Seven rivals on the current Counter-Strike BLAST Paris Main have been named on Might 26 within the Ukrainian Sports activities Ministry’s listing of 236 athletes who broke the nation’s journey legal guidelines by failing to return to Ukraine after the competitors.
Following the onset of Russia’s ongoing struggle in Ukraine, the nation’s declaration of martial legislation banned all male Ukrainian nationals between 18 and 60 years previous from leaving the nation. One of many few exceptions to this was for sporting occasions, with the nation’s sports activities ministry approving choose international journey so long as the athlete returns to Ukraine after the competitors has ended.
As initially reported by escorenews, the Ukrainian Ministry of Youth and Sports activities launched an inventory of 236 athletes on Might 26 who had did not return on the date anticipated of them, which included seven CS:GO gamers.
These have been Viktor “sdy” Orudzhev, Volodymyr “Woro2k” Veletnjuk, and Serghij “DemQQ” Demchenko from Monte and Arsenyj “cptkurtka023” Derevynskyj, Denys “amster” Ljashenko, Aleksei “alex666” Yarmoshchuk, and Mykhajlo “OWNER” Lymar from B8. Monte’s CEO, Dmytro Vovk, was additionally included on the listing.
Monte was one of many massive surprises of the BLAST Paris Main, notably beating their fellow countrymen, Natus Vincere, to ultimately end within the prime eight. B8 in the meantime competed within the European RMR A qualifier simply earlier than the principle event, the place they have been eradicated by Cloud9.
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Following the discharge of the listing, Monte apologised to the ministry and defined the scenario in a submit on Telegram. The assertion stated that that they had been cleared by the sports activities ministry to compete overseas within the European RMR B qualifier up till April 16 however opted to interrupt the restriction and keep till the top of the Main itself on Might 21 when DemQQ and Woro2k returned.
Sdy, in the meantime, travelled to Poland, the place he performed the web ESL Challenger League video games towards Group Spirit Academy and Sprout and plans to return “in just a few days.”
Monte ended their assertion by saying “We glorified Ukraine and made it to the quarter-final of the most important event. They shouted ‘Glory to Ukraine’ at an viewers of thousands and thousands. They talked about the struggle of their interviews. They held conferences to assist the Armed Forces of Ukraine. And we proceed to do every part to adequately characterize our nation. We apologise to the Ministry of Youth and Sports activities of Ukraine for not returning residence on time to make the entire above doable.”
The assertion doesn’t point out the whereabouts of Monte’s CEO, and B8 has but to launch a press release in regards to the gamers included on the listing.
What the punishment might be for breaking the journey guidelines is at the moment unclear however it’s prone to make journey overseas for the athletes listed considerably tougher sooner or later. Monte’s subsequent worldwide LAN occasion is scheduled to be the ESL Professional League Season 18 in Malta, which begins on August 30.
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