January 4, 2019 Further reports on Overwatch Contenders player Ellie suggest that it's not her at the controls.
Overwatch Contenders player Ellie stepped down from her team, Second Wind, after a wave of doxxing threats and harassment doubting her existence - and now multiple sources are reporting that it was indeed not her at the controls. Instead, it seems it was a ladder player called Punisher. Esports consultant Rod Breslau reports that Ellie has sent messages to teammates confirming that she hasn’t been the one playing. She is a 17-year-old girl, but one who is “not good” at Overwatch. Neither players or management at Second Wind knew, and Blizzard is now holding a meeting with them. Aspen, a streamer for Cloud9, says that Punisher confirmed yesterday that he was the player posing as Ellie, in a sort of “social experiment.” Exactly what that experiment was intended to accomplish is unclear - as is whether or not Punisher was the only other player involved in faking Ellie’s account. The only thing that appears to have been accomplished here is encouraging further suspicion if further female players make it to Contenders - though certainly, it seems that teams could stand to have better vetting processes.from PCGamesN http://bit.ly/2TuvyxZ
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