working out a deal, but our current contracts had finished up in March.
We originally couldn't come to a mutual agreement due to lack of communication. For anyone that knows a decent amount about myself and my team we are professional players first. We treat this as much like a job as I think anybody possibly could and it is our top priority. Knowing the dates of worlds and the preceding events for qualifying we wanted to get a deal figured out before it got closer to event time and not deal with the added stress so close to the most important time of the year for us. We brought this up in the beginning of December hoping to be able to get things done but unfortunately it didn't end up happening.
After the new year when infinite took over our talks on our upcoming expiring contracts was just one to two messages a day and no verbal communication. We probably could have tried harder and been very annoying but the effort being shown back to us in the talks wasn't doing anything to motivate that. Although this wasn't ideal it also wasn't the end of the world. February hit and Orlando was coming up so we just focused on doing our jobs. Then in a show of good faith in the eyes of infinite they offered us a deal which would extend until April and let worlds go by without this being an issue. Unfortunately this deal made no sense for us because if we placed well at worlds like we obviously hope to, we would be losing more money than we would be gaining from the short extension.
Fast forward to March 8th, we get in a call with somebody from infinite and going into it we thought it was going to be a contract negotiation type thing and we might finally figure this out, but it seemed as though they had other plans and we were being a bit too difficult for what we were worth and it would be good to just end the partnership amicably. This caught us by surprise of course but the cherry on top of that was when they admitted to not knowing our prize pool for worlds after the extension was brought up when explaining why it would make no financial sense for us to accept that. They admitted that they agree it would be stupid to accept that deal if we were us.
Now move onto this last week. After news hit and people seemed confused, and others just posted about how halo is dead and of course optic wouldn't waste their time with the game, we got in contact with the head of infinite because he thought that things just didn't work out properly and there were a lot of things that came together to create the perfect storm. We agreed for the most part and were completely ok with still coming to an agreement and working with OpTic, because it was the org we had always wanted to be on as a team and our year and a half there was great. After a couple talks that all went well, we were pretty much set and seemed like we were going to be returning.
That was last Friday. Our tournament to qualify for worlds is this weekend. We were told Friday that we would be messaged back by the end of the day, end of the weekend at the latest with the last details we needed to choose. It is currently Wednesday, we have heard nothing back and after 3 messages trying to get some answer or reply, literally anything at all, it didn't happen. Today is the deadline for submitting a team name/org so the window is closed.
I can say for myself at least that our time on OpTic lived up to our expectations for them, and reinforced that we made the right choice a year and a half ago when we joined. The fanbase, the people, the org was all I could have hoped for and more. I got to live in the scuf house for the majority of 2016 and it was a time I look back and smile at. I still miss the Barrington ihop.
Lastly, thank you to hecz for treating us so well. Personally from the second I drove down to the scuf house for vision in my old Ford Explorer, he treated me like a friend he had known for years and always had our best interest in mind and even after it originally was announced that we had split with optic he still tried his best for us in hopes that it would work out.
TLDR Bad communication issues leading to optic “releasing” us, then while currently renegotiating to rejoin OpTic, we have gone 4 days without any replies or word from Infinite even after a deal was figured out after choosing 1 more detail. We will now be funding ourselves for the next two tournaments. Thank you for the support