During NAVI’s match against TYLOO at ESL Pro League Season 21, ESL aired a TeamSpeak clip that featured a brief heated exchange between Aleksi “Aleksib” Virolainen and Mihai “iM” Ivan.
The clip, which quickly gained attention in the community, showed Aleksib expressing frustration mid-match, saying:
“Can we fucking play one round without saying something after?”
iM discusses the clip
Following the match, NAVI’s head coach, Andrey “B1ad3” Gorodenskiy, downplayed the situation, while iM has now shared his perspective on the clip and ESL’s decision to air it, calling it “full bullshit.”
Something, he said to BLAST after NAVI’s match against FURIA yesterday.
– It was bullshit. I have said it before, and I can say it here; it was full bullshit. We had so many rounds cheering for each other and then ESL decided to put this round for everyone to see – it was like what the fuck, iM said to BLAST in a post-match interview yesterday.
[post_preview url="https://pley.gg/imperial-fe-captain-our-invites-werent-deserved/"]Do you feel a bit thrown under the bus with that clip?
– No. Me and Aleksi were joking whenever we were fully chilling, Aleksib asked me: Do you have problems? And then I was like: Yes, I have many problems, iM stated with a smile.
Who was most upset about that clip getting leaked?
– Aleksi didn’t know. He found out pretty late. But we were just very frustrated because of that clip, only because after our call for the next round got leaked – which is not pretty nice. I mean you can show this little fight, whatever, but don’t give our strats away. That’s full annoying.
The debated TeamSpeak clip can be seen in the video below.
Full post-match interview
You can see the entire post-match interview with iM after NAVI’s victory against FURIA here.
