GodLike Esports Responds to Rumors About Attempted Valorant Player Poaching

A justification, not to an organization but to the community.

Aditya Singh Rawat
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GodLike Esports Responds To Alleged Valorant player Poaching

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Kammaljeet Singh - General Manager of GodLike Esports, has addressed rumors about having attempted to poach a Valorant player.
Through a series of Instagram story posts, Kammaljeet alleged that GodLike Esports has already signed its Valorant lineup.
He went on to state "There are no players from GE or any rumors being circulated in the market."

A huge controversy related to player poaching was witnessed by the Indian gaming community yesterday on 27th January. It is obviously not the first time something like this was happening, but having witnessed a similar situation before, the majority of the gaming audience was vocal about which organization could have been behind this alleged attempt of poaching a Valorant player from Global Esports (GE).

GodLike Esports was in the crosshair once again, yet another controversy they were entangled in despite no names were taken by the affected party. To shut down all allegations and rumors pitched against them by the bulk of the Indian gaming community, Kammaljeet Singh - General Manager of GodLike Esports, was forced to come forward with an explanation on behalf of the entire organization.

General Manager of GodLike Esports has responded to rumors about attempted Valorant player poaching

In the early hours of 27th January, Rushindra Sinha from Global Esports had revealed that there had been an attempt at poaching one of its players by another unnamed Indian organization. Soon after, the news went viral with other personalities and community members discussing about it, one name that started popping up was GodLike Esports.

However, it was all hearsay because no names had been taken by the source of all this information. Even after countless allegations stacking up against GodLike, no particular details were revealed by Rushindra Sinha or anyone else from his organization.

In response to all the rumors, Kammaljeet from GodLike Esports posted a couple of statements via his official Instagram account, alleging that the organization has already signed its Valorant lineup along with a screenshot of a WhatsApp group named 'GodL Valorant' which was supposedly created on 20th January.

"All the players we have signed have been given green signal from their previous orgs," stated Kammaljeet, "FYI: There are no players from GE (Global Esports) or any rumors being circulated in the market."

Response to poaching rumors by GodLike Esports

He posted another story stating that if any of the parties still have any doubts or misunderstandings, they are free to call him and talk things through because he would like to maintain "respect and dignity" amongst each other.

For now, the reported player poaching situation has been handled but this instance has shown that the community is vigilant and attentive, so if any such incident occurs in the future they would not be fooled by any false statements or stories.


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Aditya is the in-house CS:GO writer at AFK Gaming. While his understanding of the esports space is not restricted by geographical borders, his current focus lies in the Asian region. Understands and follows almost all major esport titles.