Nix commented on TaiLung’s statement regarding his suspension from The International 2026 and PGL tournaments

I read what TaiLung supposedly wrote, in short: “Give me direct proof, because you guys haven’t actually done anything that I’m being accused of there,” and so on. Where’s the proof? The funny thing is that you can’t catch a “322” player. Only someone who’s worked with him can rat him out, but if they’re working successfully together, he naturally won’t do that, because he’s their gold mine. So there are only circumstantial stories here. Damn, what kind of example should I give? Well, let’s say, cheating. A hypothetical Andrei walks in on his wife Yulia and sees that she’s messaging someone and giggling. And he says to her: “Yulia, like, come on…” Okay, let’s say he—I don’t know—sees a notification where some guy is messaging her something, let’s say, of a sexual nature. She replies with something or other, that’s it. He saw it indirectly. He says to her, “Yulia, *** [damn it], give me your phone.” Well, because he’d already been in a situation where, as I understand it, his teammates approached him at boot camp and said something like: “Give us your phone, we’re going to check it right now.” She says, “No, like, *** [back off], I’m not giving you my phone,” back and forth. He tells her, “Fine, then pack up your stuff and *** [get out] of here.” In the end, he walks out of the room—something like that, I don’t know—she packs her things, and then she’s like: “Damn, you know, I was thinking (she deleted the chat on Telegram, that kind of thing), maybe you can check my phone,” roughly speaking. But it wasn’t the same as before. And even if he doesn’t find direct evidence, he kind of gets the picture.

And here it’s the same thing. The guy totally blew it, as far as I can tell, when he handed over his phone, thinking they wouldn’t find the chat history. When they found the chat history, he snatched the phone and threw it against the wall, as I understood it. And he says, “Oh, I’m just a kid; I acted, let’s say, impulsively.” Basically, some adult wrote that text for him. But obviously, those aren’t his own thoughts, and it really sounds stupid. And then there’s this post he wrote: “Guys, I’m sorry, it’s all over, guys, forgive me, it’s all over.” And then he deleted it. Again, someone saw it, and someone messaged him: “Are you *** [crazy]? You can’t prove ‘322’—delete the post, and we’ll get back on track.” Maybe not with LGD, maybe further down the line—well, I don’t know, anyway. Maybe I’m just, so to speak, picking on the poor guy, but this whole thing is very, very, very suspicious. And I understand why they did that, why he was benched, and why his teammates don’t want to play with him. But in reality, yeah, you can’t really prove it. It’s all circumstantial evidence. It’s like at Streamers Battle back then, when we caught that smurfer on Rostik’s team. If they hadn’t admitted themselves in [the messenger] that they were using a smurf account, we wouldn’t have had any proof of it. Although, in reality, everyone kind of gets it.

He also says this funny thing, like, “Check my bank card—there’s no money on it.” And yet there are all these bets with proof on those accounts—the ones that were pouring in $100,000 at a time—and they were all made with crypto. So how are you supposed to check that, man? Let’s look at the card—there’s nothing there. Are you exchanging that crypto for cash, or something else? Well, anyway, it’s weird. And also, again, it seems to me that in situations like this, you need to be as open to communication as possible right from the start—not after you’ve talked to a lawyer who just sends you some long-winded text about how to do it right. There doesn’t seem to be any friendliness in this at all. And that’s why I don’t know, honestly. I wonder how this will all end.