The platform Twitch has temporarily banned the LoL streamer Ashkan “TFBlade” Homayouni. In September 2019, he was the most-watched streamer of League of Legends. TF Blade is known for his good skills in League of Legends. But a world record seems to have pushed him over the edge – he called players in Turkey dogs.
Is TFBlade the biggest streamer? At the moment, TFBlade is at least the most-watched LoL streamer on Twitch. He has accumulated 2.4 million viewer hours in the last 30 days. The second-placed, the Korean Ambition, only reached 2 million hours (via Twitchmetrics).
In terms of followers, TFBlade is only in 25th place with 630,000. Streamers like Tyler1 and eSports players like Bjergsen, Doublelift, or Faker are far ahead of him.
However, the viewer hours and the growth of his Twitch channel show that TFBlade streams a lot and apparently produces content that people really want to see. But that’s exactly what will be his downfall.
Frustration, fatigue, pressure led to outburst
What was TFBlade banned for? Initially, this was not known.
TFBlade only said: He was banned again on Twitch. He indicated that: A “chain of unfortunate events” had occurred. However, he says he will be back soon. Apparently, it is just a temporary ban from Twitch.
Meanwhile, TFBlade has spoken up and explained: He was banned for calling Turkish LoL players “dogs” and “unintelligent”.
The behavior in the chat of the Turkish LoL already earned him a 14-day ban from Riot Turkey. That was a little more than a week ago.
TFBlade didn’t know he could be banned for that
This is what TFBlade says: He says he didn’t know he could be banned for calling people or a region “dogs” or “unintelligent” – even if it was out of pure frustration.
He behaved this way because he was under pressure to achieve his goal of reaching rank 1. To do this, he played 16 hours a day and wanted to give his best. However, he was deliberately hindered by other players who behaved toxically towards him.
He was frustrated, tired, and angry, and he let his negative emotions run free, he says.
TFBlade apologizes to the people he hurt. That was never his intention.
World record attempt seems to be breaking TFBlade
What is TFBlade doing right now? The Twitch streamer is considered an excellent LoL player. But he has taken on a task that seems to be pushing him to his limit: He wants to become number 1 on each server in all “LoL regions of the world after being so successful in North America.
And that seems to be wearing him out.
For this endeavor, he has to create new accounts and then level up from “Unranked” to 1st place in a region. That is already difficult enough.
However, since he is a well-known Twitch streamer, he is being troubled by trolls who want to sabotage him: The term TFBlade uses for this is “Int” for “Intentional Feeding”, meaning to play poorly on purpose.
Europe trip is taking a toll on TFBlade
Why is LoL getting to him? TFBlade embarked on a trip to Europe a month ago. He recently traveled to the Netherlands. This whole trip lasted over a month and has taken a toll on him.
He writes that he has played only on a laptop without stable internet during that time.
During the trip, he was heavily trolled by players who wanted to impede his world record. He was dissatisfied with the results.
He actually didn’t want to give up, but the circumstances now left him no choice. He is now on his way back to Canada and will finish “Turkey and EUNE” later.
“He urgently needs to detox”
This is how people discuss it: On reddit , the ban of TFBlade is a big topic.
People there say TFBlade is an excellent player, but this world record is destroying him.
TFBlade plays countless ranked matches a day and tries to go from “Unranked” to “Rank 1”. In doing so, he often snaps at his teammates, even though they play at a much lower level than he does.
He has now become toxic to no end: LoL, tilt, and the pressure are getting to him. He urgently needs to take longer breaks between matches to detox.
One player even says: “Before he becomes number one on all servers, he will rather be banned from all servers.”
It’s going to be interesting to see what exactly the “unfortunate events” were that led to the Twitch ban.
This is not the first ban of TFBlade on Twitch this year:
