ex-Denial set to sign with ATK

4-4-2019 12:07

The team formerly playing for Denial will sign with ATK, a South African organization.

South Africa's top team, previously in Bravado and Denial, are now set to sign with ATK, a local organization based out of Cape Town.

Sonic & co. will play under the ATK banner

The team, which was well taken care of by Denial during their tenure in the organization according to several players, ultimately could not come to terms during contract negotiations and instead found another option in ATK.

The South African side are now set to fly to Cape Town, where they will sign their new contracts before continuing their journey in North America to play ESEA MDL Season 31 and ECS Season 7 Week 3.

Roberto "⁠blackpoisoN⁠" Dall'Occo stated the following:

"We were still negotiating with Denial and couldn’t come to an agreement on all the terms. No bad blood between us, was just better for both parties and ATK gave us an offer that was better suited to our needs."

ATK's roster is:

Johnny "⁠JT⁠" Theodosiou
Rhys "⁠Fadey⁠" Armstrong
Aran "⁠Sonic⁠" Groesbeek
Roberto "⁠blackpoisoN⁠" Dall'Occo
Dominic "⁠Domsterr⁠" Sampaio

Tiaan "⁠T.c⁠" Coertzen (coach)

2019-04-04 12:08

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Isnt Denial the "We are not paying the players" org?

2019-04-04 12:10

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Yupp

2019-04-04 12:14

they have a new owner who is just as shitty as the old one but does pay players, but yeah thats the org

Yeah but they’re owned by a different guy now who supposedly is better

2019-04-04 12:15

You finally got it, congrats mr unluko

2019-04-04 12:18

Thx

2019-04-04 12:20

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Congratulations!

2019-04-04 12:46

now you should be calledo luko. Luko maluko

2019-04-04 13:36

Finally you got #1! Congrats

2019-04-04 13:02

congrats mr. F5

2019-04-04 13:08

So denial picked these guys up recently then released them why???

2019-04-04 13:46

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The players are just not being payed really anything. They weren't payed anything till the new owner. ATK has a good salary Sonic said on twitter compared to Denial.

2019-04-04 15:37

Grats unlucko

2019-04-04 14:40

Snake team

if this is snake team then Denial is prehistoric anaconda org lol

2019-04-04 17:32

wow gl

i still dont think its worth to make a news for this guys each month.

2019-04-04 12:09

wow so surprising that denial fell through. so shocked, gl with ATK tho

Denial seems to be a bad org at all, think it's one of the more known orgs losing faster players than any other. Picking up players and losing them within first 6 months.

2019-04-04 12:11

It seems like they are living IN DENIAL YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Lol denial kicked them so fast XD

2019-04-04 12:12

Denial snake org But eunited is worse

2019-04-04 12:13

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whats all the beef about??

people crying because eUnited got the IEM Sydney spot despite them getting 3 out of 5 swole patrol players so it makes sense but people cry because it's Swag that's left out xd

for me at least its the fact that they lost so they just bought the majority of the roster and got the spot

2019-04-04 12:31

plus the players' probs want to play at majors poor swag

Eunited once lost to swole @ the epicenter qualifier w freak cooper marke swag and zellsis, they signed cooper Then they lost again to swole at the iem Sydney qualifier and bought 3 swole players They've been snakes since 2018

2019-04-04 14:22

ex denial signs with bravado in 3, 2....

I donated to give Bravado the opportunity to play in na. They left the org despite having enough funds from the community to a better org and now this? Bunch of snakes

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Except they didn't have enough funds?

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They did, the players decided to leave even thogh having an sponsor who told that he would pay the rest of the goal. But the players decided to leave. The org informed about this.

2019-04-04 12:19

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They only achieved 55% of the goal

2019-04-04 12:39

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"It is important to mention, all players were notified that the campaign was on course to reach its target (at the time sitting at 60% of the fixed goal) as there was a corporate sponsor who was willing to pay in the case of any shortfall (40% of the fixed goal) for the organization in order to ensure the campaign was a success." Read in the Bravado website before.

2019-04-04 12:43

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That's one side of the story. But in eSports, if your organisation needs fans donation to cover expenses and salries, you have a serious problem. The team simply grew faster that the org, as we see a lot. The fact they are from South Africa just make it a bit harder.

2019-04-04 13:06

so why did the players agree to do the fundraising thing in the first place? They even knew it would be successful and only then decided to sign with Denial instead. Of course they have to take good opportunities if they present themselves but I can see why some people don't like them after this, especially if they donated

2019-04-04 13:12

people got their donations back just FYI

2019-04-04 15:01

The frustration isn't about the funds its about the movement of the players every one loves a underdog story and BVD as a brand was just that the boys chopping and changing is whats upsetting people don't get me wrong they good guys and all just for guys not from SA jumping orgs isn't a reflection on the org its a reflection on the team and when BVD gave them the big break and was trying there best with what they had to keep them there that was a repeatable cause now signing with another SA org looks like a bit of a slap in the face of the people that gave them there starts.

2019-04-05 16:23

They probably agreed to the fundraiser because they didn’t think they’d get another org to sign them before they would have to go back to SA. Your donation should have been refunded so I don’t see the problem...

2019-04-04 22:43

didn't know that donations were refunded. you are right that is fair game then

2019-04-05 18:28

and no news about Denial release roster?

2019-04-04 12:17

Just a heads up, the current denial staff are different from pervious iterations that did not pay players. It's a new owner and new management since then. So not being paid probably had nothing to do with it.

Well that was quick. Denial worst org ever????

most like asian roster bad af what's the point of sign an asian irrelevant MDL roster??

2019-04-04 12:25

Weird Asia sucks at cs. They pretty much have multiple players in top10 of every game except cs.

2019-04-04 12:28

they are getting stronger month by month, see how many teams are in the top 100/50 compared to, lets say, 2017 and 2016

2019-04-04 17:18

Damm Denial

2019-04-04 12:47

deniel

2019-04-04 17:36

AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA

2019-04-04 12:48

ATK Girlfriends

the grass is greener on the other side, but the snakes are way bigger also

2019-04-04 13:35

Left a South African org for a NA org now back to some lesser Org in South Africa. Outstanding move.

2019-04-04 13:42

You forgot to add, now going back to NA.

2019-04-05 01:20

im still surprised these 3rd world players are not banned yet, they throw for food all the time, when they are favorites, when they are underdogs they try hard

2019-04-04 14:04