http://www.channelfireball.com/home/announcement-regarding-tristan-shaun-gregson/So for some context here, Channel Fireball is one of the big Magic The Gathering sites out there, they have a card store and put up a lot of articles and videos of MTGOnline drafts and sponsor/are comprised of several of the world's top players. They differentiated themselves from other such sites by guaranteeing all their content would always be free (other major sites usually charge a subscription of some sort for immediate access to articles and stuff), making A LOT of both informative and entertainment videos, and explicitly working on their reputation as Awesome Nice People instead of Snooty Tournament Grinders. They are not THE largest or most trafficked site, and their card store is not the biggest or smoothest operation out there (that would be Star City Games on all counts), but they are unquestionably the most beloved by the community and were doing quite well for themselves.
Tristan Shaun Gregson, while not a top tier pro player himself, ran their card store, was their Cube format expert and produced and appeared in most of their weekly video series. So today this happened, and nobody knows what the heck. From a community perspective, this is like hearing Bob Barker stole a set of Plinko prizes and fled to Mexico. It is just bizarre. He stole cards, from his own store, that he ran, and sold them on an Ebay/Paypal account registered to his name. Neither the store nor TSG himself were in any financial trouble, as far as anyone can tell. He was doing quite well and had a great reputation, both working and personal, with the rest of the site and the community at large. The stolen sum is not even all that large, $1000-1500 or so at most.
Just... what.
