Aurora rifler Jimi “Jimpphat” Salo has denied the allegations made against him by a woman who says she is his former girlfriend. In a 16-slide post on a Douyin account in his name, published in the early hours of 9 November, Beijing time, he rejected her accusations of racism, love-bombing and what he called “so called ‘yellow fever'”.
The statement, written in English, says the two dated from December 2024 to July 2025, in what he describes as his first relationship. He also accused her of “posting a lot of lies about me in social media” since they stopped having contact.
The response came two days after the woman’s own statement, also posted on Douyin, began circulating on X, as we reported in our original story on the allegations. Most English-speaking fans saw his reply through X, where the fan account Uchiha Flora shared his slides with a summary at 11:36 UTC on 9 November. That post had passed 80,000 views by Tuesday. TalkEsport has viewed the Douyin post, which had drawn close to 1,000 likes and 134 comments, but has not verified the claims made by either side.
What Jimpphat said about the racism and love-bombing claims
Jimpphat began by explaining why he had decided to speak at all. He wrote that he “really didn’t want to make a response at all”, but that many people were now talking about the claims and might see his silence as a sign of guilt. He then turned to the most serious allegation, writing that she “didn’t show any proof again because it’s not true at all”. He said he has “a lot of friends from all over Asia”, enjoys playing there and goes on holiday in the region, and he called the claim a “totally false accusation”.
He also rejected the claim that he love-bombed her around the Perfect World Shanghai Major in 2024. “I’ve never love bombed or in any way tried to manipulate her to stay with me,” he wrote, pointing out that he had just turned 18 and was two years younger than her. He called it “ironical” that she described herself as “young” and “naive”, since he says he had no relationship experience before her. On the “yellow fever” claim, he said he had laughed at it because it was “absurd”, and that he had simply preferred long-distance relationships in the past.
Where his version differs from hers
The two statements give conflicting accounts of how the relationship ended. Her post claimed the couple broke up three times between May and July 2025, and that he repeatedly suggested they become friends with benefits afterwards. Jimpphat said instead that the relationship ended in July 2025 while she was with him in Japan, and that she later asked to stay friends when he wanted to move on. He also denied that he had begged her to join him at different locations, a claim that her statement made in relation to IEM Chengdu.
He shared screenshots of messages that he says show her reaction to his contact with a Chinese fan after the two had split. “This was nothing more than a fan interaction,” he wrote, adding that they were “not in a relationship anymore” at the time. His statement does not directly address her claim that his family disapproved of their relationship because she is Chinese. TalkEsport is not publishing the screenshots, which include private messages, and is still not naming the woman, who is a private individual.
Jimpphat also used the statement to admit he has flaws of his own. Being a professional player, he wrote, “in no way states that i’m a perfect human since i’m not”. He closed by wishing her “all the best”, and by saying he had “no interest to continue this childish drama”. He signed off the statement with the words “With love, Jimi”.
Aurora’s silence before the Singapore Major
Neither Aurora nor the woman had responded publicly to his statement by Tuesday, 10 November, and Aurora’s CS2 account has not mentioned the matter. Jimpphat has not posted about it on his X account either. His last post there came on 29 October, after Aurora lost to MOUZ, the team he left in July after more than four years.
The timing matters for Aurora, who were fourth in the Valve Regional Standings published on 2 November. That ranking sends them straight into Stage 3 of the PGL Major Singapore 2026 on 2 December, as set out in our guide to the Major’s 32 teams. Aurora were also among the 14 teams that PGL invited to PGL Cluj-Napoca 2027 on Tuesday. That event runs from 13 to 21 February, as our list of the invited teams shows.
