OpTic Gaming Player k0nfig Apparently Told to Kill Himself and His Family For Comments About FaZe Clan\u2019s GuardiaN @TheNorthIsHere \/ ELEAGUEOpTic Gaming star Kristian \u201ckonfig\u201d Wienecke has claimed that he received death threats and was told to \u2018kill his family\u2019, after he jokingly made comments about FaZe Clan player Ladislav \u201cGuardiaN\u201d Kova\u010ds. k0nfig made the comments during and after FaZe Clan\u2019s semi-final match against Astralis at the ESL Pro League Season 7 finals, which FaZe lost 2-0. GuardiaN had a particularly bad individual performance, at one point having zero frags to fifteen deaths. He finished the map 5-20, and overall was 12-36 over both maps, as Astralis effectively shut down the usually prolific AWPer. During the match, k0nfig jokingly tweeted about GuardiaN\u2019s poor performance, which some fans reacted to negatively. And not only fans, as Natus Vincere star player Aleksandr \u201cs1mple\u201d Kostyliev even told GuardiaN what roughly translates to: \u201cDo not pay attention to this bot\u201d k0nfig later tweeted, explaining that not only did some fans take his light hearted comments too seriously, they also made death threats and told him to kill his family. He explains that his comments were not intended as \u2018taking shots\u2019 at the FaZe player, but genuinely commenting on his \u2019embracing\u2019 of the score. I didn\u2019t try to fire shots at @guardiancsgo ?????? What the hell. I was happy that he embraced the score he had and still had fun. That is amazing. \u2014 Kristian Wienecke (@k0nfigCS) May 20, 2018 Getting tweets and msgs on private fb from people telling me to kill myself and kill my family is indicating that people misunderstood it \u2014 Kristian Wienecke (@k0nfigCS) May 20, 2018 GuardiaN himself seemed to have got the joke, and told k0nfig that there was no bad blood, and that when people do not understand they resort to insults. Dont worry, people are sometimes stupid and instead of trying to understand, they insult \u2014 Ladislav Kov\u00e1cs (@guardiancsgo) May 20, 2018 There is of course somewhat of a rivalry between OpTic Gaming and FaZe Clan in the history of the two organizations, but it is surprising to hear that so many were this vitriolic in response to k0nfig\u2019s comments. However, as even s1mple believed he was mocking GuardiaN, it is easy to see how some fans may have interpreted the Tweets to be directed negatively, rather than jovially as k0nfig claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OpTic Gaming Player k0nfig Apparently Told to Kill Himself and His Family For Comments About FaZe Clan\u2019s GuardiaN @TheNorthIsHere \/ ELEAGUEOpTic Gaming star Kristian \u201ckonfig\u201d Wienecke has claimed that he received death threats and was told to \u2018kill his family\u2019, after he jokingly made comments about FaZe Clan player Ladislav \u201cGuardiaN\u201d Kova\u010ds. k0nfig made the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}