Alright I'd like to start off and defend my actions / my team:

I would like to start by clarifying a few things in regards to the modmail I sent to my team. I worded it in pretty much the worst way possible, and still maintain that Fronj DID NOT offer ClayRocks a callup. As far as I was aware, I knew that Fronj had talked to clay, but did not know whether or not a callup offer was made.

The miswording in the modmail was due to me assuming that Fronj had probably made a callup offer, and I was relying on any potential offers being brought to light by Fronj / the commissioners (if Fronj had reported a callup) to determine if the callup was legitimate. In hindsight it was a poor decision to not speak with Fronj directly, as he would likely try to avoid calling me out if he had made an offer to Clay. In fact the night of the callup, I went to PrivateMajor on Steam, and asked if there was anything wrong with the callup, would it be reported to me. When it went through, I figured everything was done legally.

At the time of the modmail post, I was also under the impression from the following rule:

"If a player has rejected being called up to a team, the Captain or Vice-Captain of the team should inform the commissioners so they can tag that player as being ineligible for MLTP for Season 8."

that if Fronj had not reported any potential callups, that clay would still be eligible for callup to MLTP. This explains my stating that I hoped Fronj didn't say anything (if he had made an offer), and my asking ash to stay quiet on the matter.

Bull has pointed out to me that I “conveniently” left out the first part of the rule that states:

“NLTP players can reject being signed onto an MLTP team if they think its in their best interest (if you are filling a bench role it might be better to stay NLTP for example). But if they reject it once, they will be ineligible to play MLTP for the entirety of the season. This is to prevent players picking and choosing which MLTP team they want to go to.”

Since ClayRocks never rejected any offer to join another team, his callup was made completely legally and in accordance with the rules.

With all that in mind, I'd also like to take responsibility that my actions in hiding this from the commissioners, and repeatedly denying it was wrong of me, and that I understand a punishment directed towards me for those actions.

Once again I maintain that ClayRocks did nothing wrong in this situation, and the callup of him was made legally. I have personally talked to Fronj, and ClayRocks, and both confirmed to me that no official offer was made. Myself and my teammates have tried countless times to relay this information to commissioners, including vocally while talking to them, and by sending private messages, but did not receive acknowledgement.

Here is an excerpt from modmail:

http://gyazo.com/facd5421d3fbf6d9fa4c3eacc2529b20

“I never asked him to be part of my team” - Fronj “He(clay) did not specifically say "I do not want to join your team"” - Fronj

I think the punishments given out are absurd, considering that no rules are broken, and the callup was made completely legally. I can understand a penalty against myself for my poorly worded modmail, but even then anything more than a censure is a stretch…

In my opinion, the rules need to be changed if they want to prevent something like this happening again, and it's unfair to retroactively punish a team that didn’t do anything wrong.

I am sorry to my team that I let them down, and apologize for tarnishing what would have otherwise been a good season.

tl;dr: The callup of ClayRocks did not break any rules, no rules were intended to be broken by me / my team, still getting punished in the highest degree possible.

If anybody has any questions for me or arguments on why clay should have been kicked out, let me know and I'll try to provide my thoughts.