Last night, over 1,000 players signed up to the Coinbox Street Fighter 6 tournament, hosted and organized by professional Smash Bros player Hungrybox. During this tournament, racial slurs were attributed to two players live over the course of an entire match.
Initial guesses pointed to a hacker bypassing security measures and changing the player's pronoun tags to the racial slurs, knowing they would should up on stream beneath the competitor's names. However, upon digging into the situation fingers were pointed at a technical fault with the software used to automatically pull player information from the tournament listing and placing it on stream. Ultimately, an apology was issued by Hungrybox to both Punk and XSpoonX, who were the two players affected.
This technical fault was initially waived off as a joke that both players had knowledge of before the match. Start.gg, the tournament website used to organise the event, allows players to set their own pronouns on the account they use to sign up to tournaments like Streetbox. The software in use by the tournament organisers is meant to scan the accounts of players on stream, display accurate information on them such as their names, Twitter account, and pronouns, and display it on stream.
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