Carlos “ocelote” Rodríguez, the founder and former CEO of G2 Esports, is doubling down on his admiration of misogynist social media persona Andrew Tate, just about guaranteeing that he received’t return in any govt capability to the Riot esports ecosystem.
Following his departure from G2 earlier this yr, Carlos created a Discord server, and screengrabs from that server posted right now confirmed Carlos heaping reward onto the well-known sexist influencer and the beliefs Tate holds expensive.
“I closely help Andrew Tate and lots of of his beliefs,” Carlos wrote. “He’s a great man who deserves all the great that he’s experiencing. I’ve met many individuals in my life. He’s undoubtedly probably the greatest males I’ve handled in 32 years of life. He’s precisely the kind of man you consider he’s.”
Over time, Tate has been suspended from varied social media platforms for views and movies that promote violence towards ladies, blame situations of sexual assault on the sufferer, and encourage different types of poisonous conduct underneath the guise of “self assist.”
Carlos’ friendship with Tate caught the general public’s eye again in September when the previous G2 CEO posted a video of himself partying with Tate and others celebrating a G2 victory. When the clip started to flow into, Carlos went on the offensive, saying that his friendships couldn’t be “policed” and that he might “celebration with whoever the fuck I would like.” G2 and Carlos each put out an apologetic assertion after, however Carlos has since deleted that apology.
The video and the fast response to it led to Carlos and G2 parting methods after a few years, and in addition value G2 a VALORANT partnership spot within the upcoming VCT 2023 season. After Carlos left, Riot suspended Carlos after he “engaged in exercise detrimental to the very best curiosity of the League and Riot Video games.”
Riot famous in its ruling that Carlos must full sensitivity coaching and govt coaching and supply proof of such earlier than Feb. 11, 2023, to return to the Riot esports ecosystem. But when his choice to double down on supporting Tate is any indication, it appears he has little interest in doing so, and Riot will probably hold that door closed in the meanwhile.