In Call of Duty: Vanguard a tournament with $110,000 took place. Each team had to include one woman. The tournament caused a lot of excitement as a female player was removed from her team at short notice to make room for another woman, who turned out to be a cheater.
What kind of tournament is this? The tournament was the “eFuse Black Friday 110k Search and Save Tournament.” The prize pool of $110,000 (€97,000) was the highest ever in Call of Duty: Vanguard, according to the US site Dexerto.
The tournament had a specific requirement for the team roster. There were two options for how teams could look:
- A female content creator, another content creator, and a current pro from the league
- A female content creator and two other content creators
Pro invites woman, kicks her off the team before the start
This was the drama: The 27-year-old American Doug “Censor” Martin assembled a team as a pro and invited a woman, “ShawnJ Gaming”, a YouTuber and Twitch streamer focused on Call of Duty.
As ShawnJ reports, she was removed from the roster just a few hours after the team was set. Censor replaced her with a new player. He informed her abruptly via a direct message without further explanation.
But then a clip surfaced showing that the new player in the team was apparently using wallhacks in a match in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (via twitter).
She was thus exposed as a cheater.
Team disbands, needs to be reassembled, fails
This is how it went on: The new player was banned from the tournament as a cheater by the admins.
- As a result, the third person from Censor’s team also dropped out and did not want to participate anymore.
- ShawnJ Gaming laughed her head off on Twitter and said: No one could believe she would jump back in just because the team was falling apart. That wasn’t her problem.
- Censor had to quickly assemble a new team, but couldn’t make any progress and got eliminated 0-3 from the tournament.
This is how it’s being discussed: The pro is already receiving some schadenfreude. Because he removed ShawnJ from the team at short notice, but everything turned against him afterwards, people are saying that “karma” has come back to haunt him.
We have already reported on Doug “Censor” Martin on MeinMMO. Ironically, it was also about women:
Ex-pro explains why he preferred playing Call of Duty over dating women
