Sources: Falcons Force Is A Classic Case Of Conflict Of Interest
The hypocritical Esports World Cup—supposedly staged for Falcons Esports to win the team title—it's not a surprise that the Falcons Force project also suffers a conflict of interest.
On September 15th, the months long process of finding the talents to represent Falcons Force, the academy team of Team Falcons CS2 Division, were announced.
What started out as a noble pursuit of fairness and talent, and as to the actions mentioned by the coach for Falcons Force Niels Christian “NaToSaphiX” Sillassen. He wrote detailed personalized feedback to players attending the trials, but his noble effort and good intentions would end up as one of the most classic esports exercises of the last decade, a conflict of interest.
The tryout process had three phases, and it started with about 70 talents. After the month-long process NaToSaphiX and Falcons Force presented their starting 5 roster on September 15th:
Sources close to the process have said that it is no coincidence that the starting four out of the five players are a part of NEEVE.PRO Agency, which coincidentally also is the agency representing NaToSaphiX.
NaToSaphiX sent out the trial invites on July 29th, and the first tryouts started between the 4th and 6th of August per sources. The four players signed with NEEVE.PRO Agency are:
Olaie, IGL, who was announced twice, first on July 22nd and again on September 14th.
veno, riffler, who was announced on September 8th.
grecu, AWP, who was announced on August 8th.
clockzi, who was announced on August 5th.
The sources confirmed that Niels Christian “NaToSaphiX” Sillassen is a part-owner of the agency. Furthermore, the sources also confirmed that the general manager of Falcons Esports Jordan Savelli knew of this ownership and gave his approval of NaToSaphiX being a part-owner of NEEVE.PRO Agency.
The conflict of interest of NaToSaphiX being a part-owner of an agency has led to four out of the five players of Falcons Force have been signed during the trial phase, boosting revenue for the NEEVE.PRO Agency.
A typical agency takes between 5-15% of the players salary as a compensation for the services they provide, this means that NaToSaphiX and NEEVE.PRO Agency have created a bigger revenue for the agency through Falcons Esports and the salary they pay to the players, of whom NaToSaphiX had full control of, when it came to who they signed.