Super Smash Con, a keystone of the Super Smash Bros. community♒ that features tournament play of e🐲very single Smash game within a fully Nintendo-centric convention environment, has announced that☂ tournament participant Osiris197 will no longer be allowed to attend the event in response to a multitude of accounts of past violent behavior and verbal harassment.
Most recently, a fistfight between Osiris and anotheღr player at this past June’s Community Effort Orlando fighting game tournament has served as a catalyst for posts about Osiris’ past behavior to surface on . His responses to these allegatioꦏns have ranged from admitting partial fault to defending h꧟is use of a racial slur.
At Community Effort Orlando, Osiris and a player named RiotLet🏅tuce engaged in a fist fight in response to Osiris having knocking a water jug out of a third player’s hands earlier during the event. Both Osiris and RiotLettuce posted individual accounts of the fight to Twitter, and while each differs significantly as to who was the aggressor, ꩵOsiris does claim responsibility for his own physical aggression and admits to being intoxicated at the time.
When it was made pꦉublic that Osiris would be attending Super Smash C🍰on, RiotLettuce a Twitter DM correspondence with the convention’s Twitter acco๊unt. Super Smash Con stated that they had already reached out to Osiris, and reached a mutual agreeme🦂nt that he could be removed from the tournament after a single misgiving by tournament staff, but would still be allowed to attend.
As further accounts of Osiris’ behavior surfaced and were shared within the community, senti🐽ment shifted toward Osiris’ presence at the tournament being a safety issue. Super Smash Con later posted a statement to ꦯTwitter declaring that Osiris197 would no longer be allowed to attend.
Fol🐎lowing the convention’s post, Osไiris released his own simultaneously questioning the level of discipline leveled against him while also admitting t👍hat some of his past behavior was regrettable. He then Tweeted that he would be attending rehab and therapy, and opened his Twi♈tter DMs to anyone interested in reaching out to him directly.
This comes on the heels of fellow Smash player CaptainZack to past match fixing, for which he was banned from play at Smash Cꦬon, but would still be allowed to attend. Super Smash Con will take place from Augustඣ 8 to 11 in Chantilly, VA, hopefully without further incident.