niko after ESIC report: I didn’t understand the implications and severity of HUNDEN’s actions
The former Heroic player opens up about how his personal health suddenly has become a public matter and how he regrets having trusted HUNDEN.
This Monday ESIC released a report in the case concerning Nicolai “HUNDEN” Petersen’s claims about certain Heroic players involvement in the Spectator Bug Scandal. In the finalized report, the 23-year-old Nikolaj “niko” Petersen has been found guilty after admitting his complicity in the cheating abuse.
The Esports Integrity Commissioner, Ian Smith touches on niko’s verdict in the 19-pages long report, where Smith explains that niko has been “ruthlessly manipulated and set up” by HUNDEN in an attempt to incriminate himself or his former teammates. The newly-published report also revealed that niko has ADHD and Asperger’s Syndrome, something ESIC believes has been an essential factor to understand niko’s involvement.
“Upon consulting with the ADHD and Asperger’s Team at the National Autistic Society and the ADHD Foundation, ESIC was informed that this would have significantly impacted his ability to know right from wrong, make values-based decisions on his own and communicate effectively in a conventional way”
After ESIC’s statement this Monday, niko decided to open up about the case on Twitter, touching on how his personal health suddenly has become a public matter and how he regrets having trusted HUNDEN. In a long Twitter thread, niko states:
- My personal health has never been something I wanted to talk about in public. (…) at the time I did not understand the implications and severity of Hunden's actions. I regret to have trusted Hunden and I regret to not have understood the implications of his actions earlier than I did.
You can read the entire Twitter thread here:
