LBZS's coach stole more than $50,000 from players
Moon Studio co-founder Moon "Moon" Lim posted a letter on her Twitter page revealing that the LBZS's coach stole more than $50,000 from players.
Moon "Moon" Lim:
Actually, i really do not want to shame him, but i felt its time that i let the dota community and pro players know about this matter. Please kindly do not trust this guy, with reference. His name is Huang Hongzhan.
Do you remember, during China Dota2 Pro Cup organized by IMBATV, this event is an online and offline event, LBZS was still pretty new team, and they won the qualifiers and played vs many tier1 teams online. There was even like a speculation that they swapped players, BUT, its not true, they played the tournament with Webcam, and IMBATV can inspect the video footage.
And anyway, they went to LAN, and the event became an offline event, and that was the time, AH XIANG was brought into the team as a coach with motive to help the team. So when ah xiang at the lan, he wanted LBZS to play the heros he drafted, and somehow because of that, was the reason of poor performance. Anyway the team accepted their failure in some matches, and went back to the bootcamp after the event.
So, event ended, DPC ended, Moon Studio Tournament ended as well, Ah Xiang went back to his hometown, left his clothes and belongings at the bootcamp acting as if he was going to return back. But he did not, and that time the team was very short of funds, and they called Perfect World, IMBATV and Moon Studio about their prize money. All of them replied that they already distributed the prize money since long ago.
Then they started to ask Ah Xiang, and Xiang admitted that he took all the prize money (more than 50k USD). And he even borrowed money from MS, and EX before he made his way back to his hometown. LBZS players are really upset. They tried to get back their money since April 2021, (Xiang took from them since their event from the Lan).
So Huang Hongzhan 黄洪霑 , If you are reading this, Please kindly return all the money that you took from the players, And for all pro players, please take note and do not accept any offers from him, and also do not lend any money to him if he approaches you. Thank you.
LBZS has been around since September 2020. During that time, they won just over $100,000 in prize money. The team spent their last DPC season in the lower division of the Chinese league, where they finished in 2nd place. Next season, the team should start in the upper division.