Esports photographer Chris Bahn banned from a number of FGC events for \u201cUnwanted physical contact\u201d Twitter: BahnismEsports photographer Chris Bahn has been banned from a number of fighting game community events, with one organizer citing \u201cunwanted physical contact\u201d. Allegations against Bahn, a former gaming journalist, surfaced on August 8 through a post made by James Fink on the On Blast Show Facebook page. In the post, Fink also named a number of alleged victims who had \u201ccompared FGC \u2018war stories\u2019\u201d and noted that they all realized that Bahn\u2019s alleged actions were a common theme throughout. Since that point, a number of FGC tournament organizers have stepped forward to ban him from attending. CEO Gaming, who host the annual CEO event in Flordia, tweeted that Bahn would no longer be welcome at their events or any hosted by CEO\u2019s Alex Jebailey. \u201cDue to recently revealed information, Chris Bahn is no longer welcome at any CEO Gaming event or related event hosted by @CEOJebailey. We believe in the safety of our attendees and will continue to provide a safe & fun environment for all to the best of our ability.\u201d Due to recently revealed information, Chris Bahn is no longer welcome at any CEO Gaming event or related event hosted by @CEOJebailey. We believe in the safety of our attendees and will continue to provide a safe & fun environment for all to the best of our ability. \u2014 #CEOtaku on September 27-29, 2019! (@CEOGaming) August 10, 2019 A whole host of other North American based FGC event organizers, including COMBO BREAKER, Big E Gaming, and Texas Showdown, followed CEO\u2019s example with bans and similar statements on attendee safety. \u201cCombo Breaker LLC wants its attendees and fans to know that it will continue to work on providing a safe and inviting environment for you to celebrate competitive fighting games,\u201d tweeted the COMBO BREAKER account. Combo Breaker LLC wants its attendees and fans to know that it will continue to work on providing a safe and inviting environment for you to celebrate competitive fighting games. \u2014 COMBO BREAKER (@ComboBreakerFGC) August 10, 2019 Dexerto have reached out to Bahn for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Esports photographer Chris Bahn banned from a number of FGC events for \u201cUnwanted physical contact\u201d Twitter: BahnismEsports photographer Chris Bahn has been banned from a number of fighting game community events, with one organizer citing \u201cunwanted physical contact\u201d. Allegations against Bahn, a former gaming journalist, surfaced on August 8 through a post made by James […]<\/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-66919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66919","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=66919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}