In Valorant, the Valorant Champions Tour 2023 LOCK//IN is currently taking place, an offline tournament in São Paulo where teams from around the world compete. On February 23rd, the Turkish team FUT Esports (FUT) faced off against the Indonesian-Philippine roster of Rex Regum Qeon (RRQ). The teams held a moment of silence for the earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria, which was inadvertently interrupted by the streamer with a silly comment.
Who is it about? The Taiwanese streamer Jeremy “DisguisedToast” Wang also showcased the match on his channel. Meanwhile, he had nearly 5,900 viewers (via SullyGnome) and was on a voice call with the Turkish-American Twitch streamer tarik. Tarik also featured the match and had around 57,000 viewers at the time (via SullyGnome).
Shortly before the match began, the teams held a moment of silence for the victims of the earthquakes in Syria and Turkey, which DisguisedToast interrupted with a silly comment.
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How was the moment of silence interrupted? While the teams were holding the moment of silence, DisguisedToast made the statement: ‘This is also good because one of my biggest problems is getting my partner wet.’
The comment from Toast came at a very inappropriate time, but he did not intend to consciously interrupt the moment of silence.
The streamer wasn’t paying close attention to the events and therefore did not realize that the teams were holding a moment of silence. Apparently, he replied with the comment to a remark in his Twitch chat that dealt with the Valorant agent “Harbor”.
DisguisedToast interrupted the moment of silence not only for his own viewers but also for his conversation partner tarik, with whom he was watching the match, as well as his viewers. In total, he put his foot in it in front of about 63,000 people.
What happened next? Since DisguisedToast clearly did not notice that the teams were holding a moment of silence, tarik immediately interrupted him and pointed it out. DisguisedToast then apologized and decided after the moment of silence to donate $1,000 to a charity fund (via Twitch).
In the earthquake in the Turkish-Syrian border area on February 6th, thousands of people lost their lives. Valorant esports athlete Gizem “Luie” Harmankaya also died in the catastrophe.
Valorant esports athlete Luie passed away in the earthquake in Turkey
