M80 briefly drops Overwatch participant as alleged screenshots appearing racist language seem on-line

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The screenshots had been shared publicly by means of consumer @viewerOW on X (previously Twitter), additionally recognized merely as Viewer, who says a “burner account” despatched them the alleged pictures of s9mm, Christian “Ojee” Han, and Michael “mikeyy” Konicki the usage of the n-word again and again. Viewer claims the photographs had been taken by means of French Overwatch Global Cup gamers, as Ojee was once allegedly nonetheless logged into Discord on one in every of their PCs.

Viewer additionally claims they reached out to s9mm, who admitted to the usage of the beside the point language. Additionally they claimed they had been “asked to join a call with an employee of M80 and s9mm” and stated that the worker threatened them into now not sharing the screenshots. Mereu denied that declare, and instructed Dot Esports that “no employee of M80 has contacted them,” including that if somebody contacted them to the behalf of the gamers, “they were not from M80.”

M80 is one in every of a tiny collection of organizations that experience already re-entered the aggressive Overwatch scene following the split of the Overwatch League and the go back to an noticeable ecosystem. Mereu instructed Dot Esports the day gone by he felt that it was once a just right hour to tug a “low risk bet” when requested why the group selected to go into aggressive Overwatch.