Richard Lewis reacts at BLAST Global Finals: \u201cI would have disqualified Team Vitality\u201d Richard Lewis reacts to the alleged stream sniping controversy at the BLAST Premier Global Finals, as concerns were raised after Team Vitality appeared to have a stream of the event playing in their tournament room. While it\u2019s probably an accident on Vitality\u2019s front, Richard believes that he\u2019d have disqualified them to prove a point to all CS:GO organizations that there\u2019s a zero-tolerance policy on stream sniping. He adds that it\u2019s important not to point the finger at ESIC, because BLAST should have dealt with the situation straight away. Lewis is of the opinion that keeping those who are allowed into the room during play at a minimum is vital, as it keeps foul play at bay. With swarms of fans all over the world and a player that was recently crowned as the best player within the scene, he believes that there\u2019s a lot of deflecting. Read More: Team Liquid right to ditch Twistzz – Many are stating that the stream wasn\u2019t even of their game, but Richard rebuts this as misinformation, stating that while the stream is delayed by a few minutes, it still allows information to come through into how the opposition is performing. Being featured on the front page of Reddit, Lewis believes that BLAST should have taken a stand. All this being said, though, he isn\u2019t saying that they have cheated, even going so far as to say, \u201cI\u2019m sure it\u2019s just an accident,\u201d but maintains that as the stand-out, high profile team, Vitality taking a penalty would have shown the seriousness of this offense, accidental or not: \u201cNo joke, I would have disqualified Vitality, I would have.\u201d For all Counter-Strike news and events, make sure to check out our dedicated hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Richard Lewis reacts at BLAST Global Finals: \u201cI would have disqualified Team Vitality\u201d Richard Lewis reacts to the alleged stream sniping controversy at the BLAST Premier Global Finals, as concerns were raised after Team Vitality appeared to have a stream of the event playing in their tournament room. While it\u2019s probably an accident on Vitality\u2019s […]<\/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-38843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38843","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=38843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}