Faker and Canna were criticized by the LPL community for their sarcastic actions against the Chinese

Not only receiving defeat in the group stage series at Mid-Season Cup 2020T1 also suddenly got into a controversy when Canadian player Theirs is a fan community forum Chinese League of Legends bring out criticize.

Specifically in the match against TOP Esports, Canna there was an act of flashing the Twitch champion in the first pick. It seems like nothing, but the problem is that Twitch’s nickname in the Korean version is “plague rat”. While in the Chinese version, this general has a much more difficult nickname with the meaning of “the origin of evil”.

Somehow, a part of fans China inferred that Canna was referring to China as the origin of the plague. I don’t know if it’s because China is the outbreak epidemicwhich has given rise to discrimination in some parts of the world towards this country, which gamer community It’s a bit sensitive here when it comes to keywords related to the epidemic.

As soon as I got information about my illness, League of Legends community Criticized by China, a character in T1 said that Canna is feeling extremely bewildered. Canna kept sending messages to everyone, explaining that he had absolutely no idea what Twitch meant in the Chinese version.

It’s okay for Canna herself to be misunderstood, but even Faker was also drawn into this story because he smiled after Canna chose Twitch and switched to Trundle afterwards. So, LPL . community I think Faker responded to the joke sarcasm by Canna.

On Score.gg, Chinese fans erupted into a heated argument, with many saying that Faker was just a hypocrite. Of course, Faker has an extremely large fan base in China and not everyone agrees with those criticisms. If Faker was an arrogant and hypocritical person, he wouldn’t have been admired by so many other players.

Not to mention dragging Faker into this incident is really an absurd act. He just laughed while ban-picking, which couldn’t be more normal, but extreme fans inferred that Faker was laughing at the Chinese. This is actually quite a baseless inference.

T1 President – Joe Marsh had to personally correct it on T1’s official Weibo page.

“Hi, I’m the CEO of T1 – Joe Marsh. I want to explain to everyone what happened yesterday, during the pick/ban phase of the mid game T1 vs TOP Esports. Our player Canna entered the character “ㅌ” to find the Trundle champion. In Korean, Trundle and Twitch share this character, and he accidentally clicked on Twitch because the two champions are located close to each other. This choice does not have any special implications as speculated by netizens. T1 has made great efforts in supporting China in epidemic prevention and control, and will maintain that effort in the future. I hope that fans can forgive misunderstandings and continue to support us at LCK Summer is coming.”​