xQc banned from Twitch after Fall Guys stream sniping controversy Twitch: xQcTwitch has taken action against its most-watched broadcaster, Felix \u2018xQc\u2019 Lengyel, following controversy during the GlitchCon 2020 Twitch Rivals event. xQc was accused of \u2018stream sniping\u2019 opponents during the Fall Guys portion of the event, which landed him in hot water with other big-name streamers, including shroud, DrLupo and tyler1. xQc has been suspended from Twitch for 7 days for stream sniping in Twitch Rivals – Twitch has also banned him from Twitch Rivals events for 6 months – He must forfeit his prize money from GlitchCon – xQc is currently the most-watched, and highest-earning, broadcaster on the platform – Shroud and tyler1 both speculated that he could face a ban from the platform, although wondered if Twitch would be lenient given Lengyel\u2019s status on the platform. He was by far the most-watched streamer in terms of hours watched throughout October 2020. xQc banned after stream sniping However, stream sniping is explicitly mentioned as a violation of Twitch\u2019s community guidelines, and all broadcasters are held to the same standard. Shortly following the announcement, xQc put out a tweet confirming that his Twitch suspension is for seven days, which would make Wednesday, November 25 the earliest he can stream agin on the platform. What I did had no impact on the outcome but it was wrong. Sorry again, I wasn’t trying to cheat out of malice I was just trying to entertain. 7 days suspension for now. Ride like lightning, crash like thunder. Go agane. PS: Give my winning to charity and i’ll match it pic.twitter.com\/48hgZQoyg0 \u2014 xQc (@xQc) November 18, 2020 In addition to the temporary ban, xQc is also prohibited from competing in any Twitch Rivals events for six months and has forfeited his prize money from the GlitchCon 2020 event. The streamer has announced that he\u2019ll be giving his winnings to an undisclosed charity as well as match the amount. At GlitchCon our player conduct rules were violated. We require all participants to abide by the same rules in order to play in a tournament. As a result, xQc has been issued a temporary Twitch account suspension, a temporary Twitch Rivals ban & forfeited associated prize money. pic.twitter.com\/SA8umOdS9E \u2014 Twitch Rivals (@TwitchRivals) November 18, 2020 xQc immediately apologized for his actions in the aftermath of the stream sniping fiasco, and asked his fans not to defend him. He admitted it was wrong: \u201cI\u2019m sorry for my actions. I thought it would be funny. It did not change the outcome but it was still malicious. Sorry.\u201d This is xQc\u2019s fourth suspension from Twitch in as many years. The statement from Twitch Rivals reads: \u201cWe take Twitch Rivals player conduct extremely seriously. This type of behavior is unacceptable and will not be taken lightly.\u201d The ban is of particular note, as it is one of the very rare times Twitch will take action against one of it\u2019s top streamers. According to reports, xQc was the highest-earning streamer on all of Twitch throughout 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
xQc banned from Twitch after Fall Guys stream sniping controversy Twitch: xQcTwitch has taken action against its most-watched broadcaster, Felix \u2018xQc\u2019 Lengyel, following controversy during the GlitchCon 2020 Twitch Rivals event. xQc was accused of \u2018stream sniping\u2019 opponents during the Fall Guys portion of the event, which landed him in hot water with other big-name […]<\/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-65080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65080","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=65080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}