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Forums - Politics Discussion - Overwatch Pro ends his Career with Racist Rant

Toronto Esports' Dellor most likely won't be seeing a professional team ever again after this.

 

Professional play in Overwatch is still in its infancy compared to other esports, but that shouldn't mean that its players should also act like toddlers. Toronto Esports player Matt 'Dellor' Vaughn, a 28-year-old Overwatch pro, was fired for a "breach of contract" involving a racist rant in a ranked game.

 

Unfortunately for Dellor, it seems someone was recording the match, which saw Dellor go into a racist-fueled rant, screaming the n-word for 26 uninterrupted seconds while his teammates sat in stunned silence. 

Note that the volume is loud on this video, and contains the aforementioned profanity:

“Toronto Esports is an organization built on inclusivity, and we have always had a zero-tolerance policy for any forms of discrimination,” said Toronto Esports President Ryan Pallett. “Immediately upon learning of the incident, the player was interviewed, admitted to the offense, and was notified that his contract with the organization was being terminated."

While Dellor seems apologetic in his response, it's not exactly the most mature reasoning, either

 

 

I fucked up and deserve to be dropped from Toronto Esports, I won't try to argue or make an excuse, I don't have any. I just want people to know what happened. I was having a really bad day. Didn't get much sleep, twitch wouldn't work for 2 hours after I woke up, and once it finally did, my internet was lagging. So I was pretty upset from the moment I woke up.

Then I get into a game against a widowmaker who is blatantly cheating. Everything was whatever, I've dealt with cheaters before, but when him and his entire team, and MY entire team start talking shit, it gets to me. I snapped. This isn't the first time this has happened. I have anger problems.

The only thing I can say is that despite me using that word, I am not a racist. I was extremely upset, and I was trying to make the person I was angry with upset as well, and so I said the most offensive thing that came to mind.

I fucked up, I have no excuse. Toronto Esports is a great organization and I am sorry to them for tarnishing their name. I've put my entire life into gaming/esports and this has been a massive wake up call.

 

In our eyes, this is less wake-up call and more career sabotage. The internet never forgets, especially once recorded and in press. All it will take is a Google search of Dellor's name for this incident to come to light for any prospective team owner - and since esports is almost all about image and being presentable to sponsors, this likely won't do Dellor any favors in the future.

https://pvplive.net/c/overwatch-pro-ends-career-with-racist-rant



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Well. That was..... Something.



Thats a world record



Good for him?



Made a bet with LipeJJ and HylianYoshi that the XB1 will reach 30 million before Wii U reaches 15 million. Loser has to get avatar picked by winner for 6 months (or if I lose, either 6 months avatar control for both Lipe and Hylian, or my patrick avatar comes back forever).

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Excellent, one less widowmaker main to ruin the game.



                  

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AngryLittleAlchemist said:
Forum poster ends career by lewding the dragon loli.

 

 



Captain_Yuri said:
Excellent, one less widowmaker main to ruin the game.

IKr?, I saw that crappy qs style aiming and I was glad he got killed in-game for it. QS aren't proper snipers. Last I checked, no one irl pulls the sniper lens that close every half a second, let alone trying to 360 no scope. People like that are just weird. 



Step right up come on in, feel the buzz in your veins, I'm like an chemical electrical right into your brain and I'm the one who killed the Radio, soon you'll all see

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Chazore said:
Captain_Yuri said:
Excellent, one less widowmaker main to ruin the game.

IKr?, I saw that crappy qs style aiming and I was glad he got killed in-game for it. QS aren't proper snipers. Last I checked, no one irl pulls the sniper lens that close every half a second, let alone trying to 360 no scope. People like that are just weird. 

Exactly! Heck, QS in ow doesn't even work in ow most of the time cause widowmaker needs to charge her bullet otherwise it won't be full power. But the reason I hate them is that what usually happens in my games is, there is a pharah on the enemy team, we have a widowmaker, instead of taking down the widowmaker, they would rather attack the stupid rein's shield... It is like the most urghh worthy thing ever.



                  

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