cl0ck: So I guess the moral (no pun intended) of this interview is sparks. sparks scammed everyone. He scammed twitch, he scammed everyone who donated to him. He blatantly lied, about taking donations for a flight he very well knew that he was not going to pay for. Then he tells everyone he booked one, but we know that isn't possible/doesn't make sense/is another lie. He sent a lot of mixed messages to people. People were questioning what he was going to do with his donations now that he wasn’t on our team. He re-iterated that he had booked his flight and we know for a fact that he had not. He had a wedding coming up, and we are pretty confident he used that money toward that.

rapha: Which at the end of the day, if he just had been honest I don’t think it’s that big of a deal. It’s just the dancing around and lying, and puppeteering people… that’s what’s fucked up.

cl0ck: The integrity of sparks is in the basement. He would solicit donations, he was streaming 3-4 hours a day, he would cast matches, he would be the premiere streaming link for euro matches that weren’t casted, and all the while he was getting donation and promoting for this trip to QuakeCon for these 1200$ flight that he knew he would never have to pay for. That’s the point of this interview. Figured it was time to tell everyone now that it is all over. Really messed up stuff.

rapha, ZeRo4: Yeah.

rapha: And I mean, to add on top of that. A couple of weeks after he left our team, we were playing duel and I asked him “Hey, all this money that you bannered and said is for your trip” – because he was saying, guys I’m not sure I’m going to go now, because I don’t have a team and I’m not sure I’ll be able to get enough people together to play with… which is understandable. So he was “I’m not sure I’m going to go now”. I specifically asked just thinking about the big picture “Hey, if you can’t go, and you set a goal for something to do that, are you going to give the donations back. Are you going you send the donations back to these people?”. fazz and I have talked about that, because fazz had even donated to him specifically for that purpose.

cl0ck: I did too. We all did.

rapha: So I asked him, and he is like “Where do you get off man? How do you dare ask me that question? Why does it even concern you?”. And I’m like “I’m not asking just for me, I’m asking for a lot of people. I’m just curious. What are you going to do?”.

cl0ck: Shane asked him “What are you going to do now that you’re not going to QuakeCon. Are you going yo give the donation back?”. And sparks just basically exploited on him, completely dancing around the question, getting kind of passive aggressive, transferring the question back on him.

ZeRo4: It’s the kind of answer you expect from someone with a lack of integrity in what they’re doing.

rapha: Honestly there’s even more that goes to it, but to keep it short let’s just say he kept expanding lies upon lies and then Brick’s team with psygib made a big change to pick up him and effortless. Not even two days after they’d been practicing together he made up some lies again. Cause he said on stream a few days before that he’s self employed, and his excuse now is “I can’t go to QuakeCon because I got a raise at work”.

cl0ck: And he can’t go anymore… He was boasting about how he is his own boss, and he owns his IT company…

rapha: It does not add up.

cl0ck: People were asking, how can he play all day, how does he stream all day, don’t you have work? And his number one response was “I own my business, I can work whenever I want”, and then all of a sudden when he’s asked about going to QuakeCon it’s “Oh yeah, I already booked my flight but it’s so unfortunate I just got a raise at work and I can’t go anymore”. So it’s just another lie we catch him in. And on top of it, he just obviously did not get a ticket. It’s just nuts.

cl0ck So between everything that happened with BREAK, with whaz leaving and joining them.. I'm not going to lie we were pretty demoralized. We decided that as much as it would effect our chances of placing well- we weren't going to scrim them or practice against them leading up to the event. If they did this to us, we are not going to give them their only chance to practice and to play competitive. We shifted our attention and strategy for QuakeCon at that point. It went from wanting (and knowing we could) win the Tri-Masters to making sure BREAK didn't, and making sure they wouldn't walk away with any prize winnings either. We focused on doing what we could to ensure Shane would win duel.

ZeRo4: We knew coming into the event that we were probably not going to win TDM, try our best to do well in win CTF, but Shane would win the duel. We came here 100% supporting Shane, because we knew he was one of the best 1v1 players in the world, and he had a good chance to win. And everything else was gravy. And we are good friends with linkin, toxic, winz and Zyrinx, and fazz, and noctis, and all the top euros, and if they took it we would be way more happy than seeing BREAK win after what they did to us.

cl0ck: : We just wanted to make sure BREAK would not. We knew that those are guys who thrive on consistent practice and playing a lot to stay at the top of their game. We knew if we took that away from them, their odds of winning would be greatly reduced. That’s all we wanted this year. We wanted to support Shane, make sure we could enable him to duel and win, and do what we could to limit BREAK's chances at winning anything.