Dallas Fuel Owner Denies Roster Acquisition

Roster moves being reported on before the teams invloved have a chance to officially announce them are a common occurence in the world of esports and this was the case for the Dallas Fuel. Esports reporter Rod Breslau posted a tweet that stated multiple sources had confirmed the signing of former Lunatic-Hai player Woo-yeon "sowhat" Bong to the Dallas Fuel roster. The owner and CEO of the Dallas Fuel, Mike "Hastr0" Rufail, took to Twitter to respond to the report by Breslau.  

You should get rid of that source

— Mike Rufail (@hastr0) February 10, 2018

Rufail stated that Breslau's source for the information on the Dallas Fuel was not correct and that the Dallas Fuel had not signed sowhat to the roster. He would continue to confirm that the Dallas Fuel had not made the roster move in question in subsequent tweets to others questioning if Rufail was just denying the move.  

Seeing as how I am the sole signatory for our organization on each and every player agreement, I have a good feeling we haven’t signed any additional players at this time.

— Mike Rufail (@hastr0) February 10, 2018

Considering that Rufail is the one who must sign off on every roster move to make it official, it stands to believe that if he is denying a roster move then the team has not made it. There are cases where staff members of an organization have denied a reported roster move, only for it to be made official by the organization sometime later, such as the case with CS:GO organization Virtus.pro.  

Potentially, but we certainly haven’t made any agreements that warrant a confirmation tweet like the one @slasher just alluded to.

— Mike Rufail (@hastr0) February 10, 2018

The Dallas Fuel could still be looking to sign another player to their roster, as Rufail would go on to Tweet that the team could "potentially" be looking, but no agreements had been made by any party to support the confirmation by Rod Breslau of the sowhat addition to the Fuel.  

This is not the first time that the Dallas Fuel have been the subject of roster talk in Stage 1 of the Overwatch League, as it was reported that the team had signed former Rogue player Dylan "aKm" Bignet to their roster. This move, however, was officially confirmed by Rufail. 

It would not look good for the Dallas Fuel owner to deny the addition of sowhat so profusely to only have the organization announce it sometime later. This leads us to believe that the player will not be a member of the Fuel anytime soon. 

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