The professionalCS:GOplayer “Destroyer” faces some major criticism from fans and fellow players, after displaying what seemed to be a homophobic phrase on a borrowed skin during a recent tournament.
This was all during theCS:GOPerfect World Asia League Summer 2020 on July 10, when Chinese team Invictus Gaming faced off against their competitors, the Mongolians. After a great round against their opposing team, one of Invictus Gaming’s team members– Destroyer –displayed his knife, which had the words “LGBT slayer” written across it.
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The match’s commentator Jason Kaplan, who was casting the event himself, quickly became aware of this and screenshot the knife on screen. He then tweeted out his reaction, stating that he’s “seen some disgusting namesfor player’s skins” inCS:GO, but Destroyer’s knife “takes the cake,” calling it “f**ked up.”
Some of those that saw Kaplan’s tweet agreed with him, stating that the player should be disqualified orbanned by Valve itself. Many other responses were far less agreeing however, with many stating that Kaplan was just being sensitive to the matter. It was brought up that, as Destroyer is Chinese, its quite possible that he had received the knife through a trade with it already being named and possibly didn’t even know what the words had meant or represented.
About a half hour later, Kaplan followed up his original tweet with a second one confirming that the knife was indeed borrowed, and that Destroyer will no longer be using it. But he added that, in the future, players should look up phrases ifthey aren’t sure of their meaning. “Being a Professional Player,” Kaplan continued, “you are held to a higher standard and shouldn’t allow something like this to happen.”
It was never made clear of whether Destroyer knew the meaning behind the knife’s phrase or not, but according to Kaplan, he and the rest of his team are now fully aware of it and will not be using the knife anymore. Whether Kaplan was overreacting or not, it’s important to bring issues like this to light. This is far from the first timeCS:GOplayers have gotten into trouble,with some tournament winners getting caught cheating earlier this year.
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