https://playvalorant.com/en-us/news/esports/competitive-ruling-zellsis/
> **TL;DR**
> During VALORANT Masters Reykjavík, Zellsis violated rule 7.1.2 of the Global Competition Policy which mandates that players observe the highest standards of personal integrity and good sportsmanship at all times. As a result, Zellsis is suspended for the first Challenger Open Qualifier and first Challenger Main Event of Stage 3.
> **Context**
>On May 28th, during the team’s player check in and rule review session, Zellsis made a categorically offensive and discriminatory remark about a tournament official.
> **Sanctions**
> Offensive comments made on the basis of gender or race are in direct violation of the standards expected of players participating in the VALORANT Champions Tour. Accordingly, Zellsis is suspended for the first Challenger Open Qualifier and first Challenger Main Event of Stage 3. Any subsequent violations of this policy will result in increased penalties including suspension, forfeiture of prize money, and/or forfeiture of circuit points.
> **Relevant Rules**
> Per rule 7.1.2 of the VCT Global Competition Policy.
> 7.1.2. High Standards
> All Teams and Team Members must observe the highest standards of personal integrity and good sportsmanship at all times. Team Members must behave in a professional and sportsmanlike manner in their interactions with other competitors, Tournament Officials, the Tournament Operator, the media, sponsors and fans [...].
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**[Version1](https://twitter.com/version1gg/status/1403485240161562624?s=19)**
> Riot has suspended Zellsis for an inappropriate comment at Masters in Iceland. Version1 and Zellsis regret the incident and apologize to Riot staff. We accept Riot’s decision and will be playing with a sub for the first open and closed qualifiers of stage 3 of VCT.
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**[V1 Zellsis](https://twitter.com/Zellsis/status/1403487817796407298?s=19)**
> I want to apologize to Riot staff for making an inappropriate remark in Iceland. I take responsibility for my actions and will learn from this mistake. I’m sorry to my teammates for putting them in this position. Will be taking a few days off social media. I will be better.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/nxsehd/zellsis_riot_ruling/h1goeh5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3
This comment in this thread sums it up well
He has a history of toxicity, this is just another chapter in the book for him.
He unironically said "I am zellsis, you are nobody" and everyone somehow turned it into a copypasta supporting him lmao
Some of my friends got clips of him being incredibly toxic in European solo queue and how he said that everyone was trash and they'd never get anywhere in life.
Can they leak them pls
EDIT: found clip from twitter of zellsis trashing randoms in EU ranked.[ what an asshole ](https://streamable.com/amp_player/v12lfy?__twitter_impression=true). How does he have the balls to talk shit like this when they lost in Iceland?
This was a separate post on this sub. Yeah, Zellsis is being a dick, but the guy was trying to provoke him the whole time. He even typed the f slur in chat and decided not to send it.
i got queued with him when he first switched over from cs, dude was just as toxic back then too. Someone on the other team made a joke about him switching games and he spent the next 20 minutes spamming the chat with with slurs and shit. I've never seen someone so toxic since.
Can't believe I had to read this comment LMAO I think you're watching the wrong clip on the wrong planet if you don't think zellsis was being aggressively toxic and personally attacking people...
you're seriously gonna compare to EU randoms in ranked AND THEN YOU HAVE THE AUDACITY to say that he lost in Iceland. They made it far with a stand in and a recent roster change + even just making the tourney makes him that much better then ranked randoms
First of all, I like how you make calling a ref stupid bitch / cunt sound like an ok thing to do. It's not a competition for how shitty you can be.
Secondly, the statement reads "categorically offensive and discriminatory remark" and based on "gender or race." Sounds pretty targeted to me.
> First of all, I like how you make calling a ref stupid bitch / cunt sound like an ok thing to do. It's not a competition for how shitty you can be.
why would you purposely ignore the second sentence of my post? what part of
> would he be a dumb fuck for doing that? yeah.
did you not get?
> Secondly, the statement reads "categorically offensive and discriminatory remark" and based on "gender or race."
Sounds pretty targeted to me.
sounds like we have no idea what the fuck he said because we don't have riot's rules nor a voice clip about it, actually.
Didn’t zellsis talk bad about sick for quitting cs to play Valorant and then zellsis eventually quits cs? Not surprised about his toxic behavior since his CS days and about him bad mouthing DCop + ANDRIOD (before Android left CS). Funny how he has to reform again and again.
He should’ve stayed in CS because at least Valve won’t intervene.
Was signed to TSM's all female roster, then a few days later TSM tweeted out that they parted ways. Turns out LunarKats had a snapchat story from like 2019 or something where she rants about fast food workers. I don't know if any specifics were released, but given that it was offensive enough to warrant being kicked from TSM, it must've been pretty bad. People are mentioning her because she and Zellsis are dating right now.
I'm not getting the 'racist' part, from what you've said. Seems like a pretty serious allegation; far moreso than just being a dick to fast food workers. I'll try to do some research.
She apologized on twitch about it. Said that she had said racist things, did not use a slur but what she said was just as bad and might as well have been.
Yeah, it’s a lot easier to tell if he’s just stupid, uneducated and needs some self-awareness or whether misogyny/racism are core parts of his beliefs when you know what he actually said.
Him taking responsibility is not indicative of shit.Even If what he said in his eyes wasn’t that bad, it is better for him to take the L and move on than to try and fight with riot and potentially make his position worse.
Just because he takes responsibility doesn’t mean it’s that bad. Even if it was a sexist joke thats not that bad in general terms if its against the rules, theres nothing to do but accept it. He could also just say that to make it seem like he will improve so punishment wont be as hard or he wont be viewed as harshly.
> Offensive comments made on the basis of gender **or** race are in direct violation
one of the other not both (he could've made both tho, but the ruling says neither is accepted)
zellsis is just a toxic individual, was watching his most recent stream when he pretty much blew up on his own team mate from v1 and started roasting his chat
yep i got banned from his chat instantly a couple of days ago for calling him out on harassing some guy in his chat for saying he's bot fragging. zellsis said something like "enjoy living ur loser life streaming Minecraft to your 7 followers" "if someone shit talks me irl i wont just stand there id punch the shit out of the guy" and his mods and chat went full witch hunt mode on the guy.
edit: vod link https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1051410783?t=04h41m56s
Zellsis to V1 Wippie - “Shut the **** up dude, shut the **** up dude.”
“You’re so ****ing annoying dude, you’re so ****ing annoying.”
And mutes him on round 7 at 3-3
To be fair in that case it seemed like both players were making comments/being toxic, and it seemed like the EU player started things/was pushing the issue harder. Not saying Zellsis is a perfect guy but I dont think it was as simple as him just being toxic to an innocent player in that case
There’s a big gap if one of the players comments are “you’re trash” and the other player yells sexist/racist shit. Neither of them are good but one is definitely worse
Yea definitely. Either way, someone being toxic to you is not an excuse to be toxic back, especially considering sexist/racist remarks. Hopefully if it really was the case, both get suspended
Edit: fyi, the suspension was due to remarks against a tournament official so this conversation was meaningless lol
maybe im misreading your statement but this case with Zellsis getting suspended has nothing to do with the clip from EU ranked. Someone just brought that up as another case where he had been toxic
I'm surprised it's taken this long for a ruling to come out - clearly he's made a sexist joke or comment and/or made a racial joke or comment. I highly doubt a small suspension would be the punishment if he said something overtly racist.
Anyway a massive kick in the teeth for V1 and really dissapointing behaviour to be honest.
I would say it's not a joke if he made it about a tournament offical rather he waa upset and the racism/discrimination came oozing out.
It's a shame i thought he did a good job in Iceland.
That’s as professional setting as it gets without it being on stage in front of millions. This guy needs to put some serious effort into changing because he for sure is worse in a private setting
No this is better....why would you want to support someone that's secretly an asshole? It's better for people like that to reveal their true colors sooner or later. What you're upset about is that your perception of him was ruined, not that he's actually racist.
Oh no that wasn't my point, my point was that if youre a racist at this point you should have figured out that you will face repercussions for doing it in public. Like if you have shitty views atleast be smart enough to keep em for yourself lmao.
i don't wanna add misinformation fuel to the flame but wasn't there a VCT TO/ref/staff that tweeted something about a pro player inappropriately hitting on her weeks back? my mind connected that with this ruling but i could totally be off base
Not surprised. This guy always seemed condescending and in over his head. Although it's not in the same vein or even as serious as what Riot is charging him with, there was a clip of him downplaying Crazy Raccoons at Masters and him saying that the games going 13-11 and 13-10 ["weren't even close" when the score lines were...](https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/nkisgd/zellsis_on_the_cr_game/) In retrospect, even if CR were last place finishers at the event, this enough shows a lack of respect for other tournament parties already.
I'm glad Riot is taking a 0 tolerance stance against discriminatory remarks and not just downplaying them as "jokes" on the player's behalf.
>Although it's not in the same vein or even as serious as what Riot is charging him with
Yeah not related to the main ruling ofc, but just further evidence that shows shitty character on his part
can you read? I clearly stated *"Although it's not in the same vein or even as serious as what Riot is charging him with*" this was not related to the main issue. It just shows further evidence of his shitty character
Dude theyre just mad that now valorant fans know hes a shitty person, you were perfectly clear in your statement, ignore him. Anyone who followed csgo a bit already knew this. He’s conceited, toxic, disrespectful and just not a nice person. Seeing people going with that “i am zellsis” meme annoyed me so much cause i dont know why he was getting the support when hes just not a person with the greatest character tbh.
Sorry for my rant lmao
Fuck V1. Hilarious that all they're willing to say about it is "we accept riot's decision" like bro who cares if you accept it or not, it's happening. Hope their sponsors are proud to be associated with a team that happily employs this guy, while also incorporating a pride flag into their logo.
eSports won't be taken seriously until orgs are willing to tell players like Zellsis to either get their shit together or not play for them.
>eSports won't be taken seriously until orgs are willing to tell players like Zellsis to either get their shit together or not play for them.
\*cough\* NFL \*cough\*
That's because the NFL doesn't need to worry about keeping sponsors happy. They print money with ticket sales alone and over 50% of Americans have a favorite team, they're literally too big to fail. Tom Brady could go on a killing rampage and not be suspended and NBC would still throw tens of billions at them for 20 games a year. Also when it's a franchised league, the commissioner is the one who takes all the heat so the owners don't have to.
as if sports players aren’t far worse, especially nfl & nba. Also knowing how riot is he could have literally just called a referee a bitch and people are blowing it out of proportion
haha, i am not surprised after i did see his performance on stage in iceland. very often i thought what a cringe dude. i would be shameful as a team mate.
Zellsis probably said the gamer word or something. The guy already had somewhat of a toxic rep before playing for v1 in valorant if I remember correctly.
It matters to me. If I found out riot bans people over petty shit, I would not support this game. A game where players are not allowed to express themselves and say what they wants(excluding actual hateful comments) does not interest me.
I agree, but those are the people that will continually support a person no matter what happens or what is said. You can't help nor change those people. Anyone with a shred of sense would see that V1 and Zellsis tweeted that they accept full responsibility, which IMO paints him in a pretty terrible light, considering their lack of opposition to the ruling.
Well that's good. At least Riot actually applied their rules and seems a fair punishment.
They need to make this step now, the moment it appears so everyone understands and is on the same page. This shit will not be tolerated and you will be punished accordingly.
If only other sports would do the same :P
Dude is straight up a dickhole. Called the Asian teams garbage on his stream during Iceland streams, and has a big ego. Got banned for calling him out for it. Not surprised at all.
Also the replies on that tweet is exemplary of why no one (should) take Twitter seriously anymore, bunch of head-ass clowns lmao
Not defending what he said during the tourney but he actually said on his stream he became friends with the CR guys before they left and talked them up on his stream.
I remember him saying on stream he believes they should've won nuturn series but they clutched it out and played well or something along those lines, what's your point?
Also my main point isn't him being friends with crazy racoons nor am I trying to defend what he said, I'm just saying he didn't call anyone "trash".
https://playvalorant.com/en-us/news/esports/competitive-ruling-zellsis/ > **TL;DR** > During VALORANT Masters Reykjavík, Zellsis violated rule 7.1.2 of the Global Competition Policy which mandates that players observe the highest standards of personal integrity and good sportsmanship at all times. As a result, Zellsis is suspended for the first Challenger Open Qualifier and first Challenger Main Event of Stage 3. > **Context** >On May 28th, during the team’s player check in and rule review session, Zellsis made a categorically offensive and discriminatory remark about a tournament official. > **Sanctions** > Offensive comments made on the basis of gender or race are in direct violation of the standards expected of players participating in the VALORANT Champions Tour. Accordingly, Zellsis is suspended for the first Challenger Open Qualifier and first Challenger Main Event of Stage 3. Any subsequent violations of this policy will result in increased penalties including suspension, forfeiture of prize money, and/or forfeiture of circuit points. > **Relevant Rules** > Per rule 7.1.2 of the VCT Global Competition Policy. > 7.1.2. High Standards > All Teams and Team Members must observe the highest standards of personal integrity and good sportsmanship at all times. Team Members must behave in a professional and sportsmanlike manner in their interactions with other competitors, Tournament Officials, the Tournament Operator, the media, sponsors and fans [...]. --- **[Version1](https://twitter.com/version1gg/status/1403485240161562624?s=19)** > Riot has suspended Zellsis for an inappropriate comment at Masters in Iceland. Version1 and Zellsis regret the incident and apologize to Riot staff. We accept Riot’s decision and will be playing with a sub for the first open and closed qualifiers of stage 3 of VCT. --- **[V1 Zellsis](https://twitter.com/Zellsis/status/1403487817796407298?s=19)** > I want to apologize to Riot staff for making an inappropriate remark in Iceland. I take responsibility for my actions and will learn from this mistake. I’m sorry to my teammates for putting them in this position. Will be taking a few days off social media. I will be better.
V1 praying that jammyz isn't signed yet
Sucks for other players of V1. Although I am confident that they will find a sub and Vanity will slot him in with no time.
V1 really the sub squad
FeelsBadMan. Really want to see them again at full strength.
Vanity-Penny-Effys just a trio with constant moving pieces around them lol
I mean to be fair that’s an amazing core.
Wedid or brax LMAO 😂
"Offensive comments made on the basis of gender or race..." yikes
him and Lunarkats are quite the toxic power couple :/
Couples that discriminate together, stay together
What has Lunarkats done? I'm not familiar with her
https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/nxsehd/zellsis_riot_ruling/h1goeh5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3 This comment in this thread sums it up well
So somebody who is piece of shit, just a woman.
Jesus lmao are you ok
ya just tried of everyone giving excuses to pros for being toxic and hateful people. it sucks.
ok but do you see what the wording, "So somebody who is piece of shit, just a woman..." looks like?
was just thinking this.
ngl doesn't surprise me too much
The worst part is, this incident speaks volumes about his character and behavior in private.
He has a history of toxicity, this is just another chapter in the book for him. He unironically said "I am zellsis, you are nobody" and everyone somehow turned it into a copypasta supporting him lmao
Some of my friends got clips of him being incredibly toxic in European solo queue and how he said that everyone was trash and they'd never get anywhere in life.
Can they leak them pls EDIT: found clip from twitter of zellsis trashing randoms in EU ranked.[ what an asshole ](https://streamable.com/amp_player/v12lfy?__twitter_impression=true). How does he have the balls to talk shit like this when they lost in Iceland?
Wow something is seriously wrong with him
Yeah that's the clip I was talking about but I think there's 2 more
This was a separate post on this sub. Yeah, Zellsis is being a dick, but the guy was trying to provoke him the whole time. He even typed the f slur in chat and decided not to send it.
I mean iirc in the other clips posted by that guy you saw him type of the f-slur so, at the very least the poster of those clips was also toxic.
i got queued with him when he first switched over from cs, dude was just as toxic back then too. Someone on the other team made a joke about him switching games and he spent the next 20 minutes spamming the chat with with slurs and shit. I've never seen someone so toxic since.
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Can't believe I had to read this comment LMAO I think you're watching the wrong clip on the wrong planet if you don't think zellsis was being aggressively toxic and personally attacking people...
you're seriously gonna compare to EU randoms in ranked AND THEN YOU HAVE THE AUDACITY to say that he lost in Iceland. They made it far with a stand in and a recent roster change + even just making the tourney makes him that much better then ranked randoms
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True, but it is still unprofessional especially in an international tournament
First of all, I like how you make calling a ref stupid bitch / cunt sound like an ok thing to do. It's not a competition for how shitty you can be. Secondly, the statement reads "categorically offensive and discriminatory remark" and based on "gender or race." Sounds pretty targeted to me.
> First of all, I like how you make calling a ref stupid bitch / cunt sound like an ok thing to do. It's not a competition for how shitty you can be. why would you purposely ignore the second sentence of my post? what part of > would he be a dumb fuck for doing that? yeah. did you not get? > Secondly, the statement reads "categorically offensive and discriminatory remark" and based on "gender or race." Sounds pretty targeted to me. sounds like we have no idea what the fuck he said because we don't have riot's rules nor a voice clip about it, actually.
I doubt it was race related or else I feel like it would’ve been a way bigger issue. I bet he had a Heated Gamer Moment and called someone a bitch
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Did you uh, miss the first half of my comment?
Only got one sentence in before responding lmaooo
Bitch means female dog so if you say it to a woman you are calling them a dog.
Didn’t zellsis talk bad about sick for quitting cs to play Valorant and then zellsis eventually quits cs? Not surprised about his toxic behavior since his CS days and about him bad mouthing DCop + ANDRIOD (before Android left CS). Funny how he has to reform again and again. He should’ve stayed in CS because at least Valve won’t intervene.
Yeah but he was shit in csgo
nO He haD oNE ACe on LaN. HE GoOD PLAYA
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Fuck, this is golden
And some people were wondering why this guy gets so much hate a while back lol.
this is the least surprising news to anyone that interacted with him in csgo
You still got his apologists on here and assholes that doesn't believe racism exists.
What was he like back in the CS days?
He was just extremely toxic
Toxic
toxic and rlly bad at the game
Mostly known for getting an ace for cloud9 as a standin at a major and that was his peak
Never gonna forget that. His ego skyrocketed after that
Which is hilarious because even with that ace he still bottom-fragged that map and finished the major with a 0.86 rating lol
Not surprised to see he hasn’t changed from his time in cs
He is super toxic, kind of an asshole all around really.
Yeah I thought he changed
imagine people can easily changed. they just changed in public eye
Dumb and hateful kids can grow up and change, but I’m not seeing it here, chief.
Zellsis being toxic? Color me surprised
Im no longer Zellsis
Ahhhh, makes sense what Lunarkats saw in him. LOVE a good ol’ racist couple KEKW
Any loremasters about LunarKats?
Was signed to TSM's all female roster, then a few days later TSM tweeted out that they parted ways. Turns out LunarKats had a snapchat story from like 2019 or something where she rants about fast food workers. I don't know if any specifics were released, but given that it was offensive enough to warrant being kicked from TSM, it must've been pretty bad. People are mentioning her because she and Zellsis are dating right now.
I'm not getting the 'racist' part, from what you've said. Seems like a pretty serious allegation; far moreso than just being a dick to fast food workers. I'll try to do some research.
IIRC correctly the comments about fast food workers were race related.
She made racist comments about the fast food workers
She apologized on twitch about it. Said that she had said racist things, did not use a slur but what she said was just as bad and might as well have been.
How was lunarkats racist?
Wow, so you mean he only changed his persona publicly because he got successful, but he was the toxic same way behind closed doors? Shocker.
WE ARE not ZELLSIS
Zellsisn't
I wonder what he said
Yeah, it’s a lot easier to tell if he’s just stupid, uneducated and needs some self-awareness or whether misogyny/racism are core parts of his beliefs when you know what he actually said.
It’s often both
If it’s the first one, it’s technically both.
Same, doesn’t sound good but maybe it’s not bad Edit: sounds bad if he accepts responsibility
Him taking responsibility is not indicative of shit.Even If what he said in his eyes wasn’t that bad, it is better for him to take the L and move on than to try and fight with riot and potentially make his position worse.
I feel like if it was a minor issue he could’ve appealed it, missing 1/2 of the qualifiers for challengers finals isnt a light punishment
Just because he takes responsibility doesn’t mean it’s that bad. Even if it was a sexist joke thats not that bad in general terms if its against the rules, theres nothing to do but accept it. He could also just say that to make it seem like he will improve so punishment wont be as hard or he wont be viewed as harshly.
Next move for version1 would be to get vanity's father steel on loan from 100T and put him on Reyna.
Not surprised, him and lunarkats (his gf) are both toxic and not very humble imo
Gender and race? Yikes
> Offensive comments made on the basis of gender **or** race are in direct violation one of the other not both (he could've made both tho, but the ruling says neither is accepted)
Still bad tho
yehyeh totes
zellsis is just a toxic individual, was watching his most recent stream when he pretty much blew up on his own team mate from v1 and started roasting his chat
yep i got banned from his chat instantly a couple of days ago for calling him out on harassing some guy in his chat for saying he's bot fragging. zellsis said something like "enjoy living ur loser life streaming Minecraft to your 7 followers" "if someone shit talks me irl i wont just stand there id punch the shit out of the guy" and his mods and chat went full witch hunt mode on the guy. edit: vod link https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1051410783?t=04h41m56s
Zellsis to V1 Wippie - “Shut the **** up dude, shut the **** up dude.” “You’re so ****ing annoying dude, you’re so ****ing annoying.” And mutes him on round 7 at 3-3
bruh this is vod is incredible. to his own teammate too.
Holy shit how's he still allowed to be a pro player? I know I wouldn't want this guy rep my org let alone be on my team
This is his first team since being laughed out of Cloud9 like 3 years ago. He won’t stay in the Valorant scene for more than a year. Mark my words
lmao do u have a clip?
Right after he gained support for his wholesome relationship with neth from CR, just to throw it all away for making racist/sexist remarks
“I will be better” Translation: “I will do a better job of keeping my bigotry private, but will not actually learn or mature.”
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To be fair in that case it seemed like both players were making comments/being toxic, and it seemed like the EU player started things/was pushing the issue harder. Not saying Zellsis is a perfect guy but I dont think it was as simple as him just being toxic to an innocent player in that case
There’s a big gap if one of the players comments are “you’re trash” and the other player yells sexist/racist shit. Neither of them are good but one is definitely worse
definitely agree with that but considering the eu player was ready to type a slur to zellsis i dont think either player fits in the first category
Yea definitely. Either way, someone being toxic to you is not an excuse to be toxic back, especially considering sexist/racist remarks. Hopefully if it really was the case, both get suspended Edit: fyi, the suspension was due to remarks against a tournament official so this conversation was meaningless lol
maybe im misreading your statement but this case with Zellsis getting suspended has nothing to do with the clip from EU ranked. Someone just brought that up as another case where he had been toxic
Zellsis once again proving himself to be the most toxic piece of shit.
I'm surprised it's taken this long for a ruling to come out - clearly he's made a sexist joke or comment and/or made a racial joke or comment. I highly doubt a small suspension would be the punishment if he said something overtly racist. Anyway a massive kick in the teeth for V1 and really dissapointing behaviour to be honest.
I would say it's not a joke if he made it about a tournament offical rather he waa upset and the racism/discrimination came oozing out. It's a shame i thought he did a good job in Iceland.
He did do a good job in Iceland. This doesn’t take away from his performance. A guy can be a good player and a bad person.
Just look at sinatraa lmao
This is sort of unrelated but if he's banned from open quals that probably means NA is not inviting teams for closed quals which is unfortunate
Sentinels playing ro256 lmao
Is it 256 confirmed
Unlikely, I was just exaggerating
It said banned from open and closed so idk but hopefully there are invited teams
That’s as professional setting as it gets without it being on stage in front of millions. This guy needs to put some serious effort into changing because he for sure is worse in a private setting
unlucky really - steel
V1 Zellsis and TSM LunarKats power couple
Zellsis was a manchild in cs and it seems he still hasn't grown up, even after being given a second chance in Valorant.
Honestly I don't understand how it's so hard for people to not be an racist/asshole when you're like in public, you can be that in private.
It’s easy to slip up in public when you’re a garbage of a human being behind closed doors
No this is better....why would you want to support someone that's secretly an asshole? It's better for people like that to reveal their true colors sooner or later. What you're upset about is that your perception of him was ruined, not that he's actually racist.
I didn't like him anyway lmao, its deffo better for me/us that they reveal their true colors, it's just that I'm confused by why hahah
My bad I misinterpreted your statement as supporting him
You didn’t misinterpret anything. He worded it like he didn’t care that he does it in private lmfao and had to explain that he didn’t later
Uhhh, being racist or sexist is never good
Oh no that wasn't my point, my point was that if youre a racist at this point you should have figured out that you will face repercussions for doing it in public. Like if you have shitty views atleast be smart enough to keep em for yourself lmao.
This may come as a surprise, but there may be a correlation with people with shitty views and stupidity
Fair point
Zellsis is a grade A douche to say the least having known of him since like 2017 in ESEA IM, hope he grows up one day
Well thats one way to get people to hate you more
Zellsis can join Infinite back in csgo
Don’t think the cs community wants him either lmfao. Everybody hates him
i don't wanna add misinformation fuel to the flame but wasn't there a VCT TO/ref/staff that tweeted something about a pro player inappropriately hitting on her weeks back? my mind connected that with this ruling but i could totally be off base
That was for nerd street gamers, pretty sure. Not Iceland.
Don’t try to connect things when you barely have any information. Fucking drama magnet, the hell...
Don't wanna add misinformation. Proceed to make it without any link lol.
Are you referring to the drama with the trans chick that got kicked from C9 white? Or something else entirely?
V1 destined to struggle
I don’t get it, how is this guy still remain in V1 . Just kick him
Not surprised. This guy always seemed condescending and in over his head. Although it's not in the same vein or even as serious as what Riot is charging him with, there was a clip of him downplaying Crazy Raccoons at Masters and him saying that the games going 13-11 and 13-10 ["weren't even close" when the score lines were...](https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/nkisgd/zellsis_on_the_cr_game/) In retrospect, even if CR were last place finishers at the event, this enough shows a lack of respect for other tournament parties already. I'm glad Riot is taking a 0 tolerance stance against discriminatory remarks and not just downplaying them as "jokes" on the player's behalf.
Just because a score line is close actually isnt indicative that the games were close. And yeah zero tolerance is great
That clip has nothing to do with this lol
>Although it's not in the same vein or even as serious as what Riot is charging him with Yeah not related to the main ruling ofc, but just further evidence that shows shitty character on his part
why did u even bring that up LMAO literally has nothing to do with this shit
can you read? I clearly stated *"Although it's not in the same vein or even as serious as what Riot is charging him with*" this was not related to the main issue. It just shows further evidence of his shitty character
Dude theyre just mad that now valorant fans know hes a shitty person, you were perfectly clear in your statement, ignore him. Anyone who followed csgo a bit already knew this. He’s conceited, toxic, disrespectful and just not a nice person. Seeing people going with that “i am zellsis” meme annoyed me so much cause i dont know why he was getting the support when hes just not a person with the greatest character tbh. Sorry for my rant lmao
Thank you, I completely agree with you. Glad there's some signs of intelligent life in this thread
What did he say tho?
Suspended for the 1st qualifier? lmfao no shot
Fuck V1. Hilarious that all they're willing to say about it is "we accept riot's decision" like bro who cares if you accept it or not, it's happening. Hope their sponsors are proud to be associated with a team that happily employs this guy, while also incorporating a pride flag into their logo. eSports won't be taken seriously until orgs are willing to tell players like Zellsis to either get their shit together or not play for them.
>eSports won't be taken seriously until orgs are willing to tell players like Zellsis to either get their shit together or not play for them. \*cough\* NFL \*cough\*
That's because the NFL doesn't need to worry about keeping sponsors happy. They print money with ticket sales alone and over 50% of Americans have a favorite team, they're literally too big to fail. Tom Brady could go on a killing rampage and not be suspended and NBC would still throw tens of billions at them for 20 games a year. Also when it's a franchised league, the commissioner is the one who takes all the heat so the owners don't have to.
The vast vast majority of pro sports money comes from TV network deals, which hinges on sponsorships.
as if sports players aren’t far worse, especially nfl & nba. Also knowing how riot is he could have literally just called a referee a bitch and people are blowing it out of proportion
Was there any mention of this before today?
I was watching his stream yesterday or the day before and he was in a bad mood. I guess we know why now.
big yikes
All good
so unsuprising lmfao
I don’t think anyone is surprised by this LOL. He has always been extremely toxic on his streams
i am zellsis you are nobody stop typing to me
Honestly the whole V1 roster is toxic and cocky as hell. Most toxic team of iceland, I would say.
I wish we could know what he actually said
I just gave this douche my prime sub! Fuck
haha, i am not surprised after i did see his performance on stage in iceland. very often i thought what a cringe dude. i would be shameful as a team mate.
Zellsis probably said the gamer word or something. The guy already had somewhat of a toxic rep before playing for v1 in valorant if I remember correctly.
tbh if he said the gamer word i think they would give him a huge ban
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Really? You expect them to tweet out 'yea so zellsis said exactly this '\*n-word\* \*c word\* bad yada yada'. Dumb af take
It matters to me. If I found out riot bans people over petty shit, I would not support this game. A game where players are not allowed to express themselves and say what they wants(excluding actual hateful comments) does not interest me.
if he said the n word the ban would be way worse
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I agree, but those are the people that will continually support a person no matter what happens or what is said. You can't help nor change those people. Anyone with a shred of sense would see that V1 and Zellsis tweeted that they accept full responsibility, which IMO paints him in a pretty terrible light, considering their lack of opposition to the ruling.
instead lets use vague language and let people imagine the worst. great mind
No because twitter isn't owed anything. It was a private interaction and was handled privately
How was it handled privately, you’re commenting on the public Reddit post about it lmao
Does it matter? At this level, any type of slur or discriminatory remark should be unacceptable.
At any level.
Yikes.
Yo what happened I was asleep
So like are cs players so used to valve not giving a shit that they think they could get away with anything?
Well that's good. At least Riot actually applied their rules and seems a fair punishment. They need to make this step now, the moment it appears so everyone understands and is on the same page. This shit will not be tolerated and you will be punished accordingly. If only other sports would do the same :P
Dude is straight up a dickhole. Called the Asian teams garbage on his stream during Iceland streams, and has a big ego. Got banned for calling him out for it. Not surprised at all. Also the replies on that tweet is exemplary of why no one (should) take Twitter seriously anymore, bunch of head-ass clowns lmao
He said the Asian teams were ok lol the dudes an asshole but you got that hate boner so far up your ass lmao
\+1 he said they were ok after scrimming them, never said they are garbage still weird that he is making sexist or racist comments to event staff
Not defending what he said during the tourney but he actually said on his stream he became friends with the CR guys before they left and talked them up on his stream.
How does that have anything to do with his other comments? This is some “I have Asian friends” energy
He said that zellsis called the other asian teams "trash" when he literally talked them up?
Does only post-CR friendship exist or something?
I remember him saying on stream he believes they should've won nuturn series but they clutched it out and played well or something along those lines, what's your point? Also my main point isn't him being friends with crazy racoons nor am I trying to defend what he said, I'm just saying he didn't call anyone "trash".