Four Gears of War pros banned after sexually harassing female streamer Gears Pro CircuitFour Gears of War 5 professional players have been banned indefinitely from the game, and by extension competing in its Pro League, after \u201cmultiple instances of sexual harassment\u201d were recorded on stream. On April 20, the official Gears of War Esports account announced on Twitter that they had to postpone some of the matches for the week due to \u201can incident concerning some of our players, which needs to be investigated.\u201d A day later, they came out with a press release stating that pro players Sam \u2018Vital\u2018 Salmani, Noah \u2018Noey\u2018 White, Alec \u2018ShocK\u2018 Collins and \u2018Reptilian\u2018 had all been banned indefinitely for \u201cmultiple instances of sexual harassment\u201d of a smaller streamer. Competitive Ruling \u2013 Code of Conduct Violations Read: https:\/\/t.co\/bxKNuGMzpK \u2014 Gears Esports (@GearsEsports) April 23, 2021 \u201cOn the evening of April 19, 2021, several active Pro League players joined the live broadcast of a female Gears 5 streamer and proceeded to inundate the chat with offensive language directed at the streamer for over 90 minutes,\u201d the ruling from Gears Esports read. \u201cEventually leading to the streamer ending her broadcast early.\u201d The streamer in question is named ThatLadyTho, a smaller Twitch streamer with roughly 570 followers at the time of writing. Looking at the chat logs, it\u2019s not hard to see why some of the stuff said by the players could cause this type of reaction from Gears Esports. The streamer did abruptly end the broadcast just as the report said, and since then, it happened she doesn\u2019t seem to have streamed on Twitch at all. After the new of the bans broke on the 21st, Vital and Shock both put out tweets about the incident, while Noey and Reptillian\u2019s known Twitter accounts seem to have been deleted. Esports org Elevate, who Shock played for before his suspension, said they would be placing the pro on the bench to \u201cdispute\u201d the ruling, even with the pro banned for the foreseeable future. I didn\u2019t expect my gears career to end like this. I\u2019m glad for all the memories and the fact I was able to get one \ud83c\udfc6. Not sure where to go from here but thanks for supporting the journey \ud83d\udc94 \u2014 S (@VitalTheOne) April 23, 2021 https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShockSZN\/status\/1385688557243801600?s=20 Finally, Vanquish, Hive, Noble and Elevate \u2014 the four Gears Pro League teams who lost players to this ruling \u2014 will be allowed to promote their substitute player and\/or pick up one Challenger player to complete their rosters going forward. Despite this, losing these four players out of the blue like this does seem to have the potential to shake up some of the top teams in Gears esports going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Four Gears of War pros banned after sexually harassing female streamer Gears Pro CircuitFour Gears of War 5 professional players have been banned indefinitely from the game, and by extension competing in its Pro League, after \u201cmultiple instances of sexual harassment\u201d were recorded on stream. On April 20, the official Gears of War Esports account […]<\/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-66608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66608","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=66608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}