The incident was announced by Team Liquid as follows: “After the match against the Japanese Rainbow Six Siege – CAG Osaka, the team's player Diaslucasbr has posted an article with sensitive content. Lucas made a wrong decision in a hot -tempered moment after a heavy failure.
He searched for a gif using general keywords to describe how his team “exploded” in their defeat, and when choosing a GIF that fits his emotional intensity, he did not realize how this image connected to a painful moment in Japanese history. We believe that Lucas has no bad intention, but is a very serious mistake in awareness. “
Team Liquid and Diaslucasbrs both apologized to members of the CAG Osaka team, fans of Liquid team and the Japanese Esports community for this mistake of Lucas. At the same time, Lucas will be fined 4 months of salary, participating in the course of professional behavior, the whole Rainbow Six Siege team used bonuses in the last tournament for charitable purposes.
Finally, the Liquid team confirmed that Honda will officially end. The Honda side announced: “After a period of consideration, AHM (American Honda Motor Co.) decided to terminate the contract with the Esports Team Liquid organization with behaviors that were not suitable for the values of Honda and unacceptable.”
The two have started cooperating since 2019 and Honda has appeared in many activities of the Liquid team, even appearing in the names of eSports teams, such as the League of Legends team of this organization, the full name is Team Liquid Honda. After finishing cooperation with Honda, Team Liquid will now have 9 partners with many famous names such as Monster Energy, Secretlab or Visa.
