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Former R6 pro player ‘Kanine’ receives backlash over transphobic tweet

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By Sadnan Nafis Published May 23, 2021
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Formerย Rainbow Six Siegeย professional player Ozgur โ€œKanineโ€ Alturk is under heavy criticism after he tweeted out a transphobic comment while watching the Six Invitational.

‘Kanine’ posted a transphobic slur directed at professional Siege caster Em โ€œCaptainFlukeโ€ Donaldson, which has got the entire Rainbow Six Siege community riled up against him.

Nice to see so many improvements to the game, including people who work hard for it at the highest level of competition/community, and keeping trash like yourself out of it.

Reblock me you absolute troglodyte.

— BikiniBodhi ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ชโค๏ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ (@BikiniBodhi) May 22, 2021

I don't intend to interact with Kanine or his tweet, the community is doing enough to shut him down and I don't care for it. Report, ratio and move on. We all know he's a cunt anyway.

But I will be renaming chalet balc & making sure my colleagues do the same. He can disappearโœŒ

— Emi | Fluke (@CaptainFluke) May 22, 2021
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Kanine, a former Siege pro player, has played the game competitively since the very early days. Although he didn’t win any major Siege tournaments, he did finish in 2nd place at the inaugural Six Invitational in 2017. However, Kanine’s main legacy was left with the in-game callouts on some specific R6 maps. For example, Chaletโ€™s balcony and Oregonโ€™s โ€œAKsโ€ were known as the โ€œKanine spot,โ€ as he used to regularly sit on those places, refusing to budge.

Siege fans are now starting a movement to rename the Kanine callouts to ‘Fluke’ย in honour of the target of his comments.

Many Siege casters and pro players have already stated that they will not be using Kanine’s name anymore and urges others to follow suit.

โ€œThank you for retiring in 2019 and saving us the trouble of banning you,โ€ Rainbow Six esports director Wei Yueย tweetedย at Kanine. โ€œR6ย andย R6ย Esports have no place for sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or any kind of bigotry.โ€


The Six Invitational 2021 Grand Finals will be taking place today, but before that, make sure to catch Siege’s Y6S2 North Star reveal live at 16:30 CEST.

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