“I hope karma exists”: LoL icon reveals he was “scammed” by NLC org

The Russian jungler says that he agreed to affix Bifrost for the wage that he “clearly acknowledged was the naked minimal wanted to help my household.”

The transfer occurred just a few months into the battle in Ukraine, which made worldwide wire transfers troublesome for Russian residents. Regardless of this, he says Bifrost made “zero effort” throughout the first two months of his contract to determine how one can pay him.

Diamondprox says that he initially offered particulars of a checking account that was “totally related” to the SWIFT international funds system. In keeping with him, Bifrost mentioned that they might not wire the cash to that account, though fellow Russian gamers who performed for Vanir, one other Norwegian group, have been “receiving their salaries” through the use of the identical financial institution.

The Russian participant offered Bifrost with fee alternate options, together with receiving his wage in cryptocurrency, however his solutions stored being turned down.

“The group didn’t present help to me in any manner, though [by then] I had been working for them for 4 months with out pay and I had some essential payments stacked,” he writes.

Diamondprox left Bifrost after the Summer season cut up, during which the staff positioned sixth. On October 3, Bifrost announced three changes to their roster for NLC Aurora Open, the pro-amateur event organized by the NLC on the finish of every yr.

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Diamondprox at MSI 2018, one among many worldwide occasions he has attended

Diamondprox provides that on November 30 he acquired a message from the Bifrost CEO, who mentioned that he was leaving the corporate and that the brand new administration’s level of contact can be offered shortly. Per week later, he acquired one other message, this time from one among Bifrost’s house owners and board members, in regards to the firm’s monetary issues, which could result in chapter.

“They mainly f***ed with me for months, losing my time, making me go into debt with payments stacking as an alternative of in search of another earnings, to only rip-off me like that in the long run, whereas figuring out that they didn’t have the cash to pay,” Diamondprox writers.

Roman ‘D2K’ Lanskoy, who coached Bifrost for a yr, says the group owes €45,000 to gamers and employees members and that repeated guarantees that the overdue charges can be paid have been unfulfilled.

A struggling league

The information of Bifrost’s monetary points additional raises questions on the way forward for the NLC, the best tier of aggressive League of Legends within the UK and the Nordic nations. In November, the NLC introduced that it had no choice however to downscale and change into a non-accredited ERL after failing to hit its partnership targets, blaming the “present market state of affairs”.

On December 14, British group X7 Esports, who even have a staff within the NLC, introduced that it might be closing its doorways as a result of present financial local weather and NLC’s downgrade to a non-accredited ERL.

Diamondprox says that he’s afraid to decide to a staff, particularly after watching his former Gambit teammate Edward ‘Edward’ Abgaryan take care of the identical points whereas enjoying for Greek aspect Olympiacos Alimou. On December 13, the staff was banned from competing within the GLL for failure to fulfill contractual obligations following an investigation by the league and Riot Video games.

“I really hope that karma exists on this world and it’ll harm badly when it strikes,” Diamondprox writes.

“As for myself, I nonetheless like to work on LoL and I don’t wish to let the information I’ve amassed over ten years of professional play go to waste, however I can’t be part of one other org with out taking many precautions now. And if organizations don’t wish to respect these, I’ll most likely preserve streaming or discover one other job.”