It isn't a big deal at that moment. He plays a tournament and have a final table to win tomorrow, you can't expect him to seat here and discuss this thing.
He will play tomorrow, finish the tournament, relax for a day or two, then contact the two persons and decide what to do. I almost sure they will solve it peacefully and all the sides will be happy.
If they don't, I'm sure they won't start to tell each other "get out of here, I don't want to see you". I'm sure they will find one or three persons that they both respect, and ask them to be an arbitrator in this situation.
If one of the sides has a financial clime, and the second side controls the money and don't ready to do steps to solve it — then yes, it is a big deal.
At this moment this is a small technical misunderstanding, that almost sure will be solved between the three persons without any dramatic stuff.
You guys here skipping the possibility for Tim and the investors to solve it peacefully because it is a fan for you here, to discuss all this stuff. I work here at this marketplace, spinning ~300K every month, I don't like the idea that stuff like this is threaten this way. This thread already put Tim against the investors, the atmosphere in this thread is much closer to thread about cheating than to thread about technical problem.
This approach aggravate the problem. I don't agree that this situation, if will be solved by the sides or with an arbitrator, has anything negative in it. Stuff like this happen.
So I offer everybody to calm down here, wish Tim good luck today, and go sleep
. Tomorrow or few days from now they will talk and decide what to do. I will be the first to defend the investors in case somebody will say them "f**k off" in a situation like this, but this is not the case now, please stop threat it this way.