Gravity General Manager Recounts Interactions with Renegades Co-owner

Speaking to GameSpot, Team Gravity General Manager Jake Fyfe claimed that Renegades co-owner Chris Badawi attempted to influence their roster during conversations around acquiring an ownership stake in the team. Fyfe also believes Badawi implied to him that he was planning on acquiring Diego "Quas" Ruiz from Team Liquid and attempted to approach Johnny "Altec" Ru while the player was under contract.

Fyfe's statement is as follows:

"Back when Chris first entered into our lives, he was trying to buy equity off Gravity. He wanted 50 percent. Every weekend he would come into the LCS lounge and pull me aside and try to convince me about all the big things he had for Gravity. He pretty much tried to get into my head to convince Davis [Editor’s Note: Davis Vague, Gravity Owner] to sell equity. He was also trying to convince me to do really weird things. For example, early into the split, he wanted Saint to be coach. Then he wanted to throw Thinkcard in as jungler [Fyfe later clarified with GameSpot that it might have been current Renegades jungler Crumbz, not Thinkcard]. He was thinking about roster changes before he even bought equity. He was trying to switch a lot of our team dynamic up.

Anyway, after Davis formally declined him, he began calling me up and saying he was working with Loco [Yoonsup "Locodoco" Choi, TSM coach]. Then one day he called and he said he got backstabbed by everyone. He didn’t understand why. He thinks everyone is out to get him.

He did mention very early on to me that he’s making a team with Keith, Crumbz, Alex Ich, and this was really early on. This was before Keith subbed for Piglet in the spring.

Further down the road, I caught up with him when TDK [Team Dragon Knights] got in since he had minor ownership of TDK. He asked me if I wanted to catch up and he called me while I was at the airport. He was talking about Quas.

This is the exact sentence he used: “Yeah, if Quas is still on the team…” I was asking about how individual members of his roster was doing, and he claimed RF Legendary was a weak point. That was when he made his off-handed remarks about Quas for top-lane. He didn’t say he was poaching Quas, but he indirectly hinted that he was going to go for him.

Additionally, he contacted Altec while under contract with Winterfox to scrim with an early iteration of Misfits. He never explicitly asked Altec to join, but just to scrim. I believe that this was an attempt to poach him if he agreed to start scrimming with him.

When we talk on voice [chat], you get a very deep understanding of how he works. Everything he says you feel like there’s an ulterior motive and nothing is genuine. He's very good at cleaning up his tracks, and is always pushing to meet in person or chat over voice where nothing can be logged."

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