TonTons leaving the PSP

[frobinson]

http://www.pbnation.com/showthread.php?t=4032100

What do people make of this? Personally, I think it's a massive shame. I really enjoyed watching their games and really wanted to watch them play at Cup! I do wonder how much it had to do with the whole 352FPS business but I reckon it's probably more to do with how difficult, logistically it must be for them in comparison to American teams.

 

[lettucecheesecake]

It's probably the money side of things but it doesn't help their reputation after the shenanigans they pulled off last round

 

[frobinson]

It's probably the money side of things but it doesn't help their reputation after the shenanigans they pulled off last round

Agreed. Some of the comments in the PBN are quite interesting. It would seem that Dye didn't quite back them up the same as they did to CEP who had a gun shooting +400. Apparently Dye are the majority owner of the PSP too, so you got to wonder if anything was said behind closed doors. But yes, it must of cost them a lot to go over there, compete and be competitive.

 

[Dave284]

I'm sure the team managers, sponsors and players had worked the budget out long in advance to committing to the series. Weren't they rolling a little shallow roster wise last event? Maybe player drop offs. However, it would cost an absolute bomb for Dye (as their main sponsor) to of supported them this season. I wouldn't be surprised if the backing was pulled, but would of expected them to of seen the season out. just thinking out loud, but maybe Dye had a deal in place where they needed to be in Champ's to have the same level of backing they had all season. I know that scorpions millano needed to secure promotion to be able to play world cup

Shame.

 

[frobinson]

I'm sure the team managers, sponsors and players had worked the budget out long in advance to committing to the series. Weren't they rolling a little shallow roster wise last event? Maybe player drop offs. However, it would cost an absolute bomb for Dye (as their main sponsor) to of supported them this season. I wouldn't be surprised if the backing was pulled, but would of expected them to of seen the season out. just thinking out loud, but maybe Dye had a deal in place where they needed to be in Champ's to have the same level of backing they had all season. I know that scorpions millano needed to secure promotion to be able to play world cup

Shame.

you raise a valid point. I wonder if that was part of it. And yeah, apparently they ran with a 6 man roster at the last PSP, which obviously left them a little screwed after the gun incident because one of their players got a 3 match ban if I remember rightly. So they just had to run the same 5 for the remainder of the event. That does sound pretty hard going, so you can't really blame them if they'd just had enough!

 

[frobinson]

Tonton World Cup Press release.

In order to avoid any confusion, Tonton will not compete the Orlando World Cup for financial reason*.
The team is very disappointed .We have put a lot of efforts and money this year to play the PSP and we feel frustrated.
I heard Matt Marshall to speak about a possible redemption by competing in Orlando but we just did in Paris Chantilly by finishing 2nd of the event and winning the Millennium series in CPL front of teams like Art Chaos, Edmonton Impact, Houston Heat, Los Angeles Infamous, London Nexus, Polars Bears, Frankfurt Syndicate..
On the top of that we are EPBF European Champions for a 2nd time in a row and accessory French Champions as well.
Regarding the PSP sanction after the riverside incident, we took note of it but we can not accept it.
We believe we have been strongly already penalized at the event by not been able to play the Challenger final. We lost money and our spot in the pro category. We will not argue about it. We are entire responsible and we have not been professional enough and we have no excuses.
But we can not accept that the PSP is considering that “one or more members of the team willfully took the field with intention of playing the game while knowing their markers were in excess of allowable speed limits” especially the one which shoot at 352 fps.
By being myself with the tech guys and PSP officials, they admit the gun had an oring problem in the regulator Hyper 3.
PSP knew we had stock gun and no intention to cheat.
So we believe the sanction of unsportsmanlike behavior is disproportionate and we still dot not know why they took that sanction.
Furthermore, we are surprised by some post of important PSP-SMP board members/partners which wrote on forums some “bizarre” comments like :
“There was nothing wrong with any oring. I know because I was there and personally held the equipment, including the regulator assembly, and personally talked to the tech.”
“But I think the Tontons player entered the field knowing they were shooting hot because I spoke with the Tontons player and who said they entered the field knowing they were shooting hot.”
This lies generate for sure one important things .
Until these people apologizes for their lies, tontons will not compete in the PSP

Anyway, we had an incredible successful year and I take the opportunity to thanks all the players: Loic, Axel, Frank, Sebban, Karl, sushi, Seb and Pascal The coach. They are incredible players. The best guys I had the pleasure to play with the best possible spirit.
I also would like to thanks ours sponsors: DYE, Projet K, Supairball, Virtue, Safer and Xpaint
Fabrice Colombo alias Tavarez

*some sponsors did not fulfill their engagement and we are running out of cash