They are very flexible because they know fans like it. In baseball a batter can flip a bat a million times in the air after a home run with no penalty. Football players will dance/spike the ball in the end zone after a TD. Basketball players will do similar stuff after a dunk. All those sports are pretty popular and showboating hasn’t driven them to bankruptcy yet.
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They are supposed to be entertaining too.
You wanna watch a bland league where ______ player plays _____ and doesn’t have a real human element that people can connect with or follow?
They’re not there to set a good example, they’re there to put on a show of the top tier and garner their own personal followings off of their achievements and personality.
No one is trying to condone murder/physical abuse or saying drugs are cool, the only example they need to set is PLAYING THE GAME TO THE BEST OF THEIR ABILITY, if you expect more of them then idk what to tell you, go look for someone TRYING TO SET THAT EXAMPLE, and as people have seen from the outside in to k-pop idols, setting that standard is mentally damaging for those who are forced to do it.
Let them be human, and let people connect with them, let people laugh, and let people have a favorite. Tbagging is hilarious as much as it lets people see the humans operating on stage rather than robots we are disconnected from who just play really good.
If they ban these harmless forms of self expression that would probably signify the last time I watch the OWL on principle, we already had that pepe ban ( i thought it was dumb but it was also whatever to me) then they say the ok sign is hate speech and removed people from the venue (that one made me mad, simple signal that will never and has never meant white supremacy to me - but again, I was outside of it) and if they actively go on to ban the next innofensive thing that ADDS to the value of watching the broadcasts, then yeah, I’m out.
I hate that kinda stuff. Banning things based on perceptions of innocuous things in a way they are not meant to be seen as by the people who do them.
If you aren’t NUTS you would be able to see that there is a disconnect between what they meant, and what they say they’re trying to mean with no insight whatsoever behind eyes that are paranoid about things NO ONE ELSE SEES IN THEM, anyone worried about ok and pepe, you’re all ILL. One’s a meme shared by far more than the weirdos on the fringes that you attribute as a fringe only activity. One is a hand sign that for all the history I can remember means OK! But even if it was used by the ENTIRE HUMAN RACE for HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF YEARS, a few trolls say it belongs to them, now if you say it, oh no must be a fringe whacko weirdo. You have to be ILL to see the world that way, and you NEED HELP.
If they come after t bagging, that innocuous banter between people that makes victory and defeat all that more meaningful as they think it is HARMFUL… Well again, yet another thing not done in a bad light that they banned.
I love overwatch, politics is garbage, and seeing a rivalry unfold in a professional setting is an important part of the entertainment to me. It’s not like they’re getting up and punching eachother in the head so wtf is the problem?
Stop injecting weirdo views that next to no one holds into things that aren’t harmful.
(and most of that wasn’t at you, just when I get started on the topic I get reminded of all the things I hate - ESPECIALLY when it is something I’m passionate about, I bring my friends and we sit on a couch watching the OWL unfold because we love it, and I’m sick of these people ruining it with external weirdo opinions that don’t match up with reality.)
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Maybe not on the field but my boy you should see the sh*t American football players talk after games on twitter/facebook. Any OW player would get banned with how uptight blizzard are if they said the same stuff lol. And players get into fights all the time during games. It’s all part of the fun.
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Agreed, but others also find seeing GG from the winning team to the losing team as the pinnacle of bad manners and poor sportsmanship.
People shouldn’t take it so seriously, and proposing banning crouching in a game based around shooting people in the face is hilarious.
Overwatch has an actual toxicity problem that should be combated, getting riled up over bagging just detracts from that.
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i fully endorse t bagging and wish more players would do it, i do it in all of my dva games
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Because it’s videogames. Fictional situations with fictional characters during fictional events/fights. In real sports tactical crouching would require real people crouching in other’s real-peoples faces. In esports, it’s digital and fake.
The one flaw of dva… no crouching in mech 
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Some people are unreasonable
It’s up to the people who have the power to make the decision
They are different and you know it lol
you ever used bomb just to get out of mech and tbag someone? i have 
tbagging isnt something to get angry over, unless a noskill or a hard counter does it
Moira tbagging a genji? out of bounds, rein tbagging another rein? valid.
lmfao!! no I’d rather just dance emote xD
even this i’d consider sometimes allowable. If a Genji is hard focusing me all game as ana and then I switch and kill him the next dive, hell yea ima t-bag him xD
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I don’t think anyone’s seriously considering banning it.
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Are you kiddin?
If there is a genji playing into moira and feeding, especially if he comes back multiple times to do it, even MORE especially as a professional, any teabag coming from moira is fully deserved and that genji should be switching right about now. If they don’t swap and keep feeding like that, then I’d hope that genji gets TEAMbagged too.
There is no such thing as an out of bounds t bag.
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There’s a difference between celebrating and directly disrespecting other players, though. In the NFL, you can dance, you can make little gestures, even to a degree in the spite of the opponents. But if you do too much, get in someone’s face, or say something serious, you’ll get flagged, can even get dunked right out of the game.
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I guess you missed the part where I said I don’t care.
I wonder if there is any correlation between people not reading well and thinking tbagging is “cool” or whatever lol
Remember, I don’t care either way.
and you insulted my grammar.
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Who said they were going to do that?
Is this the NFL?
It isn’t . If you t bagged someone in the NFL it would be visibly awful right?
If it’s PIXELS then who cares, adds fire to wanting to beat them and leading to a more competitive match.
Imagine if that offended you.
Imagine what would happen if one of these SUPER EASILY UPSET PEOPLE who think T BAGGING IS OFFENSIVE ever had a REAL event where someone does something ACTUALLY disrespectful to them, I imagine they would have a full blown meltdown. Those people need help, not placation to their fragility.
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Look on ladder I’m all for some tactical crouching. But for the league it probably needs to be penalized. If we actually want to have esports be treated like a real sport than sportsmanship is something they should be prioritizing. Tactical crouching isn’t a form of respect. It may be hysterics but it’s not appropriate for the league.
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i really dont care, forced extremes of professionalism just ruins it, if we dont get to see the personality of the players
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It’s not an extreme. It’s sportsmanship.
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Just explaining the precedent, kid. I honestly don’t care that you’re so upset about this. Like, literally, you’re crying about it while claiming others cry about this very thing. Literally acting like the snowflake you are trying to deride. I don’t care about t-bagging in games, bro; if you want to act like a twelve-year old, go right ahead.
There are legitimate reasons that the OWL may shut it down, though, as is often the case in sports. Or maybe they won’t. The production is an absolute joke and looks like it’s being managed by a bunch of middle schoolers, anyway, so who knows?
You picking this hill to die on says a lot more about you than it does the people you’re railing against, though.
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Why does this matter? Unless someone can provide some evidence of the League having a problem with it, why are we asking them to not ban something that was never on their radar to begin with?
Everyone just trying to increase their post counts? 
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