leader of esp here.
i joined and took over the roster along with a few of the members that played in the previous season to try and build a team worthy of getting to esea-p or even invite.
ESEA has a rule where you need 2 members from the previous roster for the first 3/4 matches. one player last sunday for our nuke match that played last season could not make it so i looked for members who played last season and flex had played 8 matches and a few of the old members vouched for him and said he was good. i then was told about how he competes in crossfire and got to play in china etc. so i had no reason to question his legitimacy. everything was very rushed and we only needed him to play 2 matches we got him on the roster without even scrimming with him and i even paid his entry fee.
(one reason for no scrimming/practice with him is because our IGL Kwong is banned for a week for arguing with lpkane about the recruitment ad in a thread.. fackin Kwong.)
anyways just wanted to come on here to say that none of us had any idea he was cheating and absolutely no one on our team would ever intentionally do something like that.
also clarification on the "ironic" team name.. :p i created esp then known as extra sensory perception in 1.6 in 2003 and i have used the name off and on for years. the most recent time i used the name was in 2012 for a shootmania team i played with at pax prime, after winning that we were picked up by epsilon esports.
this is all a shitty situation for us but we are going to keep our roster going with a 1-2 record in main and hopefully grind out the rest of the season and make it to playoffs.