{"id":6374,"date":"2018-12-10T01:15:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T01:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=6374"},"modified":"2018-12-10T01:15:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T01:15:23","slug":"flyquest-coach-forced-to-resign-after-callous-mental-health-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/flyquest-coach-forced-to-resign-after-callous-mental-health-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"FlyQuest coach forced to resign after callous mental health comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon DiMarco may want to revisit his gaming moniker, &#8216;Saintvicious&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The coach of <a title=\"Flyquest releases new roster for summer split\" href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/flyquest-unveils-roster-for-na-lcs-summer-split\/\">eSports team FlyQuest<\/a> was forced to resign this week after extreme backlash to his comments lambasting mental health conditions like depression as &#8220;made up bullshit&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The former coach was streaming on a personal channel last week when he made the comments that could put his professional career in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>After back-tracking and claiming to have suffered from depression himself, DiMarco released a full statement online yesterday, apologising for the &#8220;inconsiderate&#8221; remarks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said some seriously inconsiderate things on my stream yesterday,\u201d DiMarco said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said that mental issues were exaggerated and that people suffering from those issues should be able to overcome it on their own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was an ignorant statement stemming from my severe lack of subject matter knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was surprised to realise just how uninformed I was regarding mental health, especially because it is an important part of my responsibilities as a coach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope, through this reality check, that I can grow to become an advocate for mental health issues and a better pillar for the people I care about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FlyQuest is a professional <a title=\"League of Legends betting\" href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/league-of-legends\/\">League of Legends<\/a> esports team based in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coach of eSports team FlyQuest was forced to resign this week after extreme backlash to his comments lambasting mental health conditions like depression as &#8220;made up bullshit&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[528,4,195,24],"class_list":["post-6374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-brandon-dimarco","tag-featured","tag-flyquest","tag-league-of-legends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6381,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6374\/revisions\/6381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}