{"id":7425,"date":"2018-04-06T14:52:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T12:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spielepost.de\/?p=7425"},"modified":"2018-04-06T14:52:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T12:52:55","slug":"overwatch-pro-player-punished-for-racist-gesture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spielepost.de\/en\/overwatch-profi-spieler-fuer-rassistische-geste-bestraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch - Professional gamer punished for racist gesture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzards <strong>Overwatch<\/strong> The league is in full swing and with the huge amount of attention it receives, it&#039;s no wonder that any misconduct is quickly noticed. So the player Josh &quot;<strong>EQO<\/strong>\u201cCorona from team<strong> Philadealphia Fusion<\/strong>, by a racist gesture for excitement.<\/p>\n<h2>Overwatch player insults viewers during live stream<\/h2>\n<p>During a livestream session, the Asian audience felt offended by the gesture. The team management reacted promptly and already posted the &quot;punishment&quot; and an apology.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\" data-lang=\"de\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z8YDF9guWs\">pic.twitter.com\/Z8YDF9guWs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>- Philadelphia Fusion (@PHL_Fusion) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PHL_Fusion\/status\/981653418753196033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4th April 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Roughly translated:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTeam Philadelphia Fusion has suspended their player Josh\u201c EQO \u201dCorona for 3 games. He was also fined $ 2,000 and his streaming privileges were revoked until July 17th.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We apologize to our fans, the Overwatch fan base and anyone who has felt offended.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Josh donates an additional $ 3,000 to the No Place for Hate campaign. Team Fusion will double the fine and additional donation from Josh again for a total of $ 10,000.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The seriousness of the incident is not taken lightly and the team continues to try to live up to its role as a role model. &quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, this is not the first such case in the<strong> Overwatch<\/strong> Esports scene, the player xQc has already been fired from the Dallas Fuel team in the past. Other esports games such as Riot&#039;s League of Legends or Valves DOTA2 now have a zero-tolerance policy for such incidents and impose severe penalties.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzards Overwatch Liga ist in vollem Gange und bei der riesigen Aufmerksamkeit ist es kein Wunder, dass auch jede Verfehlung schnell auff\u00e4llt. So sorgte der Spieler Josh \u201eEQO\u201c Corona von Team Philadealphia Fusion, durch eine rassistische Geste f\u00fcr Aufregung. Overwatch Spieler beleidigt Zuschauer w\u00e4hrend Livestream W\u00e4hrend einer Livestream Session f\u00fchlten sich gerade die asiatischen Zuschauer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,36,291,34,292,35],"tags":[97,127,166,540,3155],"class_list":["post-7425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-overwatch","category-alle-spiele","category-esports-news","category-news","category-spiele-news","category-spiele","tag-blizzard","tag-esports","tag-overwatch","tag-overwatch-liga","tag-overwatch-strafe-gegen-spieler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spielepost.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spielepost.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spielepost.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spielepost.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spielepost.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spielepost.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spielepost.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spielepost.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spielepost.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spielepost.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}