Jamppi\u2019s tragedy: How a VAC banned CSGO Pro was forced to play Valorant Pro player Elias \u2018Jamppi\u2019 Olkkonen has learned the hard way that friends don\u2019t always do you favors, and with his name tied to a VAC banned CS:GO account, the young player is currently unable to take part in Counter-Strike\u2019s Majors. With his whole career ahead of him, Jamppi is now set to be moving across to Valorant \u2013 is this the right move for the Finnish talent? Previously starting out with a passion for ice hockey before being introduced to CSGO by a friend, the star eventually fell in love with the esport title. The unfortunate downfall for the star who\u2019s known to carry his teams came about when bought and sold his account to a friend when he was 14. The consequences of what that person did with the account have changed the landscape of his career forever. With organization OG looking to put together a superteam that consisted of players like Nathan \u2018NBK\u2019 Schmitt and Aleksi \u2018Aleksib\u2019 Virolainen alongside the Finnish star as the main fragger, the discovery of a VAC ban tarnished the star\u2019s name, and the deal was dropped. While many throughout the community feel sympathy for the star, Valve still has the ban in place, and Jamppi has moved onto greener pastures in Valorant. Citing that it would be a \u201cfresh start\u201d for him mentally, the ban was always in his mind, and Valorant\u2019s Future Earth allows him a do-over to compete with the best. For all Valorant news and events, make sure to head over to our dedicated hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jamppi\u2019s tragedy: How a VAC banned CSGO Pro was forced to play Valorant Pro player Elias \u2018Jamppi\u2019 Olkkonen has learned the hard way that friends don\u2019t always do you favors, and with his name tied to a VAC banned CS:GO account, the young player is currently unable to take part in Counter-Strike\u2019s Majors. With his […]<\/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-66697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66697","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=66697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}