Team Falcons demands SoNNeiKo's disqualification from PGL Wallachia Season 2

Team Falcons issued an official statement demanding PGL to disqualify the full support of AVULUS, Akbar SoNNeiKo Butaev, from PGL Wallachia Season 2. If the organizers do not fulfill the team's request, Falcons will be forced to voluntarily leave the tournament.

The statement is related to today's incident between SoNNeiKo and Team Falcons offlaner Ammar ATF Al-Assaf at the PGL Wallachia Season 2 tournament: the AVULUS player started threatening ATF and even tried to start a fight with him. Falcons emphasized that the safety of its players is its top priority.

The organization also thanked PGL for paying attention to the situation and assigning security to the team.

Today, a serious incident with Avulus player Sonneiko has occurred against our player ATF during PGL Wallachia before the match between the two teams.

Whilst teams were waiting at the hotel, Sonneiko has approached ATF, putting his arm around him, and issued him serious physical threats. These threats then escalated to an even more direct level of physical altercation when Sonneiko requested ATF to 'step outside' of the hotel to physically confront him.

This reached a point where the Avulus manager requested Sonneiko to 'stop'. Upon being ignored, both the Avulus manager and our own then had to get involved directly and pull Sonneiko away from ATF.

The entire incident was seen by PGL staff and admins.

We are deeply disappointed with PGL's decision to issue the draft penalty for such a serious incident and are concerned for our players' safety at the event. Whilst we appreciate that PGL will now be providing a security guard to the team, we will not stand for threats of physical violence being put on our players, and we must ensure a zero tolerance policy for these kind of behaviours. Safety of players must always come first.

We call on PGL to take stricter action towards the involved player by removing him from the tournament. Until this occurs, Falcons will be internally deciding on whether we continue with the event.

Nothing is more important for us at Falcons than our players and staff safety – neither should it be for a tournament organiser.

PGL Wallachia Season 2 runs from October 4 to 13. Sixteen teams are participating in the tournament. The event's prize pool is $1,000,000.

As previously reported by Cyberscore.live, AVULUS received a penalty at PGL Wallachia Season 2 following the conflict between SoNNeikO and ATF.