I noticed that PGS picked up Storm as their newest addition. I also noticed that instead of writing in their news that he was kicked due to inactivity from MYM, they wrote that he left MYM. I could understand that, because saying that we kick him for being inactive and then picking him up, would make them look really bad. My biggest problem is the statement they wrote for Storm, and have no doubt here, they did make it for him, they might have taken things he said and build it in, but he didn't write that.

Now to get on to business. I'm not usually one to do these things, and when Lloth first approaches me about Storm I told him that I couldn't tell him what was going on between MYM and Storm, out of courtesy to Storm. You see the fact is that Storm has actually been fired from MYM since April 17th. The reason why we didn't make a news about it before was that Storm had cut all ties to us, including never being on MSN (I later found out he made a new one), and I didn't want to make it public that he was actually fired before I had talked to him and explained to him the reasons why. Since he was never on MSN, we decided to mail him his "pink slip".

It is obvious now that it was not the best to have the news about Storm being fired so late, but I can not go against my own beliefs, and I’d rather have it look strange now that Storm has good ladder accounts while we say we kick him for being inactive, then to have Storm reading on some site, or hearing it second hand that he is fired back in April. 

Ever since last WC3L finals Storm didn't really have any contact to either the management in MYM nor the rest of the players, in fact it is against general policy to fire a player if the rest of the team wishes him to stay, but no one wanted to Storm to stay, the reason being that he was never playing and had cut of all contact with the team.

Now with some background knowledge I will try and explain the last few weeks a little more chronologically. The Monday after the WC3L finals, on my way home, I receive an sms from Lloth, I don’t remember the exact contend, but it is something about he wants me to come online so Storm can talk to me. I was surprised, but also a little happy since this meant Storm started logging on again and I could talk to him, because despite of him being fired and me being really annoyed with him after WC3L finals 10 where I found out he hadn’t practised at all despite of telling me the opposite, I still liked Storm, he was a great guy and we had a lot of fun during season 9.

When I finally come home in the evening I logged on. I didn’t see Storm online though, but the following day I discovered he had made a new MSN account and I had him added and talked to him. I realized that Storm had not just gotten a new MSN account, he had also not looked at his email, so he had no idea he was fired. Hearing this made some of the things Lloth had told me earlier make sense. He had said that Storm told him that MYM had not upheld our end of the contract, more specifically we had stopped paying Storm his salary. It is true the salary stopped when we fired him back in April, I mean, why wouldn’t it? But all other aspect of the contract was being upheld.

I reality Storm was bound by the contract, even after being fired, to not talk about it, but I don't think anyone could blame him for this if he thinks he is being treated poorly. I tried telling Lloth to back off and stop drilling me for answers that I would not give him about this affair, out of courtesy to Storm. I didn’t believe it would be fair to Storm to talk about his situation and how he had behaved to anyone else. Lloth was however not content with not getting the answers, so he went ahead with signing Storm (which he was of course free to do), and then made a news full of holes and, dare I say it: lies. Fact is that Storm was kicked from MYM and that is pretty much it. Lloth's problem is that he is a whore for attention, and making a big scandal out of this, and getting back on the organisation which site have uncovered flaws in his dubious organisation before, was simply to big of a temptation for him, I'm sorry to say to him now that it now ends up biting him in the butt instead, and I'm even more sorry that he forced my hand, making me write this putting Storm out to be a bad guy, which I really don’t think he is, he is just very young.

At this point Storm still has not received his prize money from WSVG. This is however not out of bad will, but simply because the people from WSVG required something from Storm, and since we could not get a hold of him, we could not tell him. We did however tell him what they said once he asked where they were. MYM has no intention of holding back prizemoney and they have not been paid out to us, it is all in Storms hands now.

As a side note to those out there that feels the need to draw parallels to this situation, and to the time Bera left us, I want to make something clear: Bera left us. He said he wanted to go inactive, and at the time I believe it to be completely inactive, but when I saw him joining another team some time later, I realized that it was one of those places where culture and language barriers get in the way. What he had probably meant was that he didn’t want the pressure it is playing for MYM. Since he joined the other team, he has not have any matches where the pressure have been even remotely close to what he would face in just one match playing for one of the most ambitious organisations in the world.