Overwatch League coach accused of grooming aspiring OWL participant

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Washington Justice’s new 2023 head coach, ‘GetAmazed’, has been accused of grooming an aspiring Overwatch League participant. The crew has been knowledgeable of the state of affairs, however is but to concern a response.

Zouheir ‘GetAmazed’ Baba is the top coach for each OWL’s Washington Justice and Group France within the 2023 Overwatch World Cup. Earlier than the 12 months’s competitions get underway, nevertheless, Baba has been accused of grooming an aspiring OWL participant.

‘Kassian’ detailed their alleged experiences with GetAmazed in a twitlonger on February 27, claiming the coach sexually exploited them whereas providing to assist with their aspiring professional profession. 

The 2 supposedly made contact on-line in April 2022 when Kassian was searching for a coach to assist them additional make up their thoughts if they need to pursue a profession in OWL.

On the time of this interplay, Kassian had been recovering from extreme agoraphobia and grieving from the lack of somebody they had been depending on attributable to their incapacity, in response to their publish. They had been allegedly on the verge of homelessness whereas being in a financially troublesome state of affairs. Thus, they had been not sure if they need to proceed pushing ahead in aggressive Overwatch.

The 2 supposedly conversed on Metafy, a training web site, and after a dialogue about their OWL pursuits, GetAmazed allegedly satisfied Kassian that they need to proceed with their professional aspirations. 

The soon-to-be OWL coach even refunded this preliminary teaching session and supplied assist to Kassian anytime they wanted any Overwatch recommendation, in response to the twitlonger.

Kassian went on to element their relationship from that time ahead. The place it allegedly first began as only a cordial relationship wherein Kassian would ask the coach for recommendation in Overwatch, it might slowly evolve right into a extra private one, they steered. 

Kassian alleged that GetAmazed slowly confirmed them extra affection whereas goading them into sending pictures of themself. Earlier than lengthy, it supposedly resulted in express photographs being exchanged between the 2.

GetAmazed would allegedly cease answering any Overwatch-related questions and solely request Kassian to ship footage and movies which they weren’t comfy sending, they claimed.

“I felt like he was utilizing me for his personal pleasure,” Kassian wrote within the twitlonger.

GetAmazed would finally minimize all contact abruptly, Kassian revealed. The aspiring participant would finally report their alleged historical past and exploitation to the supervisor of Group Peps, Mélissa “Søeny” Yang, who GetAmazed was teaching on the time.

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Zouheir “GetAmazed” Baba when he was teaching 01 Esports.

In supposedly leaked screenshots of their personal messages, Kassian would allege that Søeny tried to disclaim the allegations, and even tried to dismiss Kassian’s expertise.

The problem has since been reported to the Washington Justice’s Vice President of Esports, Grant “Keiranthil” Paranjape. In a seemingly screenshotted message between Kassian and Keiranthil, they are often seen asking him for updates, solely to be instructed to direct any inquiries to a consulting regulation agency. No additional updates had been offered after that message, in response to Kassian.

As of penning this, neither GetAmazed nor the Washington Justice has responded to the allegations.