Overwatch League accidentally shows fan\u2019s explicit poster at Shanghai LAN Overwatch LeagueDuring the Chengdu Hunters match against the Seoul Dynasty on July 11, one fan managed to get on camera with an explicit sign that probably shouldn\u2019t have been broadcast to tens of thousands of viewers all around the world. The Chengdu Hunters managed to beat the Seoul Dynasty 3-2 on July 11 and advance in the Summer Showdown playoffs. A great win for the team to be sure, but viewers who tuned into the match were treated to a shot of one fan\u2019s poster that probably should have stayed as just an idea. You can even see it in the VOD on YouTube, at about the 4:45 mark. I am proud to be a @ChengduHunters fan. pic.twitter.com\/qJPnRud1e7 \u2014 Guipsy (@GuipsyOff) July 11, 2021 As you can see in the tweet above, the sign depicts a tiger (Seoul\u2019s mascot) getting sexually assaulted by a panda bear (Chengdu\u2019s mascot), so it\u2019s no wonder quite a few people weren\u2019t pleased when it popped up on the stream. \u201cI\u2019m sorry but why tf is the broadcast showing images like these?\u201d OWL fan gatamchun tweeted. \u201cDoes the Chinese live event cameraman need to be explicitly told that \u2018fan signs graphically depicting sexual assault as a metaphor for winning\u2019 shouldn\u2019t be captured for broadcast????\u201d A lot of people agreed with them, calling the poster \u201cgross\u201d and definitely in bad taste. When it was first tweeted by @GuipsyOff though, the official Chengdu Hunters account replied with the smiling emoji surrounded by hearts. To be fair, the social media manager for the Hunters might not have seen the sign in question in the screenshot before it was too late and the tweet was already sent. They did delete it shortly after though, possibly after they realized what was on the poster. Hours later and Overwatch League Vice President Jon Spector even issued a response. \u201cThanks for flagging this for me,\u201d he said to a fan on Twitter. \u201cWe will address this with our broadcast team and the venue team. This should not have happened. I\u2019m sorry it did.\u201d Considering the drama we\u2019ve seen over signs in Overwatch League in the past, and the fact it\u2019s touted as a \u201cfamily friendly\u201d broadcast (remember when matches were on Disney Channel?) having this slip through the cracks and somehow make it on stream has understandably confused and even angered a lot of longtime fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Overwatch League accidentally shows fan\u2019s explicit poster at Shanghai LAN Overwatch LeagueDuring the Chengdu Hunters match against the Seoul Dynasty on July 11, one fan managed to get on camera with an explicit sign that probably shouldn\u2019t have been broadcast to tens of thousands of viewers all around the world. The Chengdu Hunters managed to […]<\/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-66877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66877","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=66877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}