In League of Legends, the Bulgarian professional player Nicolai “Nicolaiy” Garkov was released from his team after making sexist remarks about a female player in a game in the solo queue. The Bulgarian sees the problem not with himself, but with “snowflakes” who have no life.
The Bulgarian Nicolaiy was the jungler for the French team “MS Company” until January 15, who play in the French league LFL – Division 2.
What did the player do? The player was involved in a match of solo queue in EUW, where a professional player from the team “g2 Hel” also participated, which is the sister team of G2 Esports, where only women play. The Swedish Maya “Catlys” Henckel (20) played in the game on the bot lane in Nicolaj’s team.
The Bulgarian wrote things like:
- “I have a girl here who plays hyper-carry champs – GG”
- “Ah, you’re a girl, that explains a lot.”
- “She can’t even press a button, how does she expect to carry the game?”
Ultimately, Nicolaiy’s team lost, he played 8/10/9 in the jungle, the Swedish player 2/6/3 as ADC.
A tweet from the player with the sexist remarks was viewed over 2.7 million times on Twitter:
Under the tweet, former teammates of the jungler also said the guy was toxic in multiple ways, not just sexist.
Team fires jungler immediately and permanently
This was the consequence: The French team of the jungler published a statement just a few hours after the incident, publicly apologizing to the player, her team, and everyone affected by these “unacceptable remarks.”
The team has clear values and principles that stand firmly against such behavior. Therefore, the whole team decided to part ways with the player immediately and permanently.
The regional leagues of individual countries in LoL became popular through teams created by YouTubers:
Pro feels betrayed: “Girl just wanted attention”
This was the Bulgarian’s reaction: The player initially defended his comments on Twitter: He said he was not sexist. He would have said the same to any man who couldn’t even press “F” on his keyboard.
A girl just wanted a little attention, so she could do whatever she wanted and ruin other people’s careers. That is the society we live in today.
Those same people who stand for tolerance would now write to him that he should kill himself. That can’t be the case.
He is disappointed that “in tough times” no one stands by him, and even his own teammates turned against him.
A LoL coach summarizes some of the now-deleted tweets from Nicolaiy:
Shortly after, he announced: His life had gone super well until now, but now he would delete his Twitter and League account.
He wants to advise all “snowflakes” commenting on Twitter: They should find their own life instead of commenting on Twitter.
According to an e-sport journalist who followed the situation (via medium): The Bulgarian later deleted all tweets and even apologized to the player and MS Company. However, this is no longer verifiable because the entire account has now been deleted on Twitter.
Sexism in e-sports is an ongoing issue. Riot Games has a notorious past here, but has worked in recent years to improve the situation.
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