Another example of why e-sports is a fraud...

• Ellie was a fraud, as I kind of expected.

It appears that we have our answer on the Overwatch story, and it is about what I figured.  The female player "Ellie" was actually Punisher, a player apparently tied to Ellie.

There's only one real punishment:  Throw the team out, perma-ban Punisher.

And it's yet another example of two real problems which should put an end to e-sports, if anyone ever really desires to pay attention.

First, the rampant amount of fraud and illegal deceit which goes on in e-sports is becoming, more and more, part of the process.

Second, I'll start with a comment from Liz Richardson, managing editor of Overwatchscore, an e-sports site on the Overwatch League and other things Overwatch (through the Kotaku article on the subject):

“I am seven goddamn thousand levels of livid about this Ellie situation,” said Liz Richardson, managing editor at Overwatch esports site Overwatchscore. “People involved aside, this ‘stunt’ will have lasting ramifications for ANY woman/[non-binary] person trying to get into Contenders. They will ALL now be subject to ‘lol are you real??’ harassment.” 

I'll take you a step further, and it's one of the reasons I don't care if (as Blizzard now points out) "Ellie" was never an official member of the Second Wind team...

That's the exact intent of the situation.  I believe the intent of this incident was to ensure that no female player could ever ascend to even the second tier of professional Overwatch, and that this was DESIGNED to use that harassment Liz Richardson talks about to ensure that not only does no female/non-binary player get into professional Overwatch, no such player even THINKS of getting into professional Overwatch.

Toxic masculinity, and, for that, Second Wind and Punisher should be immediately permabanned.

But watch:  Since this is the Overwatch League -- and, if you've been following the disciplinary reports from sites like Kotaku, you know of a lot of this -- it'll probably get them a benefit toward promotion to the top professional league.