[2022] Layers after Titans beat the Scarabs

It irks me the wrong way when someone who was super toxic in this sub in the past with a history of removed comments for being rude towards others and making them feel sh*t claims they were banned somewhere bcus someone else was butthurt.

I don't know why the discord mods banned you, but I know that what you claim was a "sarcastic pisstake" was probably just you calling other people names because you disagree with them, if your sub history is anything to go by

Regardless of the history between players here, it, unfortunately, falls on HiRez looking unprofessional if they allow this on their world championships live stream. Obviously, this isn't their fault, but it's just a shame that someone potentially new to the stream would see that happen in what is supposed to be such a big event. There should be some rules in place not to allow things like this while the cameras are rolling.

Lemme just say that I'm not questioning the professionalism of any HiRez employees here. My point is that it's not the same as sports. The thing is, HiRez has complete authority over who appears in their pro games, with only 40 players in total competing at SWC. It's very much different than a large-scale NBA environment where there are insane amounts of players. I won't watch a basketball match and be like "wow there's sure a lot of arguing, NBA really allows toxicity in basketball so I won't play any during my own free time" but a random person seeing Smite for the first time and seeing this clip with the n-th post here on Reddit about how toxicity is bad in Smite WILL say "huh this game seems cool but the people say it's very toxic and this clip sure seems to confirm it"

Today's events are not the fault of anyone at HiRez, but no offense, defending it as if it's normal to have 40 people sh*tting on each other is problematic. They won, yet this was done in full view of the cameras ensuring it gets clipped forever, which isn't very sportsmanship-like behavior if you ask me. This was a product of drama that occurred in the past and it should've been dealt with so that you ideally don't have a high upvote post with a clip of a player sh*t-talking their opponents who just lost at the top of the subreddit in the most important time of the year for Smite.

My point is its bad PR for Smite, no matter who's saying the sh*t in the clip at a time where you don't need any bad PR to attract new players with the new season.

Furthermore, I'd just like to add that this kind of behavior is also looked down upon in sports as well, given how much emphasis is given on sportsmanship-like behavior. If you had someone in football scream "You f*cking suck" at the other team after winning instead of shaking hands, there's a really good chance they would get fined, and the football community definitely wouldn't praise it as a good thing. And you wouldn't see people there defending it as if it's normal because it's not - it's petty and cringe.

There is a big difference in saying something in the middle of a heated sports match, something I literally yesterday saw IRL, and sh*tting on someone who just lost to you in front of the cameras pointed at you.

Yup, doesn't make it right tho, especially after winning against the person. Again, I have yet to see a sports match where a player from a victory team immediately after winning starts sh*tting on the other team instead of the usual handshake sh*t. And certainly have never heard of it being considered acceptable.

sh*ttalking to rile your opponents, sure. sh*ttalking to legit hate on them after they lost to you is low

Agree to disagree then