HUNDEN lashes out: Heroic must have a hard time looking at themselves in the mirror
The 30-year-old coach responds to yesterday's video statement, expressing heavy criticism towards the Danish team and the players.
Yesterday Heroic issued a 35-minute-long video statement, where four of the implicated players in cadiaN, stavn, TeSeS, and b0rup all gave their side of the story in the disputed case between the Danish team and the former coach Nicolai “HUNDEN” Petersen.
In the video, cadiaN and company outline the entire situation from their perspective, where they at one point explain that cadiaN and stavn became aware of HUNDEN’s exploit of the spectator bug just a few hours after the first incident against Astralis.
In a comment to TV2 Sporten, HUNDEN responds to Heroic’s claims and states that his former players aren’t truthful and how they “contradict both themselves and ESIC’s verdict several times”.
- I can’t recognize much of what they have put together, but they deliver it nicely. They very well know that each of them, either participated in the exploitation of the bug, or knew about it. They also know that they have hidden the truth and lied along the way, and both the players and the management of the new organization must have a hard time looking themselves in the mirror.
They contradict both themselves and ESIC’s verdict several times in the video. First, they admit that they have talked about it in a TeamSpeak conversation, which was recorded by one of the players himself. Only to mention later in the video that they did not know anything about the case at all, HUNDEN stated to TV2 Sporten.
They have to live with the uncertainty that someone one day will speak out - HUNDEN on the Heroic players.
The case surrounding HUNDEN began back in May 2020 when the controversial coach decided to exploit the so-called spectator bug in two matches against Astralis and Spirit, which got him a 12-month ESIC ban. The disputed matter between him and Heroic was ignited again in August this year, owing to HUNDEN claiming that “some Heroic players knew about the cheating”.
Here – one and a half years after the very beginning– HUNDEN has come to a point where he feels, for his part, that the last word has been said.
- They (the Heroic players) have to live with the uncertainty that someone one day will speak out - but for my part, what has to be said, has been said. I regret that I've been naive, and I regret that I trusted people, who I tried to protect. It has been gruelling, and it would have been much easier for me if I just had shut up (…) I did what I could but I stood alone against a big machine.
You can read the entire article from TV2 Sporten right here.
Timeline of "HUNDEN Gate"
The entire case between HUNDEN and Heroic can be a bit hard to understand, due to the case having so many different chapters. We have made this timeline of events so you can get a better understanding of the situation - You can find it right here.
