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Imaqtpie to be kicked from Dignitas?
A storm of drama seems to be unfolding in the North American scene in the aftermath of IEM Hanover. The latest rumour is a juicy one: AD carry player Imaqtpie might be dropped from the Dignitas roster.
By Pieter 'Shark3D' Cortebeeck
Mar 19, 2012 04:39
A storm of drama seems to be unfolding in the North American scene in the aftermath of IEM Hanover. The latest rumour is a juicy one: AD carry player Imaqtpie might be dropped from the Dignitas roster.Due to 
Joe 'Voyboy' Esfahani not turning off his stream in time, private information leaked into the public eye, and word of a discussion within team Dignitas hit the official NA LoL forum.
Apparently, Michael 'Imaqtpie' Santana had a lot of connection problems in the fatal1ty-sponsored North American League of Legends tournament, which caused him to drop from a live match. Shortly after the first disconnect he rejoined the game and asked his team: "Did we win yet?", only to leave the game again. To make matters worse, he rejoined the game again later on, asked his team the same question, and ran facefirst into the enemy team all by himself, resulting in a death. After which he disconnected from the game once more. Some serious trolling indeed.
This disrespectful behaviour coupled with a complete lack of remorse for his actions seems to have angered his teammates, as they are contemplating removing him from the lineup.
We recently saw Christian 'TheRainMan' Kahmann stepping down from playing the top lane for Team SoloMid , as well as Dan 'DanDinh' Dinh being benched on Epik Gaming . If this rumour is confirmed, the total number of players removed from their teams will rise to three, and team Team Dignitas will be on the lookout for a new AD carry player.
What do you think? Is this type of behaviour ever acceptable?
Comment below and share your opinion!
Joe 'Voyboy' Esfahani not turning off his stream in time, private information leaked into the public eye, and word of a discussion within team Dignitas hit the official NA LoL forum.Apparently,
Michael 'Imaqtpie' Santana had a lot of connection problems in the fatal1ty-sponsored North American League of Legends tournament, which caused him to drop from a live match. Shortly after the first disconnect he rejoined the game and asked his team: "Did we win yet?", only to leave the game again. To make matters worse, he rejoined the game again later on, asked his team the same question, and ran facefirst into the enemy team all by himself, resulting in a death. After which he disconnected from the game once more. Some serious trolling indeed.This disrespectful behaviour coupled with a complete lack of remorse for his actions seems to have angered his teammates, as they are contemplating removing him from the lineup.
We recently saw
Christian 'TheRainMan' Kahmann stepping down from playing the top lane for Team SoloMid , as well as Dan 'DanDinh' Dinh being benched on Epik Gaming . If this rumour is confirmed, the total number of players removed from their teams will rise to three, and team Team Dignitas will be on the lookout for a new AD carry player.What do you think? Is this type of behaviour ever acceptable?
Comment below and share your opinion!
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Furthermore, it's not my freaking players behaving extremely unprofessional in a livestreamed $30k tournament.
but i don't see the reason to spread this kind of drama on respective forums.
With all due respect in LoL you can disconnect when you have problems with your internet,
and while doing so your champion usually goes back to base but it's not uncommon for the champion to AFK move in any direction before dying or eventually return to base. And who wouldn't be mad if this happened several times in an important match? But i think it's a bit hasty to think that Team Dignitas would break a contract just because of an accident.
You'd think a serious news source would atleast reach out and ask for a comment before posting crap like this http://bit.ly/FReF7c
This is exactly as the tweet was/is
Also, this happened in a tournament that was being livestreamed to thousands of people.
But something you should know about the human brain is that when a person gets upset it will make chemicals that can make you do- and say things you later would regret. So a one-time incident shouldn't be enough for a team to kick a member.I don't think they lack so much social skills that they would rather kick a member instead of fight their own rage. After all an agreement would be beneficial for all parts. If they can't then the team should really dissolve completely because then they have more issues than internet and rage, in my opinion.
I do realize this can be some juicy news, but i don't feel like it's right to paint "Imaqtpie" out as an enemy for reasons we can't confirm. Football players have internal arguments everyday, but you don't see that in the news or even making players resign. All I'm saying is that we should really let "Imaqtpie" or Team Dignitas speak up and let them tell their part of the tail.
And btw. DanDinh didn't get "benched" he had so much responsibility in TSM, so he did quit.
would believe him ^^
And if did get "benched" he'll be on a competitive team shortly.
Are you trying to set some kind of record on how much you can talk out of your ass? It was a $14k tournament (http://www.fatal1ty.com/fatal1ty-to-host-league-of-legends-online-tournament + CTRL-F)
Secondly why would ever consider reddit or NA GD a valid source of information for a news article?
Qtpie got DDOS'd or he's internet was just acting up. Either or something he couldn't have done anything about. As stated by scarra himself (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBVMtSi7i2s - from 22:20 to 25:10) but it was live streamed to thous - IRRELEVANT, READ THE ABOVE
And after everything you have stated in the article and your replies you are calling dignitas players - specifically qtpie I'd assume from the context - unprofessional? Unbelievable, I think I just got a brain tumor from imagining what kind of person you are.
thats that...