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CHINA’S INFLUENCE
Companies who’ve apologized to the Chinese govt/implemented their censorship
https://caffeine-overload.github.io/bandinchina/
Video summary of NBA incident (0:00-1:14)
https://twitter.com/bomani_jones/status/1181328345352540164
BLIZZARD HEARTHSTONE TOURNAMENT INCIDENT
Blitzchung calls for the liberation of Hong Kong in post-game interview
Stream abruptly cut, VOD deleted
https://twitter.com/InvenGlobal/status/1180954142396710912
Virtual 偷米: Just say the 8 words and we can end the interview here. No need to chat more after that. Is that ok producer?
Virtual 偷米: Let's lower our heads
Blitzchung: 光復香港，時代革命！
Virtual 偷米: Ok we can come back to us now. Wow, 璁哥 Brother Chung. Was that too short? I think that's enough.
Hearthstone Grandmasters Asia-Pacific Ruling
https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/blog/23179289
Comments disabled, FB is on fire tho
https://www.facebook.com/pg/Blizzard/posts/?ref=page_internal
A Chinese Taipei player in the 2018 Hearthstone Global Games was caught cheating and was DQ’d from competing in that tournament, and that was it.
https://liquipedia.net/hearthstone/Hearthstone_Global_Games/2018 (DQ TAB)
He went on to compete in tourney’s immediately after
https://liquipedia.net/hearthstone/Roger
Here’s the official ruling on the above
https://bnetcmsus-a.akamaihd.net/cms/content_entry_media/7k/7KCOYJKOIT2K1561501770542.pdf
Hearthstone rules and policies
https://playhearthstone.com/en-gb/esports/programs/rules-and-policies
Here are the current rules (page 10, 6.1)
https://bnetcmsus-a.akamaihd.net/cms/page_media/w4/W4NWIBHB74T31564507077190.pdf
Player Handbook (Page 21, 6.3 (b) i. through (e) THEN cheating Page 30, 7.11 (c))
http://bnetcmsus-a.akamaihd.net/cms/page_media/px/PXYB9IHSRQLF1564507343607.pdf
Media and Political Backlash
https://www.vox.com/2019/10/8/20904433/blizzard-hong-kong-hearthstone-blitzchung
https://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/27799570/blizzard-suspendeds-hearthstone-player-blitzchung-vocalizing-support-anti-goverment-hong-kong-protestors-postgame-interview
Southpark ep. Band in China illustrates Chinese influence over US Media, gets banned in China
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/south-park-banned-chinese-internet-critical-episode-1245783
Their response
https://twitter.com/southpark/status/1181273539799736320?s=21
Blizzard employees stage walkout, cover “Every voice matters” and “Think Globally” signs
https://twitter.com/lackofrealism/status/1181639970332659712
https://www.techspot.com/news/82287-blizzard-employees-stage-walkout-over-hearthstone-pro-player.html
Countless folks cancelling their WoW subscription (replies)
https://twitter.com/akamikeb/status/1181578891812466688
r/Blizzard is a beautiful disaster
https://www.reddit.com/r/Blizzard/
Actual politicians speaking up
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/8/20905181/blizzard-hearthstone-player-ban-marco-rubio-ron-wyden-china-hong-kong-protests-blitzchung
Casters voicing their support of HK and subsequently quitting
https://www.polygon.com/2019/10/9/20906844/hearthstone-brian-kibler-quits-grandmasters-blizzard-blitzchung-hong-kong
Moderator of Hearthstone steps down
https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/dfag8e/stepping_down_from_the_mod_team/
Tim Sweeney of Epic explicitly states that this won’t happen on his watch
https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1181946357759844352
Assistant coach to Dallas Fuel OWL instructed to remove tweet supporting HK
https://i.imgur.com/koFyhEm.png
An American Uni holds up a “Free Hong Kong, Boycott Blizzard” sign during Collegiate Hearthstone event and was not banned, but then forfeited their participation in next tourney due to Blizzard’s hypocritical behavior (there’s no winning here)
https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/1181778525025644546
https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/dg7d9m/au_player_here_we_arent_being_punished_for_the/
Mei being made a mascot for HK, shows up in actual HK protests
https://twitter.com/fruitsp_/status/1182547053609652224?s=20
IMPACT ON OTHER GAMING EVENTS
League Worlds casters afraid to say Hong Kong Attitude? (OCT 5TH)
HKA owners are not pro Hong Kong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHEiLIGtLFU&t=237
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEqn3FlKJdM&t=535
https://youtu.be/qHEiLIGtLFU?t=716
Old VODs where they say either HKA or Hong Kong Attitude but not both
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-cxhCCYnJs&feature=youtu.be&t=450
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-cxhCCYnJs&feature=youtu.be&t=765
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-cxhCCYnJs&feature=youtu.be&t=923
https://youtu.be/SnDnjvUyOaM?t=42
https://youtu.be/SnDnjvUyOaM?t=175
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjgPMtSCP2w&feature=youtu.be&t=280
Riot posts message reiterating the “no political, religious statements” rule ahead of Worlds this weekend
https://twitter.com/lolesports/status/1182711322791698432/photo/1
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