Starcraft e-sports hits the big time

Posted by on October 14, 2012 in Games

In his apology for bragging about how he fucked a 14-year-old, competitive Starcraft II player Ilyes Satouri says it was a private joke. Unlike the time he was arrested (pictured) for publicly vomiting all over a Swedish nightclub. Satouri’s private joke was broadcast when he sent it to someone who was participating in a live stream on TwitchTV.

The look on his chat partner’s face is priceless.

Satouri’s team suspended him for the rest of this month. This means he’ll be back on November 1st, at which point sponsors like Monster and Intel will implicitly condone e-athletes who brag about fucking minors.

  • Doug

    “e-athletes who brag about fucking minors.”

    Or statutory rapists.

  • mygaffer

    “This means he’ll be back on November 1st, at which point sponsors like
    Monster and Intel will implicitly condone e-athletes who brag about
    fucking minors.”
    If it makes money and grows the brand they’ll implicitly condone just about anything. Of course you and I know that your statement is hyperbolic and that their investment in no way represents what you seem to consider to be the most heinous crime of making horribly inappropriate jokes on the Internet. Oh the shame.

  • Chris H.

    What’s “hyperbolic” about it when you admit that this is exactly what is likely to happen? I’m not sure you actually know what that word means.

  • Eznark

    Id say this might win him an Oscar but he doesnt say anything about drugging the child.

  • unclean

    Okay, so he “jokes” about statutory and all that comes out of it is two weeks without pay and one missed tournament?

    Even if it is a joke you think he’d get something more severe just for publicly acting like an idiot kid.

  • Ruskov

    Agree.He must be send to Guantanamo,that will teach him.

  • Ryan

    Guys, this is the only foreign player that can consistently beat Koreans. I think there is a greater good working here…

  • Mercanis

    Getting arrested in purple pants? Amazing.

    If I were ringmaster of that little circus, my approach would be a bit more zero-tolerance. Then again, I predict I’d soon run out of players to fire.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=53602138 Matt Smith

    What’s most ridiculous is that his own team is the only one suspending him. The tournaments and leagues themselves? I can’t find any statement from them at all. So I guess the message is that Starcraft 2 players can do and say whatever they’d like and still be eligible to compete for big-buck tournaments.

  • Anonymous

    There will be no other punishment until the customers of his sponsors, and the customers of Blizzard, complain. Why should these companies care if their customers don’t?

  • Mygaffer

    Why should their customer’s care? He made an offensive joke when he thought only his friend could here him. Is that such a terrible thing?

  • Mygaffer

    Why should he be suspended?

  • Mygaffer

    “Hyperbolic refers to something related to or in shape of hyperbola (a type of curve), or to something employing the literary device of hyperbole (overstatement or plausible exaggeration).”
    Yup, I know what it means, do you? Passive aggressive is such an ugly color on you.