In a post on Russian social media site VK, he said: 'I won't be participating at the upcoming Epicenter Major that will be played in my home country unless Valve openly speaks about this case and ensures consistency and transparency when it comes to treating racism in our game.'
Regardless of the situation that lead to these words being said, clearly no-one, especially not one of the most public figures in Dota, should be saying things such as this, but it is unfortunately a relatively common occurrence in Dota 2 matches.Īfter seeing the comments when they were posted to Reddit, Alexei 'Solo' Berezin, a Russian pro player for Virtus.Pro, decided enough was enough. The match was a standard Dota 2 game where Ceb was put on a team with some players from Russia, the game did not go favourably for his team, and Ceb's version of events state the Russian players were 'toxic' and 'game-ruining.' Ceb, third from left, celebrates winning The International with his team.
These are messages posted in the team chat in a game of Dota 2 by Sébastien 'Ceb' Debs, the off-lane player for professional team OG and reigning TI champion.
