he just announced he will be hanging up the caster mic and do something completely different
https://x.com/GuldborgReal/status/2003468180019372286
I'm pursuing a different path for 2026, and have decided to leave lol esports.
I couldn't be happier about the future, but I wanted to give a thanks to all the people I had the privilege of working with
I could have never imagined how many of you I'd end up calling friends. Words fail to describe how amazing all of you are. You all made this rollercoaster worth it. Thank you, for all the memories
The comments here did not disappoint
Known backstabber from the ERL days(even outside the Quickshot situation) leaves
No one cries
YEP
elaborate on “known backstabber”?
He posted a clip of Quickshot doing a stupid dance on Twitter, people and Riot took it at as nzi salute and removed QuickShot from the LEC. Google QuickShot "do the h*tler" and you'll find it pretty easily.
i’m talking about “even outside the Quickshot situation” as the original poster said
edit: the original poster has yet to elaborate on why guldborg is a “known backstabber” other than what happened with Quickshot. safe to say they were talking out of their ass?
I mean. He said "do the Hitler". Of course it was a nazi salute.
He did it in private with his friends on the broadcast. Guldborg posting it to Twitter is what got him removed from the broadcast. That's a dick move and has given GB the snake branding.
That’s not a snake that’s just being dumb, also why move the goalposts from “riot took it as a nazi salute” to yeah it actually WAS a nazi salute but it was in private (you live in an interesting world where work is private)
“In private” while he was at work, in front of a studio broadcast desk, with multiple cameras pointing at him, with the cast and crew there…
"in private" being in his work setting in front of 10s of cameras that could be turned on at any point.
Let's not be dense
maybe i'm just being pedantic but that was not a private setting, he was at work when said that
It was a joke watch the video with context.
As i recall the clip was the lec crew listening to dj music and quick shot did the dj move of putting up his hand while jokingly saying do the Hitler.
Naturally people took it as a nazi salute when he yells "do the Hitler". Not exactly a stretch.
Riot took as a nazi salute, because it was a nazi salute. Confirmed by himself saying do the hitler as you said.
Wasnt this in Germany as well? Or was it at a international tournament?
If it was in germany, it would be a crime there.
I'm also curious. I don't recall him standing out previous that situation
What, he's the reason we lost quickshot? Good riddance!
My reaction: "great! Can we get QS now pls?" and as sidenote: i'm german
With AfD polling at 26% that really isn't that good of a qualifier anymore lol
Never really settled into the broadcast in anyway, always felt like he'd shout over others and lowkey was more of a distraction than an addition to any segment/analysis he took a part of, in many ways he just came off as a budget Ender, and Ender himself was a polarizing figure.
This guy had such anti-synergy with everyone on camera it was unreal. Constantly talking over others, stepping on their toes, blowing the punchlines of their jokes, failing to recognize a toss or a change of topic, ignoring the host...which wouldn't be unredeemable if his talking points weren't such a bore
Ender was polarizing but he was an interesting personality. Guldborg was at best mid and then he destroyed Quickshot who OGs were a fan of. He never had a chance.
I'm not gonna lie, i'm not gonna miss him.
His casting was just not anything I cared to listen to.
His casting was not bad tbh, his desk segments however made me hate LEC desk so much. It's sad because I'm pretty sure it wasn't all his idea to do these but someone had to do it and he tanked all the cringe. Ender was the same.
Yea but Ender was entertaining while doing it, Guldborg was not
A lot of people disliked Ender and didn't find him entertaining at all
He was mediocre in a good day and the worst caster in the league since pulse left like 10? years ago on an average day, he wont be remembered for anyting besides fucking over quickshot whose spot he then took.
Bring back Nymaera! They guy has more knowledge on the LPL and strategy than half of the current casters.
My LJL king
I miss Nymera casting and Jamada on the desk
But he has no chemistry with the other casters... What good is analysis if u can't work with the rest of the team?
Guldborg didn’t either.
Then do Nymaera/Initialise. Their LPL streams are phenomenal
Nymaera is so fucking good holy shit
Screenshots leaked of Nymaera actively shittalking other casters he works with on his own Discord with his viewers.
That's probably why he got fired from the LEC next year. Dude is a grade A asshole to work with
do you have links to said screenshots?
I can't find anything on these "leaked screenshots". It's also not the first time this dude said something about Nymaera supposedly being a known asshole to work with with nothing to back it up, look at his comment history lol. Probably full of shit.
yup, i don't trust accusations like those without seeing evidence first. nymaera doesn't seem like the type, they're just a polite professional from what i've observed.
If you mean eragon then they never worked together lol. Also of the two one was a pretty milquetoast criticism of him on the NLC not playing into narratives and the other seemed like a badly timed comment about riot pushing caster duos under someone else shitting eragon.
Nice
Can we get quickshot back now
They probably got rid of quickshot because he was one of few left who had a riot employee contract which means he was paid very well and enjoyed the full extend of german labour law. Remember they fired a lot of people not too long after that
Yeah, it was just a perfect opportunity to get rid of that contract. If I was into conspiracy theories, I'd think Guldborg was forced to release that video of Quickshot.
Yes please. This guy fucked quickshot career. So now we want him back.
Do we have any reason to believe that it was in any way intentional sabotage? Its dumb to post but presumably Quickshot knew about it and agreed to it too so same goes for him.
Quickshot said he didnt know about the clip being posted.
For a bunch of people, what makes it bad is its not a couple seconds of a much longer video. Its a 5 second clip in a 10 second video.
I believe Quickshot has said in a video (I think with Thorin) that it was posted without his knowledge/consent.
The idea that he did it unintentionally suggests a level of obliviousness/stupidity that I find a bit hard to wrap my head around.
Buddy, this is esports. Most of these people were still living with their parents before they got their shot at being on the casting desk or on the stage. In terms of life experience they are literal children.
Hanlon's Razor absolutely applies here.
That's not Quickshot though. The guy is more than accomplished in his field of work. He was basically running the whole casting side of LEC behind the scenes, managing everyone.
I really doubt it was intentional sabotage. Tbh it was a kind of silly thing for Quickshot to do in Germany anyway, but I don't really see what benefit it could possibly have for Guldborg. Unless he for some reason really really hated Quickshot. I seem to remember them casting together a couple of times and them being pretty good though.
they weren't in Germany...
It's extremely stupid to do no matter what.
god forbid people make jokes about controversial figures, that would be abhorrent.
yea but it shouldn't cost your job if you do something in private that u yourself didn't post
It was a totally normal dance move. Some other random person said "do the hitler" after he had already begun dancing. It was a very tasteless joke and the person who made it should maybe have gotten actioned. But the dancer? He wasn't trying to "do the hitler" he was doing a dance that literally every person who's ever been in any club has seen a thousand times.
What about dancing do you find extremely stupid? Some other person made a joke in extremely poor taste. Some other person posted the video. Quickshot was just dancing, man. He was just dancing, he was in Ireland not Germany, he didn't say a word, and he did not respond to the person who made the joke in poor taste.
What exactly do you think he did wrong?
edit: people are saying he was the one who said "do the hitler" himself, and I can't seem to find the video anymore to verify. If that's true, then let the record show I'm wrong.
Wasn't it Quickshot who said it?
It was 100% quickshot who said it, I'm not gonna weigh in on if its worth him losing his job but its a weird thing to lie about
Dont have the original video but can see it here https://x.com/RichsWrath/status/1713192166019744159?lang=en
It's not even Quickshot that speaks though. He has his hand up as if he is DJ-ing and someone else shouts "Do the Hitler" and he starts laughing.
People really need to watch the clip again.
That's clearly quickshot speaking, what kind of gaslighting is this
cant believe a fucking straight up lie has more upvotes than the truth. disgusting really
Welcome to the internet
Why are the so many people in this thread saying it wasnt him? I dont really think he should have lost his job but it was clearly him saying it
https://x.com/RichsWrath/status/1713192166019744159?lang=en
Delete this crap. Full of shit
You can attribute it to a brainfreeze where he thought it was funny and didn't think it through, but still he sabotaged this guy's career knowing the LEC was looking for ways and excuses to cut some of the budget they had and Quickshot essentially was the highest paid employee who wasn't a freelancer.
I'm crying man Quickshot fucked up Quickshots career
I like Quickshot but they acting like he had him at gunpoint into making edgy jokes at work.
That's a pretty big accusation.
He did fuck over Quickshot by posting the video. Intentional or not, thats what the end result was.
quickshot fucked himself by doing the hitler salute. joke or not, doing that in germany was stupid.
blaming guldborg is cope
Would just like to point out at no point did he do a nazi salute. He just made a joke that his dance looked like one
Fun fact, both people can be in the wrong
Agreed.
But filming someone making a stupid joke in private and posting it on the internet is a whole different thing.
Ahh the lies about this. He didnt do the hitler salute. He did the fucking regular DJ move. While someone said "do the Hitler". And it happened in Ireland, not Germany. Lying for free. Amazing.
I feel like trying to correct people at this point is useless. I've seen so many people saying he did a nazi salute in Germany, nobody cares about the truth
Accusing people of lying while lying about who said what.
He did not do the hitler salute, though. It was a totally normal dance move. Some other random person said "do the hitler" after he had already begun dancing. It was a very tasteless joke and the person who made it should maybe have gotten actioned. But the dancer? He wasn't trying to "do the hitler" he was doing a dance that literally every person who's ever been in any club has seen a thousand times. Also he was in Ireland not Germany.
He was doing a common dance move, he didn't say a word about Hitler, he did not respond to the person who made the joke in poor taste, he did not record himself doing it, and he did not post the recording.
All the man did was dance lmao.
What exactly do you think he did wrong?
edit: people are saying he was the one who said "do the hitler" himself, and I can't seem to find the video anymore to verify. If that's true, then let the record show I'm wrong.
Brother the video is on the internet, there is no need to lie lmao you can hear it’s clearly Quickshot
It's a bad look but shouldn't be career ending, Riot just used it as an excuse to cut costs. And yeah posting that on social media, even if not intentionally malicious, is a way bigger dick move than a stupid joke in a private setting that was ultimately harmless.
Does intention not matter then?
What does it change? At worst, hes malicious. At best, hes stupid.
He recorded a friend making an edgy joke in private. Then thought the internet needed to see it.
It doesn't change anything for Quickshot, but there is a big difference in character between being foolish and hurting someone's career on accident and maliciously destroying someone's career on purpose.
Hurting someone accidentally and hurting someone intentionally are very different things.
Refer to th3 first part of the comment you responded to
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By that same logic: Quickshot chose to make the joke that got him fired. Quickshot fucked Quickshot's career. That much is also fact. Trying to pretend this was all Guldborg's fault is disingenuous.
Nah making an edgy joke not even on broadcast but with his colleagues apparently is too much for Riot. It wasn't even a big controversy nobody cared or knew about it.
More realistically Riot was looking for a way to get rid of him. It makes sense now considering the amount of cuts Riot are doing on LEC.
If you want to downsize, why not keep the guy that
1) can work really well with newbies
2) is popular
3) used to both host and interview players
Being hyperbolic but he was prolly most expensive and defacto leader of the talent side. Sends message no one is safe. Feel like we've seen multiple times that Riot will prio cost savings over product quality, because they think there's diminishing returns on desk & non-game segments. People will tune into games and mute desk, so cheapest is best.
Last point rings even more especially with costreamers getting more popular.
Pretty much everyone is freelance so they are already aware nobody is safe. And keeping him is still saving imo, he was the best at getting the most out of cheapest new talent and build them up.
Now they eventually started to use Laure as host but without him and Sjokz there was a hole. And Riot don't want people to ignore desk as they can put sponsors there so it is in their best interest in terms of revenue to not completely give up on that.
But then again, co-streaming kinda made this a moot point
Quick shot was one of the higher paid people and he had alot of power which other people in power probs didn't like as it made it harder for them to push changes they wanted.
It's not even that edgy... Nobody thinks Charlie Chaplin comedy is edgy.
To me it isn't of course (Quickshot is not a nazi or even slightly a hateful person) but the internet is full of purists so it's considered edgy.
PLEASEE
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Thought I was the only one who found him annoying in the desk segments.
Nice, Guldborg was probably least favorite caster. Didn’t know much about the drama, but really didn’t like him all that much on the desk or in segments.
Im on the same boat. I vaguely dislike him but I couldn't point to a particular reason as to why. Needless to say, I was very surprised by the amount of people who feel the same lol
damn, every comment on here is about quickshot. there’s no way he did that intentionally to end quickshot’s career with riot, so let’s not sabotage the whole thread as if he (guldborg) is an irredeemable villain.
guldborg was a decent caster and i hope his next move goes well. sounds like he’s making a big pivot into something else, i am interested to see what that is.
Tbf I would never post any of my friends joking like that, let alone my colleagues. Its hard to fathom why someone would do that to you. It's either unbelievably ignorant or malicious. I hope it's the former
It's cuz no one really liked him as a caster/desk analyst, most people were indifferent towards him. However, Quickshot was beloved by many people, they enjoyed his casting. So Guldborg being the reason a beloved caster's career is destroyed, even if unintentional, made the indifferent people dislike him. I'd imagine if that incident didn't occur, most replies in this thread would be indifference/"see ya"/"good luck in the future" without much emotional attachment. That's just how it is.
nailed it
No need to lie about it because he is leaving lmao
The only good thing Guldborg's ever done was that one sketch where he was acting like Mr Rogers. If we, of course, put aside the fact Europeans have no fucking clue who Mr Rogers was.
Agree. Regardless what he did with QS, he wasn't really good at casting and had awful synergy with co casters. LEC felt like they had the lowest tier of casters between LCK-NA-LEC and he was the lowest tier out of all the LEC casters.
You seem to be the only person in this thread that thinks hes a decent caster. Fact is, regardless of him getting QS fired, he was awful at his job.
he was fine. he didn’t make an impact on the broadcast in any direction, in my opinion. he had nowhere near the reputation of the truly hated casters, like letigress
He is much closer to Letigress than he is to Kobe, Deficio, Caedrel etc
i’m not far off from that, but i don’t think “decent” is giving him undue praise.
His main competition was Troubleinc. they had their debut year together. He looked decent next to her, but without that he was easily the worst caster/analyst on broadcast.
Was Trouble ever a caster/analyst though? I only remember her interviewing and hosting.
She casted with Quickshot for a few splits and so far that’s the only cast I’ve actively muted on the LEC broadcast
why?
Not in the LEC but for NLC and LPL
Oh god, you made me remember Letigress, shame on you!
This is internet sir, if you do one mistake the only way out is death (according to the mob)
Something that stupid only happens by someone either malicious or incredibly stupid, and hearing goldborg's analysis, I'm inclined to believe it's the latter
He was a forgettable caster and backstabbed his coworker who taught him the ropes. This thread is perfectly where it should be. I'd argue people are being too kind.
Incompetence does not wash away his actions. It's almost worse if it's unintentional. (Although I truly believe he did it on purpose, but I digress) I would never have posted that about Quickshot, my mentor at the time. Insane decision. I wouldn't have done it if I was 8 beers deep. I'm sure Quickshot is over it by this point, but there's no way they're buddy-buddy.
Can't really say i'm going to miss him but good luck
It felt like he lost his passion last year and was just doing his job. It sounds like he found something new so good for him
His highest impact on the scene will always be when he got Quickshot fired. What a friend!
QUICKSHOT BACK OR WE RIOT!
They’re not going to bring back someone who says “Do the Hitler” at a place of employment, especially a veteran of the scene.
Big W
Good fucking riddance
who?
Quickshot died for this
And nothing of value was lost. Bring back quickshot.
dude sucked ass at his job, wasn't funny, and was a snake. good riddance. it's a damn shame we lost one of the best to ever do it in quickshot because of this clown. i've never believed it to be intentional sabotage, but it was sure as fuck a stupid, asshole thing to do. hopefully we get someone who's more knowledgeable and has character to replace him
Has he ever apologised do quickshot?
Damn, Guldborg wasn't my favourite but the comments here are harsh.
Who?!
I don't even remember this guys voice lol
We take those
Mf really sabotaged Quickshot's career just to quit himself just a few years later lol.
What did he do?
He posted a video which featured quickshot saying do the Hitler and nazi saluting at a party. To the shock of many, a guy working for a company based out of Germany was fired for doing the nazi salute.
IIRC where this incident took place is questionable. At the time some sources were saying this was at a Riot remote studio in Dublin.
It's a joke to pretend as if this kind of thing switches between being totally ok in Dublin to being justifiedly career ending if done in Germany.
As long as QS doesn't knowingly do that joke in front of Holocaust survivors or their descendants, it shouldn't matter either way-
Thousands of regular people make these kind of jokes daily. Most just don't have Guildborg's around to film them and then post it on social media.
The location matters a lot as Germany has much stricter laws on the topic. Quickshot was definitely stupid to make such a silly “joke”.
Guldborg filming a backstage video during rehearsal however? A moment historically very strict when it comes to outside filming? And then posting it to socials and then saying “whoopsie didn’t know it was inappropriate” where the clip was 80% about that joke?
It was either a room temperature IQ moment (in Celsius btw) and extremely unprofessional or a career move. Since Quickshot was beloved by the community, most opted for the 2nd especially considering GB’s history in ERLs and NLC.
Quickshot never mentioned criminal charges being brought against him.
It's purely about perceived cultural sentiment.
As I said, anyone who claims nobody normal in Germany ever makes edgy jokes concerning Hitler or Nazis is fundamentally unserious.
If this wasn't recorded and posted by GB, it would never ever have amounted to any negative consequence for QS. Ergo, GB deserves the lion's share of the blame for what happened.
Oh, am I missing soemthing? Never heard of anything about him outside of this.
Is it actually illegal in Germany to heil hitler as a joke? Because in literally every other country its extremely normal to make fun of the comical nazi shit like goose-stepping and heiling.
Is watching Monty Python and Charlie Chaplin just illegal in Germany then?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksverhetzung
Literally from the article you've provided, his actions would've needed to either:
or
Neither of this applies by any stretch of the imagination.
What you're likely to actually be referring to is this, but no, that would not apply here either because someone filming you without your knowledge does not mean you're in a public setting, though even within a public setting someone is exceedingly unlikely to get arrested for referring to some dance move as "doing the Hitler".
Do you genuinely believe Quickshot holds right wing beliefs, has a positive opinion of Hitler and did that gesture to avow and spread Nazi ideology?
Please say sike right now ...
Yeah there's no way Quickshot is right wing, he literally would say something like "Ladies, gentlemen, and non-binary friends" during casts, there's like no way lol. He just made a dumb joke with friends, I'm super left wing and I've made dumb jokes too(not necessarily this but I've made 9/11 jokes and the like, idc about edgy humor as long as it's obviously a joke), he really shouldn't have been fired for this :/ I think it was almost definitely just a convenient time to get rid of him for money reasons tbh
It's the kind of thing that as long as you don't do it around extremely upsight/sensitive people, it's a normal joke you do around people you are on informal terms with and trust.
But the second it is photographed/recorded and set up for outsiders and the general public to see, nobody who does it themselves will stick their neck out to defend you for something like that, and the previously mentioned uptight/sensitive people will run a shitstorm with the goal of ruining your life.
It's one thing if a right winger does it, but Quickshot is by any standard I know of a very left wing/progressive person, so redditors trying to defend his entire career being axed over something like this is extremely mental.
Following this. Need to know.
He just posted a behind the scenes clip of Quickshot making an (admittedly edgy) off-the-cuff Hitler joke about a dance move that the on-screen talent were doing during warmup for LEC broadcast.
Clearly in questionable taste, but also clearly not endorsing any political beliefs or anything either.
Thank goodness
I used to pray for times like this
he will leave lol esports not esports. and does that mean we can get quickshot back pretty please?!
Good riddance.
Rejoice!
Never understood why he got a chance, just as troubleinc, but well, ar least he wasn't a backstabber. Oh wait
LEC and polarizing casters name a more iconic duo
Oh no... anyway
Good
Quickshot celebrating right now.
From what I've seen and heard of Quickshot over the years, I highly doubt this.
i doubt it. guldborg is one of the casters that quickshot brought up himself, i don’t see why quickshot would think that guldborg did it intentionally to get his mentor fired
ITT: A sense of humour, grace, or logical thinking (as applies to both Guldborg and Quickshot) does not exist on reddit.
more hysterics... great...
Judging from this year they're just going to make Dagda pull caster and analyst duty on the same day, I actually like him but he was genuinely in 90% of the casts by the end. It'd be him as part of a duo or it'd be another duo and then just Dagda slapped on there as well as a bonus for some reason
Wdym? Hysterics is goated af?
I loved him in LPL. It's like he's been told to increase the LPL memes and jokes in cast that he was doing.
hysterics will do anything except talk about the game. dude sucks and tries way too hard to be funny.
Hysterics has just been rambling utter nonsense for his entire LEC stint.
He's twitch chat incarnate so he's fun to have on shitshow/bottom team games but I'd rather have a diff caster for the bangers iykwim
I mean, I also never liked him, so I don't feel bad about it, but this comment section is pretty insane for the retirement post.
Who
oh no. Anyway
Finally
Good riddance and yes let’s bring back quickshot.
So he fucked over Quickshot to just dip 2 years later. Great.
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cool.
Quickshot smiling from shadow.
Best choice esports is a sinking ship
LEC already starting with a good note.
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"vs" is the wrong word, but in 2023, Guldborg posted a video of Quickshot saying "do the Hitler" in a behind the scenes caster desk moment and by 2024, he was asked to leave. The exact connection is disputed, but a lot of people think that as the LEC is in Berlin, and Germany has strict laws against that sort of thing, Riot was made to let him go to avoid a scandal in Germany itself. Not everyone really believes that it wasn't malicious, though. I've heard unconfirmed rumors that the LEC is incredibly cliquey and that some didn't like the power Quickshot held. More than being a freelanced caster, he was one of the few Riot employees, and essentially managed the talent on the stage. Furthermore, as Riot was already planning on downsizing the LEC, they may have used it as an excuse to drop him as an employee, something that would be difficult normally due to Germany's strong labor laws.
I doubt quickshot was fired for the joke. German people are not nearly as sensitive as people seem to think. I bet Riot was just happy to have some reason to not bring back one of their highest paid esports employees.
Guldborg accidentally ended Quickshot's career by sharing a silly behind-the-scenes video, some angry redditors decided that it was an evil plot to take over the
worldLEC.Look at this thread or the original ones. Reddit is overwhelmingly on Quickshot's side. This wasn't a firing to satisfy "woke reddit mob" or whatever you believe