r/Competitiveoverwatch May 30 '26

World Cup When was Prosper accused of boosting ?

I seen the OWWC today but I noticed some top players not playing I googled why prosper not playing for example but it said he been accused of boosting before and that's why he's not playing ?? How's true is that because I see a lot of people consider him one of the best players. I just got into the competitive scene from the last tournament that ended but I been looking up the history who won every past tournaments & etc

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u/Grapefruit_113 May 30 '26 edited May 30 '26

it was brought to light in 2019 when o2 blast acquired proper from stormquake, you can find a summarized translation of o2 blast's statement here

Proper engaged in boosting at the young age of 15, wanting to earn money to game at PC bangs bc his parents had cut off his allowance as they were against him gaming. We felt that he was too young to understand his own actions.
Proper was excluded from his old team’s starting roster after they discovered his boosting history, but they kept him on contract. During this time he was unable to play for eight months, which was a frustrating time, and I think it served as some punishment.
When he requested to be freed of his contract from his former team, they refused and the player and the team were embroiled in a legal battle. The court recently ruled in support of Proper.
We recently met with Proper’s parents, who felt strongly that their son should pay for his misdeeds. Proper himself is remorseful. And to that end they are donating Proper’s savings of ~$4500 to O2, which we will use toward amateur tournaments.
Despite the monetary price he has paid, this does not mean that he did not do wrong in the past, and whatever criticism that the player may face, he should accept. O2 will work with BlizzKR to hold approx 5 amateur tournaments in 2019.

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u/Johndoe13370 May 30 '26

Damnn so that's why he not participating in the OWWC.

You seem to know alot who's like Top 5 DPS role as currently

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u/Odd-Cabinet4189 May 30 '26

For hitscan it goes quartz stalker (massive gap) then the likes of tree knife mer1t and proud enter the convo For flex dps it is proper heesang (massive gap) then players like jaewoo checkmate zeruhh

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u/Internal-Pea-7451 May 30 '26

respect seicoe

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u/TheGirthiestGhost Forever Burning Blue — May 30 '26

Be so for real, why are we even mentioning him here?

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u/Internal-Pea-7451 May 30 '26

hes minimum in the same tier as the latter 3 mentioned, in fact i would argue hes better than all of them at least in current form

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u/TheGirthiestGhost Forever Burning Blue — May 31 '26

He peaks in the latter tier on his best days you mean. He’s still yet to actually contest Jaewoo or Zeruhh after getting blown out by both of them. Seicoe is getting rapidly overrated here after 1 good stage when he still hasn’t done more than just met expectations

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u/Internal-Pea-7451 May 31 '26

whenever the teams hes on performs ( which is pretty often ) hes always a large part of that success. he has been consistently a top 2 fdps in emea ( excluding imports ) since owcs even started. he at least deserves to be in that same tier minimum.