Finnish player got blocked on FACEIT due to support for Ukraine

Today Finnish player Otto “ottob” Virtanen in his Twitter shared that after saying in the chat “SLAVA UKRAINE” got blocked on Faceit for 1 week. According to the player this happened at the request of sugaR and synyx who have admin friends, which is completely absurd.

Synyx was living in Ukraine in 2016, but now plays for Russian teams and throws complaints about such text, which is very shameful of him and is not accepted by any norms.

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Situation Details

During ottob with his friends he got caught up against the backbone of Insilio, Get_Jeka and synyx, where during one of the rounds he wrote in chat:

Good day to donate some money to Ukraine. Glory to Ukraine!

 

After which Ukrainian synyx, wrote the following in chat:

Ottob you have no parents. You were found in a garbage dump.

 

For a professional player, using such words is simply unacceptable, and especially when you are reacting to the words about your native country in which there is a war. I'd like to see Faceit's reaction to this, but so far they haven't commented on it.

Community reaction

Under his Twitter post, most of the community is supporting him and thanking him for his stance, which makes him confident. Also, many have commented negatively about synyx and his behavior.

Ukrainian citizen synyx (who lives in russia and plays with russia of course) writes out a Finn saying “Glory to Ukraine” that he was found in a dumpster. If someone someday in Ukraine wants to take this client to the team, it will be the ultimate for reputation. Let this synyx, as an expert on dumpsters, play with russia for the rest of his life. So that we will never hear of him

petr1k

Lushpen synyx have you lost your way?

yXo

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Conclusion

Situations like this should not happen at all, that a player is blocked for saying when he supports and recommends players to support a country at war. And synyx showed another moment of his real behavior, which is very humiliating.