It's a Hearthstone tournament that purposefully brought Forsen in. Expecting the utmost in professionalism seems like a stretch. The thing to be irritated by was his bad casting, not his remarks.
I expect it has more to do with him not having a chance to actually do any communication past BMing. Reckful's casting was bad, but being offended by it when they invited Forsen seems weird. It's not like they're different people suddenly. Frodan has made jokes regarding Asian stereotypes during casting before, but there's no outrage there. I think a lot of it is just people hated Reckful's casting and are using these dumb remarks as a way to fuel their outrage. Just call it for what it is, he sucked and doesn't need to be casting anything high stakes.
Because people got up in arms about Reckful making these "appalling" comments, but it's a tournament featuring Forsen who's entire persona is built on this stuff and his inclusion is solely for the views and attracting those people. My main point is the outrage over Reckful's comments is asinine given the context of everything and that people should be focusing on him just being awful at casting in general.
But what makes that any better? It's not like one is behind closed doors. There's no separation here like there might be in other real world examples. They both take place on Twitch in full view of anyone that chooses to look.
Reckful deserved to be removed because he was awful. We're not even really disagreeing here, you yourself said the comments weren't the issue.
Well yeah but it was pretty absurd. Like 15/30 cards I got offered nothing but 1-2 drops. The 2 mana slot was easily overcapped on the curve viewer thing. I'm pretty sure it would have been a trainwreck without the giant and echo of medivh. That said, I think I've been picking maybe too few small minions earlier.
Then they shouldn't in the same turn invite Forsen under the banner "Bringing the Cancer" and give him ringers for teammates to justify his inclusion. His spot could've gone to plenty of other more qualified players.
Nothing, he's far more entertaining than Reckful at the very least. I'm just annoyed by the double standard. It's not directed at anyone here either, just the amount of outrage in general seemed unnecessary. Reckful sucked, good on them for getting rid of him. All the outrage was unjustified though.
The source doesn't matter. The point is if you're up in arms about one you should be up in arms about the other. Personally, given the context of both I don't see the point in getting offended. If anything the off kilter race remarks are the one thing that could be seen as bad as it was actually aimed towards people of that ethnicity.
I'm sure people slowly dying from cancer undergo plenty of mental anguish, why is it fair to downplay that compared to rape? You could of course argue that the context shows they don't mean it in that context. You could also argue the same for Reckful's comment.
Aggro druid?
