Epic Games drop Fortnite caster AussieAntics after he calls player a \u201closer\u201d FNCS\/Aussie AnticsOne of the most beloved faces in the Fortnite community has surprisingly been dropped from the official broadcasting team after he made comments towards a player during a viewing party. Controversy and Fortnite have unfortunately come hand in hand in recent months, recently professional player WavyJacob was banned due to a violation of the family-friendly name rules within the code of conduct. Then, on June 25 it was announced that Australian caster Shaun \u201cAussieAntics\u201d Cochrane, who\u2019s risen to become one of the most well-known names in the Fortnite competitive scene, had been dropped from the official broadcast team due to a violation of the community guidelines. Dropped from the Fortnite broadcast team Aussie surprised everyone in the community when he tweeted he was \u201cDropped from the official broadcast\u201d just a few hours before we was set to broadcast the final regions of the FNCS All-Star Showdown on June 26. Dropped from the official broadcast. Going live in 5 minutes to explain why. I will be doing a viewing party for NAE Solo FNCS Finals as well. \u2014 AussieAntics (@AussieAntics) June 26, 2021 He quickly took to Twitch to explain the reason why he was dropped from the team, and it didn\u2019t take long for fans to start calling the decision a questionable one from Epic Games. In short, he was streaming a viewing party of the Oceanic FNCS All-Star Showdown solo finals on June 25, and one of the players towards the bottom of the leaderboard changed his drop spot to land on someone in the top ten. Aussie noted he was friends with the player getting landed on, and proceeded to call the other player a \u201closer\u201d, which was apparently the last straw for Epic Games. After a meeting, he was notified that he has been removed from the official broadcast team for the foreseeable future and does not know if he will ever return. He continued on to say how he\u2019ll continue to call out players who he thinks deserve it and says there\u2019s little hope he is going to reappear on the broadcast team with his follow-up comments. This marks the second prominent caster that has been dropped from the official team, as Arten \u2018BallaTW\u2019 Esa was removed due to his blog post on why solo\u2019s should not be a competitive event. It\u2019s here. My blog about why I believe solos should be relegated as a focus point of competitive Fortnite. They hold a special place in our hearts, and have given us a crazy bit of excitement\/fun. \u2014 Ballatw (@Ballatw) August 18, 2020 We will have to wait and see whether or not AussieAntics will make it back on the Fortnite stream in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Epic Games drop Fortnite caster AussieAntics after he calls player a \u201closer\u201d FNCS\/Aussie AnticsOne of the most beloved faces in the Fortnite community has surprisingly been dropped from the official broadcasting team after he made comments towards a player during a viewing party. Controversy and Fortnite have unfortunately come hand in hand in recent months, […]<\/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-72045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72045","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=72045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}