A professional player playing in the Overwatch League discovered on Twitter that he was fired from his team.
Communication on Twitter is an exercise that can be perilous, especially if things are not perfectly clear beforehand. The Alpine team in Formula 1 can attest to this: she announced on August 2, 2022 the arrival of Oscar Piastri for the 2022-2023 season, alongside Esteban Ocon… but the new recruit denied right after on the social network. Faintness.
It is certainly this same feeling of embarrassment that must have gripped the staff of New York Excelsior on August 10. It turns out that this team, which evolves at a high level on the video game Overwatchtook the initiative to report the departure of one of the players on Twitter… without first checking that he had been informed, like the rest of his partners.
A departure announced in a tweet, without the person concerned being aware
The embarrassment for New York Excelsior, but also and above all the incomprehension on the side of the player victim of this thank you: it all started with a first message – now deleted – published by the official account of New York Excelsior on Twitter, in which the departure of the person concerned Myunb0ng, whose real name is Seo Sang-min, was recorded.
” Today we say goodbye to Myunb0ng. We want to thank him for his dedication and hard work over the past year and wish him the best for all his future endeavours. “, could we read then. An image showing the player accompanied this message, with a large text in which was written ” Thanks, Myunb0ng. »
The 23-year-old Myunb0ng had joined Team USA on January 7, 2022, after being with another Overwatch League team, Boston Uprising, between October 2019 and October 2021. The Overwatch League is the division of elite of this first-person shooter, in which two teams of six compete on various maps and to accomplish various objectives.
The player, originally from South Korea, like so many other members of the Overwatch League elsewhere (the entire current squad of New York Excelsior comes from the calm morning country), obviously expressed his surprise on Twitter, reacting to the tweet with several interrogative messages, such as this one and that one. Sign that he had not been warned upstream.
What is all the more cruel is that he unknowingly welcomed his replacement. This, just before reading the unfortunate tweet from New York excelsior. He had no doubt that An Soon-jae’s arrival in the team meant he was going to lose his place. An Soon-jae plays “support”, like Seo Sang-min. Such is the life of the very high level, but that does not prohibit putting on some form.
New York Excelsior, realizing its mistake, ended up posting an apology the same day. ” We failed to communicate properly with the team before this announcement was made. “, writes the team. She undertakes in passing to revise her way of communication to avoid in the future to reproduce such an inelegant sequence. As for Seo Sang-min, he still has to bounce back elsewhere.