On February 19, there was great excitement in League of Legends. A player, botlaner Steven “Senpai” Guss Esber Spier, left a professional match in the French 2nd league and hinted on Twitter that he wanted to harm himself. The community reacted and alerted the fire department. This helped prevent the worst.
This is what happened:
- In week 6 of the Second League of the LFL, there was a game between Joblife and Project Conquerors.
- In the middle of the game, the ADC of Project Conquerors, Senpai, had a disconnect due to a Discord problem, as reported by Breakflip.
- But instead of logging back in, the botlaner posted a message on Twitter that worried many players. He wrote “Goodbye world”, bidding farewell to the world (via eclypsia).
So many calls that the fire department has never experienced
This is how the community reacted: The stream on Twitch, by OTP, was canceled after a few minutes.
Players contacted the manager of Project Conquerors to find out the player’s address (via twitter).
Now the local fire department could be alerted to check on the player, and indeed they found the player alive before anything could happen.
The manager later wrote (via twitter): “Senpai is with his mother, he is fine. The fire department told me there were a lot of calls and that they had never seen anything like this before.”
This is how the league reacted: The league’s Twitter account officially announced that “With great relief, we can inform you that Senpai has been found safe.”
They thanked the community.
Additionally, it was decided not to resume the match day on February 19, but to move week 6 of the league to February 20 and 23.
This is what the player says: The player wrote that he has no words to describe how he feels, that he feels empty.
However, he thanked everyone who did everything to ensure he could still be here.
