On July 24, the mysterious Twitter account @nicekeybinds posted a complete Google Doc accusing MarsArxa, a member of the all-women Valorant esports crew Fallacy, and her boyfriend Nate ‘Payen’ Lopez of dishonest. The incident occurred throughout a match organized by Galorants, a group house for feminine and non-binary gamers of the League of Legends developer Riot Video games’ team-based battle royale. Each gamers have been quiet because the allegations surfaced (Lopez didn’t reply to Kotaku’s request for remark in time for publication, Mars put her Twitter on personal), and Galorants has but to deal with the difficulty, having as a substitute spent the weekend placing out fires made by its fuzzy Astral Clash Tournament rules and unsportsmanlike conduct unrelated to those allegations.
@nicekeybinds has additionally been silent since dropping the flowery doc, which was put collectively after the writers watched a successful stream clip Mars posted and deemed her response disproportionately lowkey.
“We don’t know what sort of individual says completely nothing after successful a 1v5 versus a properly revered signed crew,” the doc says.
Then, in devoted element, it factors out each discrepancy between Mars’ typical playstyle and settings and Lopez’s, which had been discovered by evaluating streaming clips posted on their Twitter accounts. That features completely different keybinds, mini-maps of various sizes, and completely different body charges. The doc additionally notes that Lopez performed a ranked recreation with 4 Fallacy crew members the day earlier than the match.
“Mars is lacking from this recreation,” the doc says, “maybe in order that this roster may observe collectively with out her.”
The match that Mars allegedly cheated in was a “final probability” qualifier to 4 groups incomes an all-expenses paid journey to the Astral Conflict finals in Southern California on August 6. Workforce Fallacy made it in, however their qualification actually depends upon whether or not or not Lopez performed for Mars, which esports character Jake Lucky says Riot Video games is wanting into.
Workforce Fallacy was in one other bind earlier this summer time, when screenshots emerged of gamers encouraging a male-identifying participant to “do a no binary change” with the intention to compete with them. Mars was concerned in that controversy too, writing on Discord that her crew was “simply attempting to compete in peace.”
Except for previous controversy, this new doc about Mars is notably elaborate contemplating it was written a few comparatively unknown Valorant participant with 136 Twitch followers and a modest $300 in competitors winnings. However I suppose some folks actually wish to go to California.
