Esports Players Demand Better Event Security Following Mass Shooting at a Madden Tournament Esports pros and fans have called for security at events to be improved after a mass shooting took place at a Madden tournament in Jacksonville, Florida. According to Jacksonville Sherriff Mike Williams, three fatalities and fourteen injuries have been confirmed following the incident at the GLHF Game Bar in the Jacksonville Landing on Sunday afternoon, leading players such as Call of Duty pro Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner, Smash player Dark NAKAT, and CS:GO pro Markus Kj\u00e6rbye to ask for increased security at future tournaments. Call of Duty champion Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner suggested that something should have been done about security to avoid such a incident taking place. \u201cI\u2019ve been saying events NEED better security. Such a damn shame that now event coordinators will respond after a tragedy happens. Thoughts are with everyone at the Madden tournament and their families.\u201d believes that mandatory security checks should take place at every esports event. \u201cI\u2019ve been saying for a longggg time now that eSports events should have mandatory security checks. Now a shooting breaks out at a Madden event. I feel so bad for the victims and those who were at the location of the shooting. Disgusting things like this should never happen.\u201d CS:GO pro Markus Kj\u00e6rbye is another player who feels that extra security at events should have been considered before now. \u201cWe live in a crazy world. Lost for words, sending all my prayers to the victims and their families involved in the shooting at a Madden esports tournament in Florida. Really awful this happened, before the security at gaming events was taken seriously enough. Heartbreaking\u201d 600https:\/\/twitter.com\/ipidev\/status\/1033849428216635392<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Esports Players Demand Better Event Security Following Mass Shooting at a Madden Tournament Esports pros and fans have called for security at events to be improved after a mass shooting took place at a Madden tournament in Jacksonville, Florida. According to Jacksonville Sherriff Mike Williams, three fatalities and fourteen injuries have been confirmed following the […]<\/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-86889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86889","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=86889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}