League of Legends player Cheon "Promise" Min-Ki is in serious condition today after reportedly jumping from a twelve-story building and ending up in a coma. According to several Korean news reports, this comes after he revealed alleged eSports match-fixing.

Promise played for South Korea's AHQ eSports team. But according to him, the whole thing was a sham. On the Inven forums (via Gosu Gamers and Redditor AskMeAboutZombies), Promise wrote how the team was apparently created by the manager to throw games and lose on purpose.2

In his post, Promise wrote how he was allegedly threatened by team manager Noh Dae Chu if he tried to win. Because of those threats, Promise said he did do things to lose on purpose. Continuing, he added (via AskMeAboutZombies):

    When we first made the team, we were told that AHQ sponsored us with cash and computers. We didn't know they only gave us gaming gear for rights to the team name. Our manager Noh had lied to us, and took out a loan to pay for our housing, living expenses, computers, and even our salaries. He was planning on placing illegal bets on eSports games and fixing them to win back the borrowed money and make a profit.

Things got worse, with Promise writing about how the manager allegedly sold off their practice computers and apparently telling them he couldn't pay their rent. He continues (via AskMeAboutZombies):

    Later on, I contacted AHQ and talked to their management in Taiwan. They denied ever donating any money or computers. They only donated gaming gear meant for the players themselves, not manager Noh. I asked if we could keep rest of the gear for practice and they approved. Eventually, we discovered that Noh was selling our practice computers so he could pay off his debts and run...

    ...we confronted Noh and announced we're leaving the team. We demanded payment for the months that he still owed us. Noh responded that he couldn't give us the money right away, but he would instead waive the 50% commission that AHQ claimed on prize money. Since we previously talked to AHQ management, the entire team already knew Noh was lying. AHQ never sponsored us with cash, never had rights to prize money and the computers didn't belong to them, so who is he trying to pay money back to?

"I know I could have done better, but thanks to these events my professional career was over," he added. "After practicing to my best for a year, all I had left was a feeling of emptiness." Promise ended his post with these words (via AskMeAboutZombies):

Promise said he grew up in a disadvantaged household. As noted on Inven (via Redditor cakezz15), his father left when he was 15 years 0ld, and his family home had no heating. Pro-gaming was Promise's way out.

tl;dr: I'm not in this world after 5 minutes, AHQ Korea was a team made by Noh to profit off illegal gambling, teammates didn't know and we had to fix games because of this. AHQ Taiwan never sponsored our team, it was a lie. I am sorry for all of this, and I can't tell you everything, but I'm leaving now as I cant deal with this anymore.

Just thought I'd put this here as I've never seen many 'news articles' about gamers killing themselves over game fixing, but I'd just like to see what people think about this situation, although this isn't RuneScape,  I thought this would be something people might of had an interest in.

Saw this on league reddit when it happened.  (follow it daily).
The player ended up okay and a bunch of pro teams made money for him to help pay for his hospital bills.
People might just say that it's silly to attempt suicide over just fixing matches but in Korea E-sports have been there for a long time and there is major pride in being able to play. The couch was abusive and the players just wouldnt say anything until this incident finally happened.

I wouldn't say it's common at all, but there was one other incident like this in Korea with Starcraft I believe. It's not heard about in news because esports has only recently came a big thing in UK or US :p