Overwatch Pros Fined $1000 Over Inappropriate Chat Behavior
Two players in the Overwatch League have faced fines after their team chat was revealed during a match stream.
The Overwatch League, the face of pro gaming in Overwatch, has issued fines to two players for writing inappropriate messages during a match, unaware that the team chat was visible to match viewers. Los Angeles Valiant member Jung-won "Lastro" Mun and San Francisco Shock's Dong-jun "Rascal" Kim have been the recipients of $1000 fines, as reported by The Loadout.
Both fines are listed on the Overwatch League Player Discipline Tracker as cases of "inappropriate chat" during a match over several immature messages. Lastro typed "sex" and "big dick", which Rascal followed with "big dick" and characters that (very loosely) approximate the shape of a penis.
You can see their chat, including the moment where their teammates let them know that the chat is visible on stream, in the tweet below.
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO pic.twitter.com/sOmgY4Y1vJ
— PHΛЯΛӨH (@PharaohOW) April 5, 2020
Lastro has since apologized for the incident on Twitter, explaining that he did not realize that the chat could be seen by viewers.
I thought the viewers could not see the match chat because everyone was typing in it. I wrote it as a joke, although I should not have done it regardless of whether the viewers could see the match chat or not. I will make sure something like this never happens again.
— Lastro (@Lastro_OW) April 5, 2020
For what its worth, it seems that LA Valiant teammate McGravy is taking it in his stride.
Overwatch recently added a new hero called Echo. They will be the last new character added before the upcoming Overwatch 2, which does not have a set release date yet.
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