This move has come with some hiccups, however. Now that fans are technically spectating each match, rather than seeing a proper stream, they can now see the player’s text chats to each other. Which proved problematic when San Francisco Shock’s Dong-jun “Rascal” Kim and Los Angeles Valiant’s Jung-won “Lastro” Mun started sending each other harmless but moderately inappropriate words as a laugh.
It really was harmless: Mun typed “sex” and “big dick” into the chat, Kim returned fire with a “big dick” of their own, which the other players were laughing at. They kept at it for a bit until the killjoy, SF Shock tank player Matthew “Super” DeLisi, pointed out that the audience could see the chat. This prompted both an in-game and a Twitter apology:
“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. I apologize to all the fans and OWL viewers.”
As controversies go, this barely counts as one since it was just kids being kids, but technically they do need to keep the stream appropriate for all ages, so the Overwatch League fined both players 1,000 bucks.
…And that’s pretty much the whole story, but it’s worth a chuckle if you ask me.
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