[VoxMSI.Rogue]

Evil Geniuses announced today they would be suspending their newly signed French Zerg player Ilyes 'Stephano' Satouri for the month of October due to the inappropriate comments he had made to Dignitas player Samayan 'Bling' Kay.

He will be suspended without pay as well as banned from entering any online or offline tournaments including the upcoming DreamHack Bucharest.

Stephano had the following to say.

“I want to very sincerely apologize to all of my fans, my teammates and management at EG, all of EG’s sponsors, and the rest of the community for my comments last week. They were insensitive, inappropriate, way over the line, and are deserving of the serious ramifications I have received from my team. I accept responsibility for my mistake, and I will be more careful in the future.” - Ilyes 'Stephano' Satouri

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Dox:

LOL

[Dox]

As far as I can tell, no-one was actually upset by what he said...

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...but it just goes to show how much power people yield when e-mailing sponsors.

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	mGGDaedalus:	yup, people are stupid. so are SRS
	NvPinder:	HOLY SHIT BLINGS FACE HAHAHAHAHAHA

[ETL.ViTaL]

Serves him right I think Evil geniuses were right to punish him- that doesn't put out the greatest image for Stephano himself and EG as a team whether or not it was a joke.

[Asrathiel]

They need to realise they're in the public eye representing people who are financially supporting them, and act accordingly! Hopefully this helps...

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Cyanide:

agreed

[Fairyking]

He made a joke to his friend and didn't realize his friend was streaming. Leave the guy alone imo lol. He apologized the second he realized. I agree that they should act proper when being around fans etc or when streaming but he didn't know his friend was streaming. People make mistakes, e-sports fans etc should not care as much as they don't get the reference of the joke that his friend did.

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crAzerk:

what was the reference?

[mGGAequitas]

bling probly should have mentioned that he was streaming lol

[PiG]

Dumbest thing I've read all week. Sad little s**** that go and post this on reddit

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SLCN.Kez:

agreed

[FsDronesInJail]

A month for this?.......... lol

[ikki]

I guess people dont have better things to do than take things out of context...

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Fairyking:

Pretty much lol.

[Maynarde]

So ridiculous

[Unstable]

No matter how stupid or ridiculous you think a joke is, doesn't mean someone else doesn't take major offence to it. Regardless if it was meant to be in private or not welcome to the world of public scrutiny and having to be politically correct at all times.

[syfChadMann]

That's silly - let him play his games. :-(

EDIT: yeah - read what he actually said - not good -_-

[NvRossi]

after listening to most of this podcast

i think it might be 5-10 mins after the time linked http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...R_7mio#t=5069s

The Razor esports fella talks about similar issues to this and after listening to him i find this a very reasonable reaction by EG.

The important thing is hes not getting kicked off the team!

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Baldie:

Thanks for link lot's of great info re sponsors in here!

[AuXCoolpuff]

ah man that sucks =/

[syfChase]

EG Curse! :Þ

Unfortunate for Stephano, but we're all human. To me the punishment seems quite severe, but if you're representing arguably the strongest team in North America as of now I can see where they're coming from.

[BearPack]

People need to stop emailing sponsors over shock-value shit.

[[TOG]Chrisau]

I think whether he is representing a sponsoring company/team or not, making those kind of jokes is offensive and just not cool. Starcraft aside, I think some people want to come across as being 'the funny guy/girl' so much that they don't even stop and think about whether the jokes they're saying are appropriate/offensive to other people. See this alot these days (on TV, the Internet). So in Stephano's case, hopefully he learns from it.

[PiG]

Yeah @unstable @rossi I agree it's really fine for the organisation to do this. It's just sad as shit that due to the nature of the exposure in eSports being so up close and personal with the players that a conversation he thinks is completely private gets seen on stream.

Add the nature of a minority of the viewers that dig up drama and add technology (Screen capture + reddit) the slightest things often get taken out and exposed to the public. And it's not just like when a rugby player supposedly said something and there's back and forth about if it's true. There's a digital copy that gets shown to the whole world.

It's fine. It's just stupid as all hell that this happened over some shittalking. Ah wells, tis the nature of the beast...

[Cyanide]

I think it's a good thing in the end.

It sets a precedent for other teams. It raises the maturity and professionalism of the sport (at least I hope it would, eventually) that we all want to see grow.

[iM MaFia]

normally a months ban with no pay or tourneys would be pretty harsh for a progamer, but its stephano i think he'll be ok