Finally free: TF Blade’s Twitch suspension has been lifted
The streaming platform has not yet issued an apology though.
Just after three days of being suspended from Twitch after an alleged racial slur, Team Liquid’s TF Blade is back on the live streaming platform.
The League of Legends top-laner Ashkan “TF Blade” Homayouni announced on Twitter that he was finally free from Twitch’s ban on his account.
FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
The trouble began on April 24, when TF Blade tweeted on his personal account that he was banned from Twitch for saying the “N-word” while streaming. The LoL player claimed he uttered the word “idiots” instead, and even slowed down the actual clip to prove his point not just to Twitch but to his fans as well.
The professional player then received an e-mail from a Twitch official explaining that they had played the clip to people a lot of times, and “all consistently heard the N-word”.
While TF Blade’s Twitch account was initially set to be suspended for 30 days, his appeals and a lack of past violation records saw the suspension shortened to seven days.
Team Liquid’s co-CEO and owner Steve Arhancettweeted that he had listened to the clip for 20 timesand it was “clear” to him that TF Blade was saying “idiots”, and added that he was reaching out to Twitch to remove the ban and obtain “an apology for the misunderstanding”. Team Liquid’s LoL coach Mark Zimmerman also jumped to TF Blade’s defense.
Day 3 of “can a company admit a mistake” watch.Twitch still has@TFBladebanned and is damaging his livelihood because he has an accent.
Former LCS commentator Zirene also has a few things to say.
The whole@tfbladesituation is awful. I once said “And that was great” on broadcast and a small amount of people thought I said “And that was rape”!It feels really unfair to argue against what people HEAR. What you SAID is what matters. They are directly calling him a liar.
With the ban lifted, things are back to normal for TF Blade, and the player has already climbed up to Grandmaster in the EUW servers. That said, Twitch has yet to issue an apology.
