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Team One subjected to racist taunting in ECS Closed Qualifier

This is hardly the way to welcome someone America.

Yesterday in the ECS Season 5 Closed Qualifier match between American mix team and the Brazilians of Team One, some of the American players were on less than their best behavior.

While some of the actions of Dylan "Hiki" O'Kane and Andy "devastation" Parr were bad manners and rude, at one point the h00liGaNz player imitated a monkey. The player did not respond to a request for comment by Dust2.us.*

After the match concluded in a 2-1 victory for the Brazilians, despite a stellar performance from Ryan "Snakes" Amann, Team One owner Alexandre "kakavel" Peres took to Twitter to apologize for his own player's responding to the taunting:

Anthony "Nervous" Boring, who played with the team in the open qualifier, but was replaced by Adam "juice" Sar yesterday due to being at LAN, shared that he had received some love from upset Brazilian fans:

It will no doubt help the players of One to brush off the slights with the knowledge they were able to defeat their adversaries and advance to the ECS Season 5 Challengers Cup, which will take place in early March. Later that month, the team will head to China for the WESG World Finals.

In less good news, the team have been marked dead in ESEA, apparently due to not respecting the roster restrictions imposed upon them because of taking over the roster spot formerly held by their countrymen Gorilla Core.

As of now, none of the 2K players who participated in the match have acknowledged the drama publically, and FACEIT/ECS have also not commented. devastation and h00liGaNz will continue their ESEA MDL campaign this week with two matches against RONIN and No Tenemos Nada.

* UPDATE: devastation has responded to this article in the comments.

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#1(With 2 replies)
February 19, 2018 06:20PM
Joe
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Yikes.

That's a shame about their ESEA Main season, but, could they not have gone thru the application process to get an ESEA main spot instead of replacing Gorilla Core's roster?
#2(With 1 replies)
February 19, 2018 06:44PM
ArthurL
Exactly what I thought.. they played ESEA GX and Americas Minor, for sure they could've been invited to ESEA Main
#7(With 0 replies)
February 19, 2018 07:37PM
tolkienfanatic
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I believe that whole arrangement was done before the invite process was announced.
#3(With 6 replies)
February 19, 2018 07:21PM
dev
MDL
What a great article Joe Cardali. Glad people keep spewing out false information without having any clue what happened. All that was typed to them throughout the game were smiley faces and question marks (only from me and hiki). I guess the team owner had to apologize for his team typing those horribly rude question marks in response to ours. Everything said in team voice chat ("too easy", "brazil is lost", "fuck brazil") was not over-the-line and was just us getting hyped; paired with the fact that they obviously can't hear it. This "monkey noise" that I made was directed at my teammates and in relation to what we were saying in Discord: "lets run and jump through mid like monkeys". The context in which I said it was describing a play style which many players relate to a monkey: holding w and jumping around corners. The context that apparently everyone in spectate thought was a direct racial insult to the other team. Considering we were well aware of everyone watching and that they could hear our in-game comms, I'd say it's pretty obvious I wouldn't knowingly be racist in front of thousands of people. With that being said, I'm still confused as to how we taunted them and how they are victims of racism. Kind of ironic since during the first 2 maps our steam profiles were littered with Brazilian teenagers threatening to hunt us down and calling us NA trash. All in all, pretty good showing for a pug team full of drunk, cheeseburger-eating racists.
#4(With 3 replies)
February 19, 2018 07:26PM
tolkienfanatic
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"The player did not respond to a request for comment by Dust2.us"
#5(With 2 replies)
February 19, 2018 07:34PM
dev
MDL
Only been on this site a few times and I have no idea where you requested a comment.
#6(With 1 replies)
February 19, 2018 07:37PM
tolkienfanatic
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You were DM'ed on Twitter 18 hours before this article was posted.

Nevertheless, happy that you put your side of the story here.
#10(With 0 replies)
February 19, 2018 08:41PM
Joe
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18 hours is a long fucking time for this kinda shit lmao.
#11(With 1 replies)
February 19, 2018 08:43PM
JoeCardali
A great article? Thanks for the compliment, friend!
#12(With 0 replies)
February 19, 2018 10:34PM
CS_CeeJ
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kill em with kindness
#8(With 0 replies)
February 19, 2018 08:22PM
el_jack0
ESEA
I do not think anything done was over the line. I do not think it would get the same reaction if they were caught saying "Fuck NA", "NA is lost", etc.
#9(With 0 replies)
February 19, 2018 08:35PM
junera
Disgusting attitude
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