I have been watching Valorant eSports for quite sometime now and when I saw all the hate that GE gets, I was lowkey confused because yes they are a bad team but I didn't know why people were genuinely hating on these guys. Like I have seen people troll teams but the hate on GE is like full fledged hate.
Me being an Indian, I get GE content recommended pretty often and looking at the context behind it all, it lowkey makes sense and their org owner being a complete and utter dumbass is one of the biggest reasons this shit is happening.
Rushindra was apparantly asked why he doesn't pick 5 Indian players for the team. Now in this situation, a smart owner would either ignore the question or say something on the lines of "We are looking for new players, if someone gets on our radar, we will try to sign them" or just random diplomatic answer. This mf just straight up said "5 Indian players are not good enough". It sounds cool that "oh he is saying the truth" but when you have an audience full of that particular demographic, you don't say something like that as it just makes sure that when your decision fails, you are getting trolled bad. And exactly that has happened.
He also keeps making this whole point of GE being India's last hope typa shit which makes people even more riled up.
Also they are a shit team, so there's that.
Does this excuse the messages Polvi and others are getting (which I won't repeat here but are pretty bad)? No. But could this be avoided by some extent? Absolutely.
Mention if I missed something down in the comments 🙏🏻