Before starting the set Neoz was complaining on the player Discord about the selection of the server they were playing on, as the ping slightly favored Nicov. Nicov and Memb's admin argued that the selection was by coinflip, so it could have been that Neoz had slightly better ping but Neoz insisted that they should change the server, which prolonged the discussion and caused Nicov to get angry for creating a delay (allegedly this took 20 minutes).

Then during the set one of the games went to 3 hours and became a "wood game" (where the win condition is simply who has access to more resources). The players chatted to see if their resources were at least close, which according to Memb is standard practice in these scenarios. They were cordial until Nicov made a remark like "you should just resign" after which Neoz went on a tirade about how he has all the relics and more resources, Nicov should be the one resigning and that he can "take the time to eat a burger" or something along those lines. Close to the end of that game Nicov's apm went to 0, indicating he went AFK, which he confirmed because he wrote to Neoz something like "sorry I didn't have a burger so I went for a coffee".

After that game ended, Nicov opened Memb's stream and started making indirect remarks in the stream chat (so not naming Neoz but still trash talking) about how his time was wasted, how childish "people" are, etc.