Ivan “Pure” Moskalenko, Russian player of Virtus.pro, forbidden from the official tournament Equips 2 Majorstogether with his entire team drawn a Z To support the occupation of Ukraine.
players Virtus Pro They were playing the qualifiers of Eastern European countries under the name of Foreigners. Therefore, they will not be able to participate in the ESL One Stockholm Major.
The incident took place in the semi-final match played against Beşiktaş. Mind games, a team played by two Ukrainian players so that Z was not considered accidental. As it turns out, Z was drawn on the minimap of the game and another player from Pure’s team immediately tried to delete it, but the drawing was still noticed.
Virtus.pro announced that it kicked Pure after conducting an internal investigation to figure out what happened.
However, he noted that Valve found the decision to fire an entire team for the behavior of a single player excessive, and it was seen as a bad precedent.
Source: Multiplayer
