Ninja bans ZexRow from Fortnite events after controversial interview Red Bull \/ Twitch: ZexRowTyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins has banned 19-year-old Anthony \u2018ZexRow\u2019 Colandro from future Ninja Battle events after a controversial and curse-filled interview in the very first broadcast. \u2018Ninja Battles featuring Fortnite\u2019 was announced on May 28. The brand new event spans six weeks with $80,000 up for grabs each time around. While some of the biggest names in the scene are ready to get involved, one pro player has already found themselves barred from the competition. Team SoloMid\u2019s ZexRow took home the first-week win with 59 points, but his post-game interview immediately landed him in hot water. Shortly after a controversial response, the pro has been barred from all future Ninja Battles. Following his team\u2019s victory in the first week of the event, ZexRow was interviewed in front of nearly 15,000 live viewers on Ninja\u2019s Mixer stream. He was also broadcasting his perspective on his own Twitch channel at the time. When asked for final comments he unloaded a curse-ridden barrage of insults to all others in the competition. \u201cEveryone that didn\u2019t place in top 10 can suck my d***. They\u2019re f***ing s****ers. I don\u2019t know why they talk s***, they\u2019re actually also dogs*** and braindead.\u201d Immediately regretting his outburst, ZexRow took to Twitter and issued an apology. \u201cForgot parents watch, I\u2019m sorry,\u201d he said. \u201cCongrats on your first and last Ninja Battles placement,\u201d Ninja quickly responded. Seemingly blocking the pro from any future weeks of competition. The Mixer streamer didn\u2019t take kindly to the insults hurled at fellow pros and content creators involved in the tournament. As a result, it\u2019s clear that ZexRow will not be invited back for the remaining five weeks of Ninja Battles. \u201cI am actually really sorry about that,\u201d he later expanded. \u201cIt was a really bad lapse in judgement and I didn\u2019t think in the moment and forgot that there [were] kids watching, and even so it was too far.\u201d He went on to post a Twitlonger apologizing again to Ninja, the tournament organizers and the fans watching. Many in the community flamed ZexRow for his statements, some even pushing for the pro to be dropped from his organization Team SoloMid. \u201cIt was a big mistake but I\u2019ve made a lot of those,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ll ask them if I can leave.\u201d Only time will tell, however, if today\u2019s actions will indeed leave the Fortnite pro orgless. Week 2 of the Ninja Battles event will be back on June 4 at 12 PM PST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ninja bans ZexRow from Fortnite events after controversial interview Red Bull \/ Twitch: ZexRowTyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins has banned 19-year-old Anthony \u2018ZexRow\u2019 Colandro from future Ninja Battle events after a controversial and curse-filled interview in the very first broadcast. \u2018Ninja Battles featuring Fortnite\u2019 was announced on May 28. The brand new event spans six weeks with […]<\/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-76668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76668","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=76668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}