Vitality fined $10,000 for stream sniping

Elliott Griffiths
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Back in the early 1800's, when NiP were in the middle of their 87-0 run, the UK exported a whole bunch of criminals across the planet to Australia.

Now we're not saying that contributed to anything, but 35 people in the Oceanic region just got busted for betting-related offences. We'll leave the conclusions up to you on that one.

Perhaps the bigger story, however, is that Vitality have been fined $10,000 dollars for having the stream of the game they were playing on in the background. They could have just done 'the Nivera' and peek over ZywOo's shoulder to watch the game - it's the best view anyway.

Worryingly it was in view of the players if they turned around, and of course, the internet went wild and called them stream snipers, complaining about the society that we do indeed, live in. But ESIC as more moderate people, fined the organisation, concluding that it was just the staff watching it.

Nothing nefarious going on, guys. Except ZywOo's gameplay. Sheesh!

January 24, 2021

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