Whenever you gotta go, you actually gotta go. I simply want that esports tournaments felt the identical about letting their rivals use the bathroom. Professional participant Oliver “Skiter” Lepko peed in a bottle throughout an ongoing DOTA 2 event, citing the organizers’ guidelines towards going to the bathroom throughout a match. Right here’s {a photograph} of the pee bottle in your…uhhh, enjoyment?
DPC 2023 WEU Winter Tour Division 1 is a DOTA 2 event organized by the Romanian esports firm PGL. Eight European groups compete towards one another from January 9 to 29 for a prize pool of $200,000. However that’s not what you’re all in favour of. You wish to know why an expert gamer was peeing in a bottle like he’s an Amazon supply driver.
Lepko told Jake Lucky that he would have incurred a stage 2 draft penalty (which suggests groups are delayed in selecting their heroes) if he opted to go to the toilet, which was allegedly towards the principles. Quite than put his group at a drawback or wait out the 40 minutes of a regular DOTA 2 match, Lepko took a bottle and peed in entrance of his teammates. I can’t resolve if I ought to commend him for being a group participant, or if he ought to have simply taken the penalty. He pressured his harmless teammates to see his junk, which couldn’t have been enjoyable for anybody concerned. Kotaku reached out to PGL to ask how limitless rest room breaks would have an effect on the equity of the event, however didn’t obtain a response by the point of publication. Lepko’s group had however managed to win three out of 4 matches through the event.
The strangeness of the story doesn’t cease there. Quite than apologizing and telling rivals that they might use the bathroom as a lot as they needed, PGL allegedly told Lepko to “make clear [his] earlier tweet” concerning the pee bottle. “I knew the rulebook acknowledged no rest room breaks had been allowed,” wrote Lepko. “I am going [to the] bathroom earlier than each recreation, however drank plenty of water and needed to go once more because of the lengthy recreation.” Kotaku reached out to Lepko to ask if any of his earlier tournaments had a no-bathroom rule, however didn’t obtain a response..
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The incident appears humorous on the floor, nevertheless it’s deeply fucked up that esports tournaments are simply as unhealthy about letting folks pee as Amazon is. Stand up, professional avid gamers. You don’t have anything to lose however your chains.