LESLÃO apologizes for extremely offensive Dota 2 Effigy shown at TI11

Sometimes a live event can shine some light on aspects of a game, player, or team that wouldn’t have been discovered in any other situation. In the case of The International 2022, one observer revealed a racial slur during one of Soniqs’ final games of the Dota 2 event’s group stage. 

As Soniqs were fighting to keep their TI11 hopes alive against BOOM Esports in a tiebreaker match, an observer hovered over a Heroic Effigy of Triumph in Rodrigo “LESLÃO” Santos’ inventory by happenstance. Effigy items can be crafted and customized to include poses and inscriptions of the player’s choice, and this specific Effigy included a very direct racial slut. 

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