PrimoDulce

To start, everyone was pressured over the weekend to sign while legal counsel wasn't available. Then comes the contract which is 35 pages long, filled with recursive company-favored legal clauses. For reference, most contracts are 5 pages or less.

Next, the contract is completely lacking in written player protections, buyout clauses, roster rules, hard numbers for commitments (hours required of you), and any kind of performance-based reward/incentive.

What the contract does make abundantly clear is the player has no rights and ESA completely owns you and your brand for the signed term. The best the contract offers is 'ESA will consider discussion' but nothing concrete.

After experiencing arbitrary moderation of rules in their qualifier, no guarantees in the contract is a huge red flag. For context, every APEX tournament holds similar roster rules for competition: 2/3 of the original roster is required for a team to maintain its status.

When we changed our third player in E-Series quals, we lost our qualification spot from winning week one AND all of our cumulative points from that week. Nowhere in the rules are either of these stated as penalties for changing one player.

I bring this up because if that's my experience in the qualifier, I feel like I'd be crazy to legally bind myself to an organization that's already burned me twice. Again, the contract makes no assurances when it comes to player protection.