TSM and GodLike Esports engage in a war of words over BGMI player ‘Shadow’
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GodLike Esports-TSM controversy explained
In an unfortunate event, the BGMI eSports scenario in India has been getting questioned by international eSports personalities over the recent GodLike Esports-TSM (Team Solomid) India controversy regarding the player ‘Shadow’ who recently joined the former organization.
TSM is a global and quite popular eSports organization that features rosters in several games. The reputed organization entered India during the era of PUBG Mobile by partnering up with Entity Gaming. However, the ties were broken when the game was banned in the country. TSM has since gone solo to field their BGMI roster in the country.
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BGMI: GodLike Esports and TSM controversy explained
GodLike Esports recently added a new member to their roster. While all the previous additions were hailed by the community, the recent player has drawn controversy. Arjun “SHADOW” Mandhalkar was signed by the homegrown eSports organization recently and the player has also been registered to play the upcoming NODWIN LAN tournament.
However, TSM India claimed that their player ‘Shadow’ was poached. In the eSports scenario, organizations are liable to ask the current organizations of a certain player to loan out the player or other issues for tournaments. However, Team Solomid alleged GodLike Esports of signing ‘Shadow’ officially without even contacting them.
What did TSM say?
Team Solomid India claimed that BGMI player ‘Shadow’ is making false allegations just because he got benched. Moreover, GodLike Esports did not give a loan agreement as other professional teams do. Jeff “SuiJeneris” Chau, the Director of TSM Mobile also spoke up on the controversial matter by releasing some personal Whatsapp chats of him and Shadow.
"Poaching/tampering is a dangerous and dishonest practice—it harms players, orgs, and turns good fans on each other"
Mr. Jeff states that ‘Shadow’ is confused about being ‘loaned’ and ‘released’ for free. Moreover, he also mentioned that the player negotiations should be done between the organizations but BGMI player ‘Shadow’ told him that GodLike Esports is not ready to have the ‘buyout’ talks.
What did GodLike Esports say?
GodLike Esports, owned by Chetan “Kronten” Chandgude states that Shadow approached their organization after sending a termination letter to his current organization. Following this, all legal procedures were maintained when the player was signed officially.
They have also mentioned that GodLike Esports now plans to file a criminal case as well as a civil case against the people who are releasing private chats and making defamatory statements against GodLike and also against one of the players who is openly abusing the organization and ‘Shadow’ on social media platforms.
BGMI player ‘Shadow’ only commented that he is having toxic relations with his current organization (TSM) and asking his fans for support in this worsening situation. Fans, on the other hand, are divided on this controversial issue where some are speaking on behalf of GodLike whereas others side with TSM.
With an upcoming LAN event of BGMI hosted by NODWIN Gaming that is going to be broadcasted on television for the first time, it is unfortunate to see reputed eSports organizations breaking into an agreement with both claiming to take legal action against each other.
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Anushka Mohanta
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