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Swiss esports event canceled after 3 squads pull out over host team founder's anti-abortion comment
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Swiss esports event canceled after 3 squads pull out over host team founder's anti-abortion comment
Associated Press Finance
Mon, November 18, 2024 at 7:03 AM EST • 2 min read
GENEVA (AP) — An event billed as Switzerland's biggest esports competition has been canceled after the host team's founder posted an anti-abortion comment on social media, triggering outrage that led three rival squads to pull out.
The “Take the Throne” event, involving a video game that features cars that score goals with a ball like in soccer, was to take place Nov. 23 at the Batiment des Forces Motrices venue in downtown Geneva.
The uproar erupted after BDS team founder Patrice Bailo de Spoelberch — the initials of his surname form the team's name — posted on social media Wednesday that “A woman who dares to use abortion should lose the right to ever have children.” ... The post has since been taken down from his feed on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, but several critics of the comment relayed a screenshot of it.
The next day, three rival teams among the eight invited to participate — Gentle Mates, Karmine Corp. and Team Vitality — issued a joint statement saying they were pulling out. ... They condemned the “disrespectful and controversial” comment and said they "can in no way accept associating our clubs and our values with such speech.”
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Swiss esports event canceled after 3 squads pull out over host team founder's anti-abortion comment
Associated Press Finance
Mon, November 18, 2024 at 7:03 AM EST • 2 min read
GENEVA (AP) — An event billed as Switzerland's biggest esports competition has been canceled after the host team's founder posted an anti-abortion comment on social media, triggering outrage that led three rival squads to pull out.
The “Take the Throne” event, involving a video game that features cars that score goals with a ball like in soccer, was to take place Nov. 23 at the Batiment des Forces Motrices venue in downtown Geneva.
The uproar erupted after BDS team founder Patrice Bailo de Spoelberch — the initials of his surname form the team's name — posted on social media Wednesday that “A woman who dares to use abortion should lose the right to ever have children.” ... The post has since been taken down from his feed on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, but several critics of the comment relayed a screenshot of it.
The next day, three rival teams among the eight invited to participate — Gentle Mates, Karmine Corp. and Team Vitality — issued a joint statement saying they were pulling out. ... They condemned the “disrespectful and controversial” comment and said they "can in no way accept associating our clubs and our values with such speech.”
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