Denial Owner steps down amid accusations of not paying players Skillshot Media \/ Denial EsportsCWL spot from Overtime eSports, had been mounting against the organization. Smith had joined forces with other prominent figures in esports to rebuild the Denial organization in mid-December 2018 after previous management infamously tarnished the Wolfpack brand for numerous controversies related to unpaid salaries. Since taking over, Smith himself has been at the center of criticism, ranging from interactions with the public and firing a graphic designer over innocuous comments, to accusations of players going unpaid for long periods of time. Smith steps down from Denial The executive released a statement saying the organization had \u201cbeen running too fast for [their] own good,\u201d and that Strategic Advisor Jerry Nguyen will now be promoted to Chief Strategy Officer to handle the day-to-day operations. The news of Smith stepping down from his position at Denial come as French esports organization Overtime eSports and former player Nathan \u2018Natshay\u2019 Dupuis alleged that they have gone without payment from previous business deals. Overtime released a statement on May 15 claiming they had yet to be paid for the CWL Pro League spot they dealt to Denial Esports on January 28. Controversy riddled Denial\u2019s Call of Duty squad Even though a team under the Denial banner have played almost a dozen games in the Call of Duty league, Overtime say they \u201care still waiting for a sum of several tens of thousands of euros for the sale of the CWL Pro League spot.\u201d The claims come as a follow up to the May 13 accusations by Natshay in which the former Overtime and Denial member said the North American organization had not paid out player salaries with figures reaching up to $15,000. In the same statement Smith said the debacle with Natshay stemmed from United States law preventing the organization from legally paying the player \u201cdue to existing immigration laws regarding work authorization and visas.\u201d Since then Denial has set up a form to appropriately pay the \u201calleged owed salaries of the player.\u201d Denial Esports will now look to rectify past transgressions with current CEO Patrick \u2018BlackBeardAP\u2019 E. Smith Sr. and CSO Nguyen at the helm. Smith\u2019s statement did not mention the alleged failed payment to Overtime eSports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Denial Owner steps down amid accusations of not paying players Skillshot Media \/ Denial EsportsCWL spot from Overtime eSports, had been mounting against the organization. Smith had joined forces with other prominent figures in esports to rebuild the Denial organization in mid-December 2018 after previous management infamously tarnished the Wolfpack brand for numerous controversies related […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}