Dota 2 player 23savage recounts police visit to KL bootcamp
Xipto Esports player 23savage says Kuala Lumpur detectives handcuffed him at a team bootcamp before a live Dota 2 match helped establish his identity.
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Xipto Esports Dota 2 player Nuengnara “23savage” Teeramahanon says Kuala Lumpur police detectives handcuffed him during a visit to his team’s bootcamp house, then let him return to playing after he demonstrated his skills in a match. The Thai player described the encounter in a Facebook post published on 13 October.
According to 23savage, the team had finished practice and its members were relaxing on their phones when a group of detectives entered the house. He said they collected passports and phones, and shut down the internet and computers.
Questions about their work
23savage said he was handcuffed alongside Saieful “Fbz” Ilham and Chon Kien “Oli” Chan. They were held for about two hours while the detectives asked what they did for a living and whether they were genuinely professional gamers.
One detective, who was wearing a France football shirt with Olise’s number 11, said he knew Dota and had heard of Fnatic, according to 23savage. The player then showed the detective his Instagram account. The officer recognised Malaysian media personality Ms. Puiyi in his photos, which 23savage said helped convince the detectives that he was a competitor and a public figure.
The questions came after the team’s practice session, but 23savage said he still needed to prepare for matches. As the tension eased, he asked how much longer the encounter would take.
A match watched by an officer
The detectives removed 23savage’s handcuffs, though not those of the others, and invited him to show his skills in a live game. With an officer watching, he played Kez and finished with 32 kills. His account says he won the match and was allowed to return to playing.
23savage ended his account on a lighter note, saying a detective helped himself to two boxes of his Nutella. Despite being handcuffed and questioned, the player wrote that he considered the episode a good experience.
His Facebook post drew around 9,000 reactions and 1,400 shares within a few hours of publication, according to the source article.
Source: Talk Esport. This article was compiled by the iBET.news newsroom from the source report and other public information.
