Letter From CPL to Gamers.com

A w00t.

*snicker*

Who wants to place bets on those guys being Gamers.com employees or friends.

Looking at that really harsh article steve had on shackes and his comments i would hardly call steve a cpl fanboy. that thing was brutal on cpl.

Gamers.com used "alleged" which is perfectly OK. The guy in question filed a report with the police, so even at that level it's news.

Hmmm, that assault stuff was elsewhere, it was on ShackES for one thing.

Not to fuel this discussion, but I was legally in the right when I touched Mark Henry on the shoulder. A person of authority has the right to do so at a private function in order to calm or control a situation. read: a bouncer at a bar. Also, we are just talking about a light touch here, which several witnesses can attest to.

Another thing to note is that the presense of a police report does not incriminate me. It was simply an incident report, which any person has the right to file whether his accusations are true or not.

Cheers.

Mike's contact with twilight was absolutely not made in any threatening manner. I witnessed the entire incident and Mike was simply trying to convey the seriousness of the conversation and asking that Twilight treat himself and the other CPL workers with the appropriate respect.

I guess Gamers.com is now Gamers Enquirer.

haha!

Strongarming tactics....no?

The whole assault issue is beside the point.. The point being that Angel Munoz is a fucking moron, and he has all but proven that in the past 24 hours. I hope he doesn't sue me for defamation of character because of this post.

For some additional fun, read the thread at Cached where Angel goes at an ineffectual attack on Gamers.com and equally ineffectual defense of the CPL.

Both look bad, agreed. This is one of those times lawyers should have stepped in front of the PR department and handled it.

GIGGLER? assault?

not to be rude to mike, but he's a little guy.

it would have to be one small fucker to be assaulted or even feel threatened by him!

i don't know mike personally but have been around him every year since THE FRAG 1. he's always been uber mellow

pgl will never be what the cpl already is

i have been to a few cpl events and they are run GREAT.

angel runs a tight ship and runs it well.

pgl was is and will always be GHEY

The CPL official in question did effectively admit to assault, he admitted to grabbing the kid by his shoulder "to make eye contact".

legally, that constitutes assault.

I didnt know that slander was 'fresh' and 'in my face'

"pro" gaming is stupid anyway. So WGAS what happened?

CPL can suck my dick. Just because only one site reported something doesn't mean it was not true.

For anyone reading the account of this situation, as given by the "victim", how could you possibly believe that story? It makes absolutely no sense.

“Excuse me. I’m not sure what the problem is, but do not curse at me.”

Yeah, right. As if anyone speaks with that degree of literacy when someone has just told them "I'm not taking any more of your shit". And to suggest that out of nowhere - for "no reason at all" - an event judge is going to shove someone physically and demand an apology from an event-competitor who did absolutely nothing is a complete crock.

Twilight tries to portray himself as so naively innocent in this matter that he might as well be wearing a halo (he just happens to like blowing the shit out of his opponents in one of the most violent games on the market). He wants everyone to believe that he did absolutely nothing during the entire time and that the Dallas police "coached" the official in some defamation conspiracy to prevent him from winning the tournament. Please.

The truth is more likely that after a long flight and lots of caffeine (or whatever), he let fatigue and testosterone get to him, shot off his mouth one too many times and when he was thrown out, called the police whining with some fabricated story that he was assaulted. He has probably even convinced himself (almost) that it happened that way.

Grow up.

The CPL is the one at fault here.. The story is apparently TRUE, and there is apparently a police report to back it up. For the inside scoop on the actual incident...straight from the fingers of the man that was allegedly assaulted you can look here:
http://rav.q3aclans.com/news.htm


For the gamers.com take on the issue...go here:
http://www.gamers.com/news/500645

The open letter from the CPL to gamers.com seems to be a childish attempt to swing control of the situation as someone on another board put it... Sad. Angel done fucked up this time.

link to gamers.com story about this.

http://www.gamers.com/news/500645

sorry I posted it in the advertising thread, you can nuke that one.

Gah, a pop-up-on-exit ad on that page.

"...we are hopeful that the publication of this untruthful story is not motivated by any ulterior reasons."

Play nice? Gamers.com must know that only Dicks get aHead in life. I mean... look at Rambus! :)

The CPL is jinxed because they're renting office space from Ion Storm.

A ST}RAR A

In fact I got yet another anti-CPL email from Gamers.com just today

Post that bitch! Let the flame throwing begin. :)

yay?