Several eSports teams including Virtus.Pro, Hellraisers and forZe eSports have issued a statement accusing Winstrike of being unprofessional and fraudulent. Representatives of the teams claim that the holding company has repeatedly delayed payments on the contracts signed with them.
For example, in early 2020 Winstrike agreed with forZe eSports to buy one of the lineups. A contract was signed that required Winstrike to pay the transfer fee at the end of February. However, after the expiration of this period, the company first offered to reduce the amount of the deal, and then stopped contacting at all. ForZe is currently planning to take the matter to court. Other teams that have made deals with Winstrike to sell lineups or individual players have faced similar problems.
The company's CEO has already commented on this statement. He believed that contractual payment amounts and timing were confidential and should not be a matter of public record. The teams that signed the statement, in turn, claim that they did not want to bring the issue to a general discussion and were forced to do so only because of Winstrike's constant dragging out of deadlines. They hope that now publicizing the situation and the influence of the cybersports community will help solve the problem.
