I reiterate to the little gaming shits of America, you are about to lose it all...

One of the readers of this blog has proposed a gigantic sign:

NUMBER OF DAYS SINCE LAST VIDEO GAME/E-SPORTS SCANDAL

... with the number perpetually frozen at zero.

• In an article reporting that Korean broadcasters (probably under some duress either from Blizzard or from sponsors) are refusing to even report the play of account-boosting cheat-pro Son "OGE" Min-Seok of the Dallas Fuel (more on this team in a moment), Kotaku e-sports site Compete reports that the Philadelphia Fusion had drafted Su-min "Sado" Kim, banned for the first three-quarters of the entire first season (THIRTY MATCHES -- three full ten-match stages of the four in the regular season) for the same offense.

EXCUSE ME.  How is that piece of shit playing at all, professionally or otherwise, any Blizzard game at that point?  That's RMT, account-boosting, etc. and so forth.

But a broadcaster for Korean coverage of the Overwatch League finally admitted it:  They are NOT ALLOWED to mention any achievement or gameplay by OGE by name.  It is unclear as to whom has made the edict, but given the complete incompetence of Blizzard regarding this league (to the point I believe, and have stated, it should be shut down entirely!), I would have to think this is a Korean sponsor issue.

The only argument against that is that one has to wonder what sponsors would continue to put up with this abomination of an e-sports league.

• Counter-Strike has been forced to ban a player for a racial slur, a player calling a Brazilian opponent a "monkey", Compete reports.

Niko "K1to" Gruhne has been banned from a professional Counter-Strike league for a month for the slur.

• The coach of the controversial Dallas Fuel has finally been fired.  (Compete)

In a move which should've been mandated by Blizzard some time ago,  Kyle "KyKy" Souder has finally been fired as coach of the Dallas Fuel, though only for the team's poor performance.  Also fired is the top DPS player for the team Dong-jun "Rascal" Kim.

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Gaming is, more and more, becoming a haven for racists, bigots, misogynists, pedophiles, trolls, and a lot of the worst of what we have to offer as a youthful society.

Keep it up much longer, and someone like Mike Pence is going to punish us all for you fucks being unable to control yourselves.