Danteh claims some OWL players were paid $150K just to sit on the bench Joe Brady\/BlizzardLA Gladiators DPS Dante \u201cDanteh\u201d Cruz has claimed that select Overwatch League players were being paid up to $150k per year to sit on the bench for their team. During a casual Overwatch stream on February 9, DPS player Danteh claimed that a former teammate of his in the Houston Outlaws was making up to $150,000 to just sit on the bench. The teammate he claims was making the jaw-dropping amount was Support player Daniel \u201cBoink\u201d Pence, who is now an inactive player. The last team he played for was the Outlaws. In the clip, Danteh claimed that Boink was re-signed to the Outlaws for Season 3 of OWL, only to never play an official game. He also went on to suggest Boink didn\u2019t even log on to play Overwatch and practice after the halfway point that year. Meanwhile, Danteh says that Seung-soo \u201cJecse\u201d Lee, another previous Support player for the Outlaws, was only paid $60,000 and was playing every single match of the season. The Outlaws allegedly couldn\u2019t re-sign Jecse because of the cost of re-signing Boink for Season 3. Right before discussing the matter, Danteh jokingly said, \u201cthat was the hardest re-signing ever, on a six-figure contract.\u201d Danteh claims that the only reason why Boink was able to make so much while sitting on the bench was because the Outlaws\u2019 former General Manager, Matt \u201cflame\u201d Rodriguez was offering the contract to him because they were friends. \u201cThat\u2019s actually just bank robbery\u201d the DPS said. \u201cflame literally just robbed a bank. He just gave his friend a six-figure contract that nobody deserves, and just dipped.\u201d He also claims that the contract had a clause that if the team cut Boink out of the Outlaws, he would get a payout from the organization. Both flame and Boink are no longer part of the Outlaws, with flame retiring right as Season 3 started, and Boink when Season 3 ended. It can only be presumed that the reason why Danteh is now comfortable talking about the matters of his former team is because he recently signed with the LA Gladiators for the upcoming Season 6, and is not bound by any restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Danteh claims some OWL players were paid $150K just to sit on the bench Joe Brady\/BlizzardLA Gladiators DPS Dante \u201cDanteh\u201d Cruz has claimed that select Overwatch League players were being paid up to $150k per year to sit on the bench for their team. During a casual Overwatch stream on February 9, DPS player Danteh […]<\/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-66408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66408","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=66408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}