EVO organisers have moved to droop certainly one of their very own following paedophilia and sexual harassment allegations.
Earlier immediately, Mikey, a preventing game competitor, shared his account of repeated incidents with EVO organiser Joey “Mr. Wizard” Cuellar. In a Twitlonger story, Mikey recalled a few of his time on the Southern Hills Golfland arcade within the late 90s.
A teen on the time, Mikey would hang around with a bunch of older gamers, Cuellar amongst them, who frequented the arcade. This “old boys club” as he known as it, would dare them to do “stupid shit just for a laugh” and reward them with free meals or arcade game tokens.
“Wizard was especially into this. He would pay people hundreds of tokens to do things like take off their clothes and jump in the water hazard pools for certain amounts of times,” stated Mikey.
“99% of the time, it was young boys. There is only a singular instance I know of where it wasn’t a young boy, and that singular instance, she was allowed to do it in the future, in whatever clothes she liked and only for a few seconds. But for all the boys (out of recollection 12-16) it was like 10-15 minutes, we HAD to be in our underwear (under the reasoning that it would be colder) and they were always challenges at the time so we couldn’t prepare change of clothes, towel, or anything like that.”
Mikey has different claims in his story, lots of that are of Cuellar’s behaviour. Since his story got here to mild, EVO issued a press release saying that Cuellar has been positioned on administrative go away whereas a third-party investigates these allegations.
“We are aware of the accusations that have been made against Joey Cuellar. The behaviour in these accusations runs directly counter to EVO’s mission of building a safe, welcoming environment for all of our players and attendees. We Take this responsibility seriously. Accordingly, Joey has been placed on administrative leave pending a third-party investigation,” it reads.
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