Smash Bros. coach parts ways with Tempo Storm amid sexual assault allegations Global esports powerhouse Tempo Storm announced the recent departure of Super Smash Bros. Coach Daniel \u2018Pierce7d\u2019 Seraphin as allegations have surfaced involving a string of sexual harassment\/assault accusations. Although Tempo Storm didn\u2019t specify the reason for his departure, Pierce7d maintains that it was his choice to leave the organization. Through series of Twitter threads, numerous claims have been made against Pierce7d that follow a similar pattern of behavior toward those he\u2019s been in contact with, the most prominent coming from photographer and content creator Kat aka \u2018Princess Hyrule.\u2019 you\u2019re even lying to yourself. you really don\u2019t remember CEO beach house? you don\u2019t remember WRAPPING your arms around my waist until i couldn\u2019t move?? please, pierce. you can lie to them but you can\u2019t fucking lie to me. \u2014 Kat :sparkles::soon:G6 (@princesshyruIe) January 22, 2019 In light of accusations, Tempo Storm\u2019s only signed Smash Ultimate player Gonzalo \u2018ZeRo\u2019 Barrios released a public statement of his own, condemning the actions of Pierce. \u201cI don\u2019t stand for Pierce\u2019s behavior or his actions at all. I worked with Pierce for a long time and thought I knew him, but only after signing was done did people close to me make me aware of the extent of his past actions, and I honestly felt disgusted,\u201d ZeRo said. ZeRo also revealed that the he and the organization worked to find the quickest way of dropping the Super Smash coach after the accounts had come to light. My statement on the Pierce situation. pic.twitter.com\/68kIFN4oGk \u2014 Tempo ZeRo (@zerowondering) January 22, 2019 Even after departing from Tempo Storm, Pierce7d was looking forward to the upcoming Genesis 6 on February 1 to be his last major event, but has since been banned from attending. \u201cFYI for concerned attendees, Pierce will not be attending Genesis 6,\u201d the tournament\u2019s official Twitter announced. Many in the Smash community are actively voicing their disdain and outright reproach against the former Coach. Pierce is currently replying to anyone who is seeking further details on the matter. Pierce will look to continue his Smash career by making instructional videos on the game. had a really busy day but we wanted to make sure it was clearhttps:\/\/t.co\/a0krfxzXnP \u2014 Bear :soon: Genesis 6 #G6 (@BearUNLV) January 22, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Smash Bros. coach parts ways with Tempo Storm amid sexual assault allegations Global esports powerhouse Tempo Storm announced the recent departure of Super Smash Bros. Coach Daniel \u2018Pierce7d\u2019 Seraphin as allegations have surfaced involving a string of sexual harassment\/assault accusations. Although Tempo Storm didn\u2019t specify the reason for his departure, Pierce7d maintains that it was […]<\/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-66970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66970","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=66970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}