Apex Legends streamer Mendo banned for \u2018cheating\u2019 Team Liquid\/RespawnApex Legends streamer and former pro Lucas \u2018Mendo\u2019 H\u00e5kansson has been banned from the battle royale game, with one of his accounts punished for \u201ccheating\u201d. When Apex Legends was still in its infancy, Mendo was widely considered one of the very best in the game, regularly winning tournaments and putting on a show. While he hasn\u2019t competed much since early 2020, Mendo is still a supremely skilled player, regularly capable of making high-ranked players look like your average Joe. With the cheating issue running rampant in rival battle royale Warzone, Respawn and EA are obviously staying very hot on the issue, and Mendo has been caught in their line of fire. On September 21, Mendo tweeted out a screenshot of an email he received from EA, clearly baffled by the situation. The email read: \u201cWe noticed that your EA account broke EA\u2019s gameplay rules. Because your account was cheating, we\u2019ve permanently blocked your access to Apex Legends\u2019 online features.\u201d In his tweet, Mendo said: \u201cOne of my @PlayApex accounts got banned for cheating! Awesome! I\u2019m so glad they\u2019re keeping the servers safe.\u201d One of my @PlayApex accounts got banned for cheating! awesome! I’m so glad they’re keeping the servers safe \ud83d\ude07 \u2014 Liquid Mendo (@Mendo) September 22, 2021 It\u2019s unclear what exactly led to EA banning Mendo for cheating. Of course, it\u2019s possible he actually was cheating, but many seem in agreement that this isn\u2019t the case. Fortunately, as Mendo specifies, this is only on \u201cone of\u201d his accounts, so he\u2019s still able to play and stream the game when he wants to. He\u2019ll be hoping not to face a ban on his main account as a result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends streamer Mendo banned for \u2018cheating\u2019 Team Liquid\/RespawnApex Legends streamer and former pro Lucas \u2018Mendo\u2019 H\u00e5kansson has been banned from the battle royale game, with one of his accounts punished for \u201ccheating\u201d. When Apex Legends was still in its infancy, Mendo was widely considered one of the very best in the game, regularly winning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}