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We all know how annoying it gets when someone owes you a lot of money but are least bothered about providing you the payment on time and you have to constantly nudge them about it, well this feeling gets worse when the person who owes you money is a large company/ organization and they keeping pushing the payment dates backwards.

This problem is quite major in the esports scene because most of the talents working in the scene are freelancers. The above mentioned problem is rather very noticeable in the CS:GO scene because all the talents involved are freelancers.

Famous caster and commentator Vince ‘OnFireVince’ Hill expressed his concerns online on October 24, he alleged that he is still owed payment from over two months ago, and that he has been constantly ignored even after reaching out to the people responsible for it multiple times.

Fellow caster under the Room On Fire team, Jason ‘moses’ O’Toole replied to Vince saying that he himself was tired of handling it internally, and may resort to publicly calling out these organizations, but Vince warned of the dangers of calling big organizations out publicly. He later acknowledged in a follow-up video that his tweet might have put him in a really bad spot. Regardless, Vince seemed fearless and in his video he added and pointed out how frequently this happens in the scene. “Event after event after event. This isn’t the first time it’s happened, it isn’t even the tenth time it’s happened. It happens all the time to all of us.” This claim, that payment delays happen to multiple casters and talents at the very tops of their games was backed up by a plethora of talents replying to his original tweet with their own tales of woe regarding late payments.

Although, none of the talents decided to name any of the organizations or organizers that were involved in late payment issues, it is only a matter of time before the frustration of late payments push the casters and talents to resort to public call-outs unless the issues are resolved with haste.