After Friday’s chaos over the immediate removal of James “2GD” Harding as the host of the Shanghai Major, Valve CEO Gabe Newell made a post on Reddit offering a short summary of the decision. The only problem was this was not a statement, but rather an extremely disconnected response on the current matter. Harding responded in turn calling Gabe an ass, and of course the community was up in arms.
Fortunately Gabe’s opinion of James was not the only announcement he made. He also told Reddit that the entire production crew had been fired after continuous problems with the production, which essentially was extremely poor for a $3 million tournament. Harding took the mature response and slept on it before releasing his 16 page statement entering an extremely personal account of Dota 2, Valve and hosting previous events.
Before we get into the thick of things, allow me to take some time to explain a few important details which began with the firing of James Harding, and ended with the entire production team being fired. The production was an absolute mess from internet drops, sound issues and just general production mishaps. In the video below you can in fact hear one of the production managers, we can only assume, screaming at an employee in the background.
Other’s transcribed the screaming at the end to be along the lines of “ANSWER ME, ANSWER ME,” but as I mentioned it is rather unclear. If it wasn’t clear yet that the production team was a major issue, Chinese translator Bonnie put out a Tweet detailing her experience. It’s an extremely long Tweet, but to sum it up: Bonnie was hired as the translator but instead was used as a middle man and in turn took over production acting as the direct link between the production team and the hosts/casters.
source by: http://www.lazygamer.net/esports/james-assgabe-newell/
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