Hello Moe, could you please give us a little background as to who you are?

Hello everyone, I'm Moe Assad I have been playing source professionally for the past 4 1/2 years.

What teams have you recently been involved with?

My most recent team was the San Francisco OPTX, a CGS franchise.

Its public information that you feel quite a bit went wrong with the CEVO Alienware tournament, could you please explain specifically what happened?

I'm going to be plain and honest about CEVO and Alienware. I believe that iGames (the people who ran the tournament) and mainly Ferguson - the only admin for the whole tournament - just had no idea what they were doing. That's right, over 15k in prize money with only one admin. There are so many details I can go into about how flawed the rules were, mainly because the rules were all meant for 1.6 and as anyone knows 1.6 and source are in many ways different.

What i don't understand is how Alienware would put this much money up for grabs in an online tournament, maybe they thought that CEVO, being the respected league it is, would be willing to help run it smoothly, but i can tell you first hand that CEVO did absolutely nothing to help the tournament. Celone himself told me "we cant do anything" about any rules or dispute, and that it was all up to the iGames guy who had no clue and openly admitted to having no clue about how to run the tourney.

How do you feel about the CEVO ACS system used in the tournament?

As far as how I feel about CEVO and there anti-cheat system: I think I made it pretty clear in my forum posts. I believe 100% in what I wrote, I feel that there are so many ways around CEVO's anti-cheat system, and that CEVO (Plitt especially) are ignorant about that fact.

Putting aside your feelings regarding that particular tournament, what is your assessment of the CEVO league itself? Tell us more about the situation surrounding your unpaid CEVO-Pro prize money.

Without CEVO, eSports wouldn't be where it is today, but like any other league it has flaws. For example, as many people have seen or heard I recently won CEVO-Pro with team Cyber Revolution about a week before Alienware started. Basically I sent in my forms with 2 other guys on the team (chewbacca, dazed), while clown and frozt sent in the forms the night we won. So naturally they got their money first.

Around that time is when the whole Alienware thing blew up.That pretty much put a hold on all the prize winnings, so about 2 1/2 weeks after we won CEVO-Pro, dazed and I entered a public IRC channel and asked Celone if CEVO had received our forms, and he assured us that they have all our paper work and are processing them. More time goes by and all of a sudden dazed receives his money 3 weeks after winning CEVO-P, after having a "talk" with Plitt.

So I was beginning to get frustrated and started hearing rumors that CEVO isn't going to pay me my money. So I connect to the CEVO vent and request to talk to Plitt. I get dragged down to the admins channel where it was Plitt and around 6 other admins sitting in vent as if to "scare me" and Plitt starts asking how he could help. I tell him my problem and he goes on to say that there was probably a mix up in the paperwork and for me to resend it, I wasn't buying his "mix up" talk but I told him I would resend my information.

So when you told him you weren't buying this mix up, but that you would resend the information what happened then?

I have been waiting 8 days since I last sent in my forms and received the confirmation that it has been processed. I connected to the CEVO vent and asked to talk to the head of accounting, Plitt again drags me down this time with 2 other admins in the channel, and says "how can I help you". I ask him if he knows anyone that can help me with my situation, and he says "I'm the only one who knows whats going on, I talk to accounting every day". I then ask him "Then do you know if any checks are going out?". He replied "yep, checks are going out, but not yours".

He went on to tell me that he has my check ready but he has not nor does he have any intentions on signing off on it, I told him if this is really how he wants to play it then I'm OK with that. I went on to say, "if you weren't bothered by anything I said about CEVO then you wouldn't of gone this far". So here I am a month after winning CEVO-p with no prize winnings of any kind.

In my eyes CEVO shouldn't be able to do these kinds of things especially when I paid to be in the league, but Plitt sees it differently. He has told me and I quote "we can do what ever we want to do". Now the $700+ dollars doesn't mean that much, but I wanted everyone in eSports and anyone who is a veteran or a rookie of CEVO to be weary before entering a league that has a leader running his league like what most would call a dictatorship.

Did Plitt or any other CEVO admin give you any reason as to why you wouldn't be receiving your check?

He stated that the only reason they haven't given me my money is because of the opinion I expressed publically about CEVO and CMN.

Do you think that clown and devour being caught cheating in the Alienware tournament could have violated any terms and conditions that CEVO has which prevents you from getting your winnings from CEVO-Pro?

I think clown and devour getting caught cheating in the Alienware tournament shouldn't effect the past in anyway. Bottom line, prior to that tournament I had won CEVO-Pro meaning I am entitled to the prize regardless if anyone got caught cheating. Also clown received his money before he was caught cheating, and I don't think CEVO should of denied him his money afterwards either.

Now after all the issues that CEVO has had with you not getting your check, and the Alienware tournament, does this open the door for a league like CAL to get its luster back?

CAL is a league that I will be thankful for. Other leagues should be looking at CAL as for guidelines on how a league should be ran, but I don't think CAL or any other free league would really make a comeback unless CPL comes back. As for other leagues, I think the ESEA league looks very promising I have believed in ESEA anti-cheat for a long time and know a lot of people behind the scenes.

Any closing statements that you have Moe?

I just wanted to say thank you to all the people who stuck by clown and devour, and thank you to all the supporters who have been fans of all the teams I been on throughout my career, and a special thanks to the GotFrag staff for publishing this story, and finally to the readers and fans for listening to me.