G2 Esports CEO Carlos steps down following Andrew Tate controversy IG: CarlosFollowing the controversy caused after being spotted with Andrew Tate, G2 Esports founder and CEO Carlos Rodr\u00edguez has announced that he\u2019s officially leaving the organization. Carlos has been with G2 Esports from the beginning, when the organization was still Gamers2. During his time as CEO, G2 has turned into one of the largest organizations in esports. After his controversial appearance with Andrew Tate, Carlos was initially hit with eight weeks of unpaid leave. Carlos\u2019 association with Tate led to outcry from fans of the organization, esports personalities, and even members of G2, resulting in Carlos\u2019 suspension and, now, his departure from the company. Carlos announces he is stepping down from G2 Carlos has revealed that he\u2019ll be leaving G2, the organization he founded, in a video posted to his personal twitter account. Carlos reflected on his time with G2 Esports over the years. \u201cThis is a very hard ending to what has been otherwise been a very meaningful, joyful experience.\u201d He followed that by saying that he was taking \u201cfull responsibility over everything that went on in the last few days.\u201d G2 Esports have issued a statement of their own as well. In the statement, G2 clarified that they \u201cdo not support any form of misogyny\u201d and that they are \u201cfully committed to continuing the legacy of G2.\u201d Carlos\u2019 departure from the organization comes just days after he said he would do \u201canything to protect this company and my colleagues\u201d in a tweet made in response to the eight weeks of unpaid leave. This news comes after G2 was reportedly denied a Valorant partnership spot as a result of their CEO\u2019s controversy with Tate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
G2 Esports CEO Carlos steps down following Andrew Tate controversy IG: CarlosFollowing the controversy caused after being spotted with Andrew Tate, G2 Esports founder and CEO Carlos Rodr\u00edguez has announced that he\u2019s officially leaving the organization. Carlos has been with G2 Esports from the beginning, when the organization was still Gamers2. During his time as […]<\/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-66616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66616","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=66616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}