Fortnite World Cup winner Aqua banned from FNCS by Epic Games Epic GamesFortnite World Cup champion David \u2018aqua\u2019 Wang has been banned by Epic Games, following controversy over alleged stream sniping against FNCS opponents. [jwplayer so0eN9Pk] Aqua\u2019s trio (with Rezon and Noahreyli) have been participating in FNCS Europe and, following the Week 3 semis, were accused of stream-sniping another popular trio: Benjy \u2018Benjyfishy\u2019 Fish, Martin \u2018MrSavage\u2019 Andersen, and Kevin \u2018LeTsHe\u2019 Fedjuschkin. Although fans initially deemed aqua\u2019s behavior suspicious, things quickly escalated. With Benjyfishy\u2019s team unable to qualify for the Week 3 finals and the discovery that aqua was watching MrSavage\u2019s stream during the competition, the controversy has spiraled. Aqua banned by Epic Games On October 25, aqua confirmed that his account had been banned from competitive, with Epic Games simply providing the reason as \u201cother.\u201d Following condemnations of the World Cup winner\u2019s team, rumors began circulating that aqua, Rezon, and Noahreyli had been banned by participating past the first match of the Finals. It was never officially legitimized and has since been made even more unclear by responses from some of the involved parties. I find it hard to believe there is definitive proof of stream sniping so it is odd that Epic have acted so quickly considering a usual absence of any stream sniping repercussions. \u2014 Kristian \u2013 Fortnite esports (@FortniteBRLive) October 24, 2020 After the rumor mill buzzed with the reports that aqua\u2019s team was banned from competing, he took to Twitter and gave a concise clarification denying those allegations: \u201cWe are not banned, we just don\u2019t wanna play. It\u2019s boring without early fighting Benjy.\u201d Given the difficulty inherent to confirming someone was in fact stream-sniping and didn\u2019t coincidentally run into a fellow streamer, many believe it is unlikely that the World Cup winner has actually been exiled from the competition. Additionally, some have noted that bans typically result in removal from the leaderboard, something that aqua\u2019s team has not been hit with. Don’t think that is true tbh\u2026 Like every time players got the ingame ban they got removed from the leaderboard insta! Aqua and them are still on the leaderboard\u2026 My guess is that they got told not to play this finals by epic, so they still can play Heats pic.twitter.com\/fCdX13OmGj \u2014 Zrool \u5c14 (@TheRealZrool) October 24, 2020 As for how the players are handling it, aqua and Benjyfishy simply joked about the incident. https:\/\/twitter.com\/aquaa\/status\/1320073122192805888 At 17 years old, aqua represented his home country of Austria to the fullest by winning the 2019 Fortnite World Cup\u2019s Duos event with Norway\u2019s Emil \u2018Nyhrox\u2019 Bergquist. With a smooth $1.5 million earned from the World Cup, he\u2019s since signed with Cooler Esport and continued to win competitions across Europe. We will continue to update this article with more details as they become available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fortnite World Cup winner Aqua banned from FNCS by Epic Games Epic GamesFortnite World Cup champion David \u2018aqua\u2019 Wang has been banned by Epic Games, following controversy over alleged stream sniping against FNCS opponents. [jwplayer so0eN9Pk] Aqua\u2019s trio (with Rezon and Noahreyli) have been participating in FNCS Europe and, following the Week 3 semis, were […]<\/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-74873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74873","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=74873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}