Hello, everyone. First of all, I want to thank every single person who helped volunteer their time & energy to help mold Genesis-II into the wildly successful event that it was, as well as thank each and every person who took a few days out of their lives to attend and support our tournament; we hosted this tournament for each & every individual one of you, and we absolutely could not have done it without you guys. There were bumps in the road to running this tournament, but we overcame pretty much each & every obstacle.
However... some obstacles were harder to overcome than others, and after some extremely difficult and heartbreaking discussion, this is one issue that we felt absolutely had to be shared with the rest of the community. I know that on the surface it "might" look like a personal issue that should've stayed between our crew, but we felt it was our responsibility to bring this out into the open.
To cut to the chase: on the Sunday of Genesis-II, our prize pool, our crew's reputation within the community, and perhaps even our financial future were nearly destroyed by none other than Zelgadis (Trebor Scherer).
As far as I am aware since the crime he committed took place, he has contacted several people and spun a terrific web of lies & misdirection to cover up this act. As responsible members of the community, as difficult as this is, we felt it necessary to state the truth:
As anyone involved with Genesis knows, we were generously provided $6,000 in sponsorship prize money from VTS and his company Sabergaming. On Sunday morning, while in a rush to arrive at the venue, one of our TO's accidentally left the envelop containing the prize money sitting on the mattress in our hotel suite after removing it from our room's safe. The hotel room was locked, with only direct members of DBR still within the hotel room.
After nearly everyone except for Bob$ and his girlfriend had exited the room later that morning, Zelgadis swung by with a friend of his, Clayton, to search for a jacket he left behind the night prior. It was then, in between the time that bob$'s girlfriend let Zelgadis enter the room and the time that she stepped into the bathroom, that Zelgadis concocted the brilliant plan of swiping the envelop containing $6,000 from the bed, and exited the room. After informing his friend Clayton of what he had just stolen from his best friends & crew mates, they both returned to Clayton's home in his truck, removed $200 to keep on their persons while stashing the remaining $5800 in their home, then returned to the venue as if nothing had happened.
...
Upon realizing that the envelop had been left behind, then realizing it was missing after we tore the hotel room apart, we quickly pieced together that Zelgadis was most likely the prime suspect (however ridiculous that seemed to us at the time.) After giving him the benefit of the doubt (he picked it up by accident, he tried bringing it to us but forgot it somewhere on the way to the tournament, etc) we explained to him that we believed he had it.
Our bluntness was met with the most sincere, straight-faced web of absolute bull**** lies that I have EVER witnessed in my entire life. Receiving everything from "I would never do that, I'm part of this crew just the same as you guys" to "I swear on my dead mother's life I did not take that envelop", he lied directly to our faces.
Long story short, we brought everyone involved including Clayton and Zelgadis back to the hotel, where after playing detectives by piecing together the time frame of the morning and cross-referencing cell phone texts, all the while being lied to for TWO SOLID HOURS about how they were innocent, we felt it time to contact the authorities.
Once the police arrived, another 90 minutes of lies and deceit was continued by the both of them while the police took our statements and cross-checked stories...
Finally, upon being confronted with the fact that they may very well face felony charges and prison time for this theft, and that we did not wish to press charges but only wanted to recover the money, Zelgadis admitted in front of the officers and Germ that he did indeed steal the cash. After the both of them were escorted to Clayton's home and brought back to our room, the envelop of prize money was delivered to us.
...You cannot believe just how hard this broke us down. After realizing that a friend we've known for nearly a decade, one of our own crew members, would so recklessly steal from us and nearly ruin us (reputation and financially), after being so directly lied to and misdirected for hours on end, we felt it NECESSARY to inform everyone reading this of the type of person Zelgadis truly is. Additionally, this isn’t what you’d call the first blemish on his record. I’m not going to embellish, but let’s just say that the six grand would *maybe* pay off all the debt that he’s stonewalled on to other people.
To those that know Zelgadis (Trebor), either personally or fleetingly, you may want to seriously consider the position you are in concerning a relationship with him. After being so misled, lied to, and sworn to up & down about this event, I can say with a certainty that we will never be able to believe a word that comes out of his mouth, nor trust him with anything on any kind of scale.
Do with this as you will, Melee Community.
-King Out
However... some obstacles were harder to overcome than others, and after some extremely difficult and heartbreaking discussion, this is one issue that we felt absolutely had to be shared with the rest of the community. I know that on the surface it "might" look like a personal issue that should've stayed between our crew, but we felt it was our responsibility to bring this out into the open.
To cut to the chase: on the Sunday of Genesis-II, our prize pool, our crew's reputation within the community, and perhaps even our financial future were nearly destroyed by none other than Zelgadis (Trebor Scherer).
As far as I am aware since the crime he committed took place, he has contacted several people and spun a terrific web of lies & misdirection to cover up this act. As responsible members of the community, as difficult as this is, we felt it necessary to state the truth:
As anyone involved with Genesis knows, we were generously provided $6,000 in sponsorship prize money from VTS and his company Sabergaming. On Sunday morning, while in a rush to arrive at the venue, one of our TO's accidentally left the envelop containing the prize money sitting on the mattress in our hotel suite after removing it from our room's safe. The hotel room was locked, with only direct members of DBR still within the hotel room.
After nearly everyone except for Bob$ and his girlfriend had exited the room later that morning, Zelgadis swung by with a friend of his, Clayton, to search for a jacket he left behind the night prior. It was then, in between the time that bob$'s girlfriend let Zelgadis enter the room and the time that she stepped into the bathroom, that Zelgadis concocted the brilliant plan of swiping the envelop containing $6,000 from the bed, and exited the room. After informing his friend Clayton of what he had just stolen from his best friends & crew mates, they both returned to Clayton's home in his truck, removed $200 to keep on their persons while stashing the remaining $5800 in their home, then returned to the venue as if nothing had happened.
...
Upon realizing that the envelop had been left behind, then realizing it was missing after we tore the hotel room apart, we quickly pieced together that Zelgadis was most likely the prime suspect (however ridiculous that seemed to us at the time.) After giving him the benefit of the doubt (he picked it up by accident, he tried bringing it to us but forgot it somewhere on the way to the tournament, etc) we explained to him that we believed he had it.
Our bluntness was met with the most sincere, straight-faced web of absolute bull**** lies that I have EVER witnessed in my entire life. Receiving everything from "I would never do that, I'm part of this crew just the same as you guys" to "I swear on my dead mother's life I did not take that envelop", he lied directly to our faces.
Long story short, we brought everyone involved including Clayton and Zelgadis back to the hotel, where after playing detectives by piecing together the time frame of the morning and cross-referencing cell phone texts, all the while being lied to for TWO SOLID HOURS about how they were innocent, we felt it time to contact the authorities.
Once the police arrived, another 90 minutes of lies and deceit was continued by the both of them while the police took our statements and cross-checked stories...
Finally, upon being confronted with the fact that they may very well face felony charges and prison time for this theft, and that we did not wish to press charges but only wanted to recover the money, Zelgadis admitted in front of the officers and Germ that he did indeed steal the cash. After the both of them were escorted to Clayton's home and brought back to our room, the envelop of prize money was delivered to us.
...You cannot believe just how hard this broke us down. After realizing that a friend we've known for nearly a decade, one of our own crew members, would so recklessly steal from us and nearly ruin us (reputation and financially), after being so directly lied to and misdirected for hours on end, we felt it NECESSARY to inform everyone reading this of the type of person Zelgadis truly is. Additionally, this isn’t what you’d call the first blemish on his record. I’m not going to embellish, but let’s just say that the six grand would *maybe* pay off all the debt that he’s stonewalled on to other people.
To those that know Zelgadis (Trebor), either personally or fleetingly, you may want to seriously consider the position you are in concerning a relationship with him. After being so misled, lied to, and sworn to up & down about this event, I can say with a certainty that we will never be able to believe a word that comes out of his mouth, nor trust him with anything on any kind of scale.
Do with this as you will, Melee Community.
-King Out
