Three more reasons it is not yet time to take e-sports seriously...

First:

Once again, a major League of Legends event is marred by a racist incident pre-tournament.

This month marks the point between the two "splits" of the season.  As such, Riot Games holds the Mid-Season Invitational.  This tournament has several World Championship implications (as the teams in the top four grant their regions #1 pod seeds, and the best International Wild-Card team advances their region into the main World Championship pool and gives that region a second team in a new subsidiary section of the tournament leading into the main pool).

Too bad the host Brazilian team should no longer be in this Invitational.

In the 2014 World Championships, Riot Games failed to take sufficient action against Dennis "Svenskeren" Johnsen for racist comments made in preparatory matches against Taiwanese players.  He was suspended three matches, fined, and, largely believed as a result, his team, Fnatic, failed to advance.

I said then that the only real penalty would perhaps be Fnatic's removal from the tournament.

Neither Riot Games nor the players have learned.

Felipe "YoDa" Noronha has been banned three matches and fined $2,000 for racist comments against Japanese players, posted to his Twitter.  And the apology, according to the Kotaku e-sports site Compete, states that this is his opinion, but does not reflect that of his organization.

Throw 'em out.  Play that group with three teams.

There is no way that these gamers are going to take professional conduct seriously until Riot Games and other organizations enact "one strike and your team is out".  This is the second major world tournament in four years to be marred by this kind of stuff, and this has nothing to say of the several major incidents (at least one (and, IIRC, probably two) with the Oceanic Pro League -- including the first time a pro team DID have to be thrown out!) which have pockmarked League of Legends.

Second:  And Overwatch as well!!!  (Another Compete article.)

At least this one has had the proper result.

Matt Vaughn is out of e-sports due to an N-word tirade during an Overwatch match.

A match he was streaming to Twitch -- account terminated.

He was fired from his team and left e-sports.

Third:  More match-fixing, again in Overwatch.  (A third Compete article.)

The coach and manager of a Korean Overwatch team have been arrested when the organizers of a Challenger tournament in Korea (cable company OGN) gained significant evidence the pair were having another team throw a match to their team  in exchange for sponsorship considerations.

This apparently included a fraudulent doctor's note to allow the other team to substitute a (far lesser) player into the match!

The two and the player from the other team colluding with them have been thrown out of the sport, no current word on the legal status of the sports bribery charges (yes, it's in Korea, but it's the same thing...)

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Look, it's time we force these Cro-Magnon gamers into the 21st century or out of gaming, professional and otherwise.

There is no way, short of expulsion from tournaments and the like, that the institutionalized racism, homophobia, etc. of these unintelligent gamers (from scrub to professional) is going to be removed.

(And, yes, this would include criminal charges, in jurisdictions where they apply.  Remember, those who cloak their idiocies in the First Amendment:  The First Amendment is an American concept only.  According to a 2012 article from the Christian Science Monitor, it appears that a 1990 Brazilian law CAN have Noronha prosecuted and have his computer taken from him, at bare minimum, with perhaps imprisonment:

(Translated:)

It is now illegal in Brazil:

"Art. 20º To practice, to induce or to incite, by means
  Of social communication or by publication of any
R
Nature, discrimination or prejudice of race,
Color, religion, ethnicity or national origin:
`PAR` 1º - Can the judge determine, after hearing the Minis
Public or request of this, even before the
rite
Under penalty of disobedience:
I - Instant Gathering or Search and Seizure
Copies of the respective material.
II - the cessation of the respective radio transmissions
Or televised.")