ESL Spokesman On EPL Technical Pause: "The Attack Was Directed at Individual Players"

ESL Vice President Ulrich theflyingdj Schultz, who is responsible for the gaming ecosystem, shared details about the incident during the match between NAVI and Heroic at EPL S16.

It looks like the attack was directed at individual players, which we were able to stop when we figured out what the problem was. We have notified Valve and are taking action to ensure that this incident does not happen again.

Ulrich theflyingdj Schultz

Note that due to the attack, the match lasted more than five hours in total but still ended with the victory of Natus Vincere.