"DOTA2" professional player said he once played an entire game in front of police officers to prove his identity.

Abstract:

A "Dota 2" professional player said that he once played an entire game in front of police officers to prove his identity. This experience is currently only said by the player himself. The player is Nuengnara “23savage” Teeramahanon, a Thai core player who plays for Xipto Esports. He posted on Facebook describing the entire incident.

According to 23savage, the team’s training base in Kuala Lumpur was raided by the police on Sunday night. He and his teammates Fbz and Oli were handcuffed, their passports and mobile phones were confiscated, the Internet and computers were cut off, and the interrogation lasted for about two hours. Officers repeatedly asked them why they were in the city and whether they were indeed professionals. The turning point came when a police officer, wearing the French team's No. 11 jersey, said he knew the Dota and Fnatic teams. 23savage showed him the Instagram account, and the police officer also recognized the Malaysian Internet celebrity Ms. Puiyi in the photo, and the atmosphere at the scene eased.

Then, the police officer unlocked the handcuffs of a man from 23savage and asked him to play a game on the spot to prove his strength. 23savage finished the game using the hero Kez, and according to his own description, he got 32 kills. This performance finally convinced the police of his identity as a professional player, and the handcuffs of his teammates were also removed. 23savage also mentioned that the officer took two boxes of Nutella with him when he left. He later insisted in a reply to the post that the incident was true, and shared a photo with Ms. Puiyi and a screenshot of the Kez game.

The available information does not provide independently verifiable details about how the match occurred, nor does it explain how police identified him based on the match. Some users on Reddit expressed doubts about 23savage’s statement and thought it might be a joke, but 23savage actively defended the authenticity of the story in his reply. At present, this incident only has a unilateral account from the player himself, and has not been confirmed by the police or other independent sources.