In Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Steam), an experienced professional from Argentina played on a Brazilian platform, GamersClub. The CS:GO professional repeatedly made derogatory remarks about Brazilians. A clip of his comments went viral, leading to negative consequences for him.
Who is the player?
- Nicolás “NikoM” Miozzi (26) plays Rifler in CS:GO.
- He has been a professional since 2015 and has earned just over $18,000 in prize money; he is therefore not a very successful professional. His greatest successes were at “C-Tier” tournaments.
- Since the e-sports scene in South America revolves around Brazil and nearly all South Americans want to play in Brazil, the Argentine often played for Brazilian teams, most recently for River Plate.
Insults are recorded in the Twitch stream
This is what he did: The Argentine enjoys playing on “Gamers Club” and was even named “Foreign Player of the Year” in 2017. Gamers Club is a Brazilian app that brings people together to play. The goal is to promote e-sports in Brazil.
However, videos circulated showing NikoM making xenophobic comments towards a Brazilian player while he was streaming live on Twitch. He said things to a player like (via dotesports):
- “dirty Brazilian”
- “shitty Brazilian”
- “Brazilian with cancer”
- “poor Brazilian”
The player “snitched” on NikoM to the GamersClub platform and asked if they thought it was acceptable for a guy with 1,000 viewers to spread racism and xenophobia:
Tweet with insults goes viral
What happened? A clip of these insults was viewed more than 900,000 times and caused an uproar in the Brazilian community.
People called for his head:
- There is no tolerance for such behavior, and the ban hammer must be swung.
- Another said he does this constantly, spreading only hate, racism, and xenophobia.
How did it end? GamersClub banned the player for 5 years. Additionally, there was a clarification that they do not share such a mindset. He was also removed from a list of all the professionals in CS:GO on Faceit, which led to some cheer cries in Portuguese.
It is also hard to imagine that the man will play for a professional team again. It seems his career is over.
Racist remarks are always wrong and should be condemned. But making xenophobic comments live in a stream about the citizens of the country from which your livelihood depends is a particularly bad idea.
It is astonishing how carelessly some people handle their careers and reputations:
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