Blitzchung reveals in an interview that he skipped a semester of university due to the stress of his 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Hearthstone ban.
Last year, protests erupted in Hong Kong after a proposed🌺 law would have extradited those arrested in Hong Kong to mainland China. It was widely condemned as a power grab by Chinese authorities and an attack on the "one country, two systems" 🐠compromise that saw Hong Kong return to China in 1997.
Those pro﷽tests would involve millions of people that would paralyze th🐟e city. Those protests even months after the proposed law was rescinded.
Even gamers got involved. Ng Wai “Blitzchung” Chung, a Hong Kong native, took the opportunity to protest during a Hearthstone tournament last October. Wearing a pair of goggles, Blitchung repeated a familiar protest call, “l🌺iberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times,” d๊uring a post-match interview.
Following the interview, Blitzchung had his winnings from the tournament withheld and was banned from Hearthstone competition for 12 months. The two casters that interviewed him were also banned ಌf💮rom casting.
The move was wildly condemned by the wider gamer community. Former fans felt that Blizzard had betrayed its ideals in order to sell out to China, and the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:#BoycottBlizzard hashtag trended from the day of Blitzchung’s b༒anning . US Senators ev🎶en got involved.
Blizzard eventually gave back Blitzchung’s tournament winnings and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:shortened the ban to 6 months, but they never apologized.
In an interview with Peoꦬple Make Games, Blitzchung revealed that the whole ordeal was so stressful that he had to take a seme📖ster off from his university studies.
“Way too much going on,” Blitzchung said, referring to the media frenzy that followed his suspension. “I couldn’t handle that much and I decided to skip my school for a semester. I think it was more about me being under the spotlight🅺. That was really stressful to me and also there are two casters involved in the incident and I was really worried about t✤hem as well.”
Blitzchung revealed that he actually traveled to Taiwan last November to apologize in person and was totally forgiven. “O෴ne of the casters was worried more about me than himself. He just told me that everything is OK and ‘you just need to worry about yourself’.”
With the ban up in April, Blitzchung is looking forward to returning to competitive Hearthstone. However, he’ll keep his political comments to his Twitter profile ♏i♋nstead this time.
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