Two members of M80’s skilled Rainbow Six Siege group have been kicked out from the yr’s greatest event, the Six Invitational 2025, after crashing out from a loss and getting a little bit too heated.
A yr of competitors within the Rainbow Six Siege neighborhood culminates on the Six Invitational, the most important occasion on the calendar. This time round, the 20 greatest groups from across the globe have all descended upon Fenway Park in Boston for his or her likelihood to not solely hoist the legendary sledgehammer, however to say the lion’s share of a $3 million prize.
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Whereas the event has solely simply entered the Playoffs part, issues have already gotten out of hand, with members of 1 group taking issues a bit too far in accordance with the rulebook.
US-based organizations M80 and DarkZero threw down on February 9, 2025, within the first spherical. Whereas it was a back-and-forth affair, DZ in the end got here out on prime. M80’s coach wasn’t too thrilled with the outcome, obtained within the faces of rival gamers, and in the end obtained kicked out in consequence.
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Professional Rainbow Six coach & supervisor kicked from Six Invitational 2025
M80 began the match robust, decisively successful the primary map with a 7-1 scoreline. DarkZero struck again within the subsequent map, nevertheless, tying up the collection.
The third and remaining map had some quirks, nevertheless, as DarkZero was awarded a free spherical win because of a rule violation from M80’s coach. Evidently already fired up, when DZ closed out the collection, M80’s coach was fast to begin yelling, and even pushed proper up the gamers on the opposing group.
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M80 coach Matheus ‘Budega’ Figueiredo significantly obtained heated with DZ participant Nathan ‘Nafe’ Sharp, strolling proper into him whereas the participant had his again turned. Two event officers needed to separate them.
Moments later, a choice to take away Budega was carried out. The movement additionally noticed M80 group supervisor Igor Vivas faraway from the venue as nicely. “An lively investigation into their conduct is presently underway,” Rainbow Six officers introduced.
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M80 Founder and CEO Marco expressed his ‘disappointment’ shortly after on X (previously Twitter), stating he was “shocked by what transpired throughout and after the match right now. Utterly unacceptable.
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“Sorry to the gamers, followers, Ubisoft workers, and Darkish Zero for what passed off. Utterly ashamed of how M80 was represented right now. Actually no phrases.”
In the meantime, Budega took to social media to profess his innocence amid the scuffle. “I didn’t contact anybody,” he insisted. “[Nafe] goes into me [and] I get banned. The dude actually hits me whereas I didn’t even contact the man.
“I get punished for issues I didn’t do,” he continued. “I didn’t commit any wrongdoings and I’m being maliciously focused by an admin. Ubisoft is within the mistaken.”
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As for Nafe, he merely took to X with laughing emojis, disregarding the altercation.
Not precisely Budega’s first brush with the rulebook, the coach has a troubled historical past within the scene. In 2022, Budega was slapped with a 12-month suspension after being discovered breaching the scene’s skilled rulebook on a number of events.
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