In North America, there was a controversy in the e-sport scene of Call of Duty: The 22-year-old Daunten “Sib” Gray accused a colleague of smoking weed and playing high on cannabis. His boss, Matthew “Nadeshot” Haag, (31) said: If he plays that well on weed, he’d gladly smoke one with him. After all, nobody likes drug testers.
This was the controversy:
- As reported by the US site Dexerto , Sib from the New York Subliners accused the best player of the LA Thieves, Daniel “Ghosty” Rothe (21), of smoking weed.
- A Twitter user confronted the boss of the LA Thieves, Matthew “Nadeshot” Haag, with this accusation: Ghosty was “high on weed” during official
Call of Duty
matches – he should take care of the problem before the league gets wind of it. - Nadeshot (profile picture) is not a suit-wearer. The club boss and founder of 100 Thieves is 31, a Twitch streamer, and was previously a shooter pro himself. Therefore, his reaction was different than expected.
Nobody likes drug testers
This was Nadeshot’s reaction: The club boss wrote on Twitter that he had no idea if it was really true and if his player played on cannabis. But Ghosty had played so well all year that he felt like smoking with him. Moreover, it stands: Nobody likes drug testers. The Twitter user should “kick rocks, pal.”
Later, Nadeshot published another tweet where he said that they would smoke a little weed on Twitch in solidarity with Ghosty.
How is this being discussed? Nadeshot received a lot of applause and agreement on Twitter for his casual handling of the accusation. People generally find it amusing how the 31-year-old former e-sports athlete and influencer deals with the allegations against his player.
The site Dexerto notes, however, that there are also some negative opinions about Nadeshot’s statements:
- Twitch streamers would set a terrible example for children.
- Such statements would lead to no one taking e-sport seriously.
What’s behind this: Even though this all sounds funny and invites a chuckle: There has indeed been a rampant drug problem in e-sports for years, particularly in shooters and MOBAs like LoL, which should be taken seriously. However, it is not about cannabis, but about attention drugs like Adderall or Ritalin.
Even if Nadeshot’s reaction seems cool here and cannabis is legal in many states of the USA (and soon also in Germany), one should not make the mistake of treating all drugs or substance abuses the same. Especially since the e-sport of Call of Duty had a significantly more serious case of substance abuse just a month ago that made headlines:
CoD: Pro appears so stoned in interview that his team replaces him.
