{"id":16810,"date":"2021-05-19T00:25:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T00:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/nip-players-allegedly-receive-death-threats-over-flashpoint-controversy"},"modified":"2024-07-19T18:03:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T18:03:44","slug":"nip-players-allegedly-receive-death-threats-over-flashpoint-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/cs-go\/nip-players-allegedly-receive-death-threats-over-flashpoint-controversy","title":{"rendered":"NiP players allegedly receive death threats over Flashpoint controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The controversy continues over Ninjas in Pyjamas&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/cs-go\/anonymo-esports-forced-to-replay-flashpoint-season-3-match-by-nip\">decision to &#8220;force&#8221; a replay<\/a> against Anonymo Esports following their defeat during the Flashpoint Season 3 tournament, claiming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/cs-go\/nip-shots-fire-over-flashpoint-3-after-being-forced-to-play-with-high-packet-loss\">packet loss<\/a> prevented them from play to their fullest potential, as NiP members have reported receiving death threats for their stance on the matter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>NiP players receive death threat&#8217;s for Flashpoint controversy<\/h2>\n<p>According to NiP&#8217;s COO Jonas Gundersen, the team received death threats the past few days, an unacceptable reaction from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/cs-go\">CS:GO<\/a> fans during an already uncertain time for Ninjas in Pyjamas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ephox-summary-card\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" data-ephox-embed-iri=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonasgundersen\/status\/1394752609634951170?s=20\"><a class=\"ephox-summary-card-link-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonasgundersen\/status\/1394752609634951170\"> <\/a> <a class=\"ephox-summary-card-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonasgundersen\/status\/1394752609634951170\"> <span class=\"ephox-summary-card-title\">Jonas Gundersen on Twitter<\/span> <span class=\"ephox-summary-card-description\">An emotional and controversial time, that we are trying to be as respectful about as possible.However, death threats and toxicity towards players who are just here to play and compete in the game that they, is something none of us should tolerate. Please have respect for that.&mdash; Jonas Gundersen (@jonasgundersen) May 18, 2021<\/span> <span class=\"ephox-summary-card-author\">Jonas Gundersen<\/span> <span class=\"ephox-summary-card-website\">Twitter<\/span> <\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;An emotional and controversial time, that we are trying to be as respectful about as possible. However, death threats and toxicity towards players who are just here to play and compete in the game that they, is something none of us should tolerate. Please have respect for that,&#8221; Gundersen tweeted out.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The threats escalated after NiP ended up winning the replay during the <a href=\"https:\/\/liquipedia.net\/counterstrike\/Flashpoint\/Season_3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Upper Bracket Round 1<\/a> match against Anonymo, after previously losing and being sent to the Lower Bracket.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/cs-go\/39-new-cs-go-skins-weapon-glove-skins\">39 new CS:GO skins found including weapon and glove skins<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Players from Anonymo, including Pawe&#322; &#8220;innocent&#8221; Mocek, showed support for NiP&#8217;s roster, pleading fans to &#8220;stop writing nasty things under their posts.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-cf.ginx.tv\/imgcdn\/twwjBUsBSvo2fO6dHERMQOiWZI3RxHNJ-NLDBkTNMaI\/rs:fill:0:0:1\/g:ce\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ2lueC50di91cGxvYWRzMi9PdmVyd2F0Y2gvZmxhc2hwb2ludF8xLnBuZw\" alt=\"nip death threats\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<p>With this fiasco behind them, Anonymo will now have to focus on their match against HYENAS on 19th May, meanwhile, NiP is set to play FunPlus Phoenix on 20th May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The controversy continues over Ninjas in Pyjamas&#8217; decision to &#8220;force&#8221; a replay against Anonymo Esports following their defeat during the Flashpoint Season 3 tournament, claiming&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1973,"featured_media":16811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cs-go","genre-fps","content_type-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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