Party fiasco - Surely someone must have known?

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All Eurobet affiliates received notification that even the Eurobet managers did not know this in advance. It caught everyone with the pans down

JAque

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And their pants down too!

It appears the skins/affilates did not know this was coming. They may have suspected something was afoot for the future, but totally unaware of exactly what or when. It does seem that Party kinda "backdoored" this in last night.

Wondering if the lawyers for Empire/skins have been summoned from the golf courses and TV's tuned to football/NASCAR/etc. today to get busy on some sort of legal response to this.

Also, if the skins would sue to regain access to the full Party network, isn't it possible a judge could rule in the skins favor and force Party to take them back? Presumably, any legal actions would take place in Gibralter.....and know nothing about the legal system there.

Edit: Having read through the post Diablo linked, if the contracts had in fact expired the skins are probably SOL. But if they still had a few months left.....they may have some options. Would be interesting to know exactly when those 2-year contracts were due to expire.