Saintvicious Faces Backlash Due To Mental Health Statements On Stream

Flyquest coach and former NA LCS pro player Brandon “Saintvicious” DiMarco is facing community backlash today after remarks on his personal stream Friday night. Egged on by his chat, the remarks quickly turned into a rant on mental health and depression, culminating in DiMarco referring to it all as “made-up bullshit”.

These remarks come at an unfortunate time for the former NA LCS All-Star, with former teammate Joedat "Voyboy" Esfahani choosing to mark his victory in the 2v2 tournament at the 2018 All-Star event with a speech on why he would be donating his winnings to a mental health charity.

“Mental health is something that’s often overlooked and overshadowed, sometimes people are scared talking about how they feel or what’s going through their heads,” said Voyboy on the stage. “It’s okay to be down, be going through a rough time, reach out for help and have people supporting you and having your back. Just like Doublelift had my back in the 2v2s! So hopefully this $100k is going to go to raising a lot of awareness, mental health, resources, therapy and just helping a lot of people out and changing some lives. So that’s the goal and I’m happy we were able to raise it for such an important cause.”

Saintvicious is a long-time veteran of the League of Legends community, which is why it’s so disappointing for fans to see him come out with statements like this. Hopefully the community backlash will cause DiMarco to re-evaluate his thoughts on the matter, before his words do more harm than perhaps, he intended.

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