TSM Cowboy Released After Allegedly Sending Inappropriate Messages
By Nicholas Barth ·
Team SoloMid (TSM) Fortnite professional player Cowboy has been released following his alleged sending of inappropriate messages to an underage female streamer.
UPDATE: 3/7/2019 - 2:58 PM PST
Leena Xu, President of Team SoloMid, posted an official statement on the situation involving Cowboy and the reasoning behind his termination from the organization.
If he wants to defend himself publicly, that’s not my battle since we are terminated. I’m purely speaking about our contract resolution that fans seem to not believe is possible.
— Leena Xu (@leena_xu) March 7, 2019
Original Story
Team SoloMid has one of the most popular professional Fortnite Battle Royale rosters in the entire world with a vast array of talented players that call the high-profile esports organization home. However, Wednesday, March 6th saw the Fortnite roster for TSM be in the spotlight for the wrong reasons when the esports organization announced that it had officially released Noah ‘Cowboy’ Cmiel from the organization following Cowboy reportedly sending inappropriate messages to an underage female streamer.
TSM Cowboy Released
According to a report by esports Insider and Journalist Rod "Slasher" Breslau, a Twitch streamer by the name of Faith revealed during one of her recent streams that TSM Cowboy had sent inappropriate messages to an unidentified underage female streamer. Following the reveal of this information, TSM Cowboy went on to delete both of his Twitter and Discord accounts.
According to Twitch streamer Faith, TSM pro Fortnite player Cowboy, whom is married, sent inappropriate messages to an underage female streamer. Speaking to the streamer, who wants to remain anonymous, she was made uncomfortable. Cowboy has since deleted his twitter and discord. pic.twitter.com/7PmRvfsl4U
— Rod Breslau (@Slasher) March 6, 2019
Soon afterward, TSM posted an official announcement to its Twitter account stating that the organization had released Cowboy from its professional Fortnite roster and would no longer be associated with the player going forward.
Yesterday Cowboy was officially released and is no longer affiliated with us.
— TSM (@TSM) March 6, 2019
Following his official release from TSM, Cowboy posted a message in his offline Twitch chat where he stated that he is not married and has hired a lawyer to clear his name against the allegations against him, according to a report by Slasher.
"Hey guys. please don't believe everything you read on the internet. i am not married and i have hired a lawyer to clear my name i am not allowed to talk about anything but i am not a pedofile," stated the former Team SoloMid Fortnite player.
Cowboy joined TSM back on October 23rd of 2018 with Maria "ChicaLive" Lopez and Karman "Kaysid" Sidhu. The former Team SoloMid Fortnite member competed with the organization during the $100,000 WSOE 3 Fortnite Tournament.
(cover photo courtesy of WSOE)