VALORANT: Player promotes racist speech; Understand

O MEG championship OFF//SEASON of VALUING The playoffs started this Monday (16). However, one day after the start of the championship, dgzinformer FURIA player published a series of messages where one of the team’s players timberknicks, drope promotes racist hate speech.

In the publication, dgzin demonstrates his frustration with the statements that Drope said to another user. In the messages, drope asks another person who the other player was and concluded that the user should say: “Tell him he’s black and he’ll be a p#t@”.

pprt I don’t care about losing, especially these qualifying bgl that I know some unusual things always happen

but with all due respect, @dropevlr he was happy because he won and the crlh, apparently he loves the media and these types of things just arrived in my DM here, apart from friendships with… pic.twitter.com/KqXV5Exavy

— dgzin (@dgzinh99) October 17, 2023

Furthermore, dgzin also explained that the motivations that made him publish the messages are not the fact that he was eliminated by the team, but rather the situations that are happening.

What saddens me most is that I don’t think I’m doing this bgl because I lost it, with all due respect… I don’t know, it only gets worse every day that this social network passes

— dgzin (@dgzinh99) October 17, 2023

MEG rules on discrimination

Our report looked for the championship regulations which set out the tournament’s penalties and codes of conduct.

Players may not offend the dignity or integrity of a country, person or group of people through degrading, discriminatory or denigrating practices words or actions because of race, skin color, ethnic, national or social origin, gender, language, religion, political opinion, financial situation, country of birth, sex guidance or any other reason.

Statement from the MEG organization

After the speeches, the More Esports contacted the organization to find out what MEG’s position would be in relation to the speeches and also about the team’s situation in the event of a victory in the matches, however, the organization has not yet responded to the request.