Addressing Recent Events
December 21, 2025
Hello, as mentioned earlier this week in a Discord announcement, this post will talk about the recent events and how we will change our approach going forward.
We (
Sodium & 
Nixon) want to start this post with an apology to the ETF2L players who have rightfully called us out on mistakes we have made. Furthermore, we would also like to apologise to every ETF2L staff member who has been dragged through the mud because of mistakes that were made in which they played no part.
Recent Events and Bans
When handling the case involving 
Akio, we admit that mistakes were made by the Head Admin team during the original investigation. This includes not using a pragmatic approach for the sensitivity of such a case. This case was handled with too little care and understanding of how serious the situation was. We also believe that bias was a factor in the original decision to not take action. As we mentioned prior, Akio had access to administration channels and discussions well past her leaving the team and during the investigation which is absolutely unacceptable and will never occur again regarding cases involving staff members. This too was a consequence of the above failings mentioned and as a result we plan to look into any prior cases that may have had her input out of an abundance of caution.
On top of this, in the future if we receive a report regarding a staff member they will initially be suspended from their duties until a conclusion is reached involving staff members not associated with the case in any form. Internally, our new Community Moderation team raised concerns about our initial decision and as a result we looked further into the decision making that happened at the time. This is not an excuse but merely provides some additional context and we want to highlight the good work the Community Moderation team has been doing and the steps taken behind the scenes to improve this process. As a result of these discussions, Akio will be receiving a permanent ban for misconduct.
With regards to 
Stu, he too will be receiving a permanent ban for misconduct after we confirmed the legitimacy of the exchanges. We could not verify the legitimacy of these claims when the report was made in early November, but at the minimum we should have reached out to production partners as well as LAN organisers considering his ties to production and the upcoming LAN event at the time. We apologise to the staff involved and with our commitment to improving the pipeline for reporting staff members this oversight will be removed.
Finally for 
Temmie, they also will receive a permanent ban for failings in handling the aforementioned case involving Akio as well as misconduct that occured outside of the ETF2L platform. We understand that these situations should have been handled sooner, but we hope it shows our intent as a league to improve and learn from this mishandling.
We again apologise for any harm that was caused by our inaction and aim to improve by making a couple of changes in the way we handle misconduct/inappropriate behaviour reports. We are also looking for a better way to be transparent about reports in certain situations, this needs more internal discussion and we will provide an update to this at a later date.
Moving Forward
We realise that our actions or lack thereof have caused the community losing trust in us. We understand that one post can’t bring back this trust instantly, but we hope that our actions going forward can help to start restoring that trust. We remain committed to make sure ETF2L is a safe space where everything brought to us is handled in a safe and secure manner.
From today we will start handling reports involving misconduct against minors in a different manner. We will no longer consider any circumstances and ban indiscriminately and permanently when it comes to serious misconduct involving minors. This means that all allegations of misconduct towards a minor will be taken extremely seriously and any fake or unsubstantial allegations will have consequences for the reporter.
We also would like to address the pipeline for reporting staff members. We are working on a system where community members are able to report offending staff members securely without the risk of having any bias/outside relationships being a factor in their report. Considering the failings in prior cases regarding this pipeline, we are going to shift to a permanent solution for this oversight to remove any risk of bias in the future and to make sure only neutral parties will be involved. For now, whilst we finalise this shift, we recommend reporting your concerns to the ETF2L Moderation team which is a separate entity to the ETF2L League Admin team. We also will reach out to any partner communities should our staff members be involved in their projects for transparency.
1.1.3 Misconduct
ETF2L takes a zero tolerance policy towards any form of misconduct involving minors in the community as well as extreme misconduct involving any community members. We will not tolerate any breaking of these rules regardless of country. This rule encompasses both ETF2L official platforms as well as activities off platform in extreme cases. These rules include but are not limited to:
- Physical activity involving a minor
- Depicting minors in sexually explicit ways on the ETF2L platform (No matter what format i.e text, image, video, etc)
- Depicting minors in explicit ways in the form of extreme violence, gore or general NSFW content (No matter what format i.e text, image, video, etc)
- Grooming/blackmail involving a minor
- We heavily encourage anyone who experiences this behavior outside of ETF2L to first and foremost report it to the appropriate authorities as well as the platform owners. ETF2L misconduct reports & bans are not a substitute for law enforcement.
Conclusion
We have reviewed the evidence in the cases that were highlighted this week and have decided the following:
- Akio will receive a permanent ban
- Stu will receive a permanent ban
- Temmie will receive a permanent ban
The above decisions also have lead us to review some of the other recent bans that we have handed out for similar reports:
Posted by nixon167 in League, Rule Updates, Staff
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Turning point Etf2l
turning a new leaf? hopeful for the future
honestly i appreciate the transparency, i think most of the league is still disappointed that it took so long to get to this conclusion but, better late than never.
Good stuff ๐
ah yes, legacy diddlers get premium service and can go for one more
lol
make those perma as well please
legacy diddlers
well well well
making such a great point but adding “legacy diddlers”…
merry christmas
its meant to be provoking
Christmas indeed came a bit early
Total Chud Victory
so is my new pp bannable ?
the ETF2L files have been released
finally
“We realise that our actions or lack thereof have caused the community losing trust in us”
Yeah I don’t think there is any trust left
might as well rename the site to “European’s island”
Merry Christmas
W for admins
ZULUL if you understand this communique, you have been defeated ZULUL and you must post identical communique in chatroom ZULUL never ending cycle ZULUL
ZULUL if you understand this communique, you have been defeated ZULUL and you must post identical communique in chatroom ZULUL never ending cycle ZULUL
much love and respect to Sodium & Nixon
W admins
ty for the christmass gift
etf2l is healing???
christmas came early
w news post
rare etf2l W. nothing ever happens gurus in shambles
Where is the MEDALS!
This might be the final straw. There is finally enough drama for me to return to this site ๐
i see the pattern
Right lads you caught us, we’ll do the right thing now.
thank you Nixon, stay based
crazy bans
well done
Based.
May I ask why all previous bans for people involving minors weren’t made permenant.
up arrow
^ I know what happened with n1x and I’m really curious, as it was a disgusting case
why is the grooming league focusing on gaming all of a sudden
good change, now make it apply to previous bans too
this like like five 9/11s for all aspiring etf2l groomers
holy damage control bit late bros
+rep
Cool so from this point on everyone who is using anime avatar on steam will get banned! Thanks etf2l for taking care of little epsteins :)
how really hard is it to keep that shit in yo pants, at least we dont gotta deal with these mini diddlers no more zzz
God help us.
uh oh
Ahaha mud ๐ฅ