Joel ”emilio” Mako has lost yet another opportunity in the competitive scene due to his VAC status at the Birdie LAN.
After shocking the CS:GO community with his live VAC ban during Team Property's match versus Hellraisers, Joel ”emilio” Mako has been repeatedly barred from participating in the majority of tournaments and LANs, in addition from being dropped from Property's roster. One of the few organizations who didn't immediately turn him down, Birdie, has now announced that they as well will be turning him down from the upcoming Birdie LAN in Uppsala, Sweden.
Birdie chairman Lezgin Bakircioglu explains the decision:
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[emilio] hasn’t made it clear to us there was a history with an active VAC ban, he asked us about the general rules and we pointed him to the general rules since the CS:GO rules weren’t done.But later we saw everything that was written about him and understood it was the same person. After that we’ve discussed internally and have come to the conclusion that we can’t accept a player that has an active VAC ban. This is the kind of thing you catch as you go along, but since he’s been so obvious about it we could catch it early.”
emilio had the following to say about the ejection:
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Recently things haven’t been easy for me because I haven’t had any competitions to participate in because of the incident. But I’ve been playing actively and streamed as much as possible for a long period of time because I know I’m not done with CS. I’ve learned a lot in a short time, and especially grown. I can promise that cheating won’t happen again, even though it was fun in matchmaking it ruined my career more or less, and there’s nothing that’s worth the risk. I’m sorry I didn’t think of the consequences beforehand. There’s not much to say regarding this. Even Messi, who is the greatest football player of all time have people who hate him. Of course this is a big setback for me. I had planed to go and compete with some well renowned players. But considering this there’s not much I can do. I will stream and play – when I have time.”
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