Considering that any company that's been around long enough is bound to have some unfortunate history attached to it, the whole beef is a bit lame. Even the 1-8 has some questionable allegations: they dumped the amazingly talented Burnquist (cause he had came out with an action-figure of himself), passed on Dylan Reider (cause one of their guys thought he was a kook)... etc. Sucks that the world tends to work this way, but business is business at the end of the day, and it can be cutthroat.