Team Heretics, the new re-name of the LEC tournament that has just acquired the right to participate, is immediately entangled in money controversies with employees.
Yesterday, as soon as it was officially announced to buy a place to attend the European League of Legends LEC tournament from Misfits Gaming, Team Heretics was immediately accused by many people of “spoofing money”, not paying employees.
The first person to criticize Team Heretics was Maciej Kolek, an Esports photographer currently working for LEC, Fnatic, BLAST and ESL who accused Heretics of illegally using his photos. without paying or even crediting the source.
“With Team Heretics entering the LEC, maybe they will pay for some of the photos they stole from me. I really don’t understand when these people choose to go to court instead of paying me what I deserve.” – Maciej Kolek exasperated.
Not stopping there, Tyler ‘Foxie’ Lowton – a Valorant player who played for a year in the 2021-2022 season with Heretics also accused the organization of not paying the contract termination fee for the guy.
Team heretics have the money for LEC but couldn’t pay me my termination fee, this is crazy.
— XL FoxieGG (@Foxie_GG) July 26, 2022
“Team Heretics has the money to buy the LEC slot, but no money to pay my termination fee, which is crazy.” – Foxie wrote on his personal Twitter. More importantly, Heretics creator and co-owner Arnau Vidal also had a fierce controversy with this player right in the article. However, he immediately deleted his comments after Foxie released irrefutable evidence of the player’s ‘fuck’.
The lack of transparency in the issue of compensation is one of the existing problems of any sport, not just Esports. The fact that Team Heretics has not yet hit a drama like this will greatly affect the image of the team in general and the reputation of the LEC tournament in particular. Hopefully, Team Heretics can settle their controversies well before the LEC tournament starts and worse, before Riot Games officially gets involved in this drama.