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    Sports lawyer calls for safe spaces within esports

    Turmoil rocks the industry in the wake of MOBA pro and shoutcaster's revelations
    Sep 30, 2020
    PHOTO: ThePowerCouple on Unsplash, Florian Olivo on Unsplash

    THE fallout from last weekend’s revelations continues to reverberate across esports.

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    Following the public post of professional gamer and shoutcaster Em “Kaisaya” Dangla, the shoutcaster she accused of leaking a private video has decided to take a leave of absence from the industry.

    “I am leaving the Esports Community at the moment,” said Zeus Torquator.

    Torquator added: “To all the people I've hurt, this message is for all the times I should have said something sooner, for all the times I shouldn't have done anything at all, but most importantly, it’s for the times I should have said sorry.” (Tap here to read his full statement.)

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    This week, Dangla also had a message for the various esports organizations that posted messages of solidarity for victims of harassment.

    “I only pray and hope that all the organizations that posted about having no space for abuse, harassment, and other criminal acts mean what they said,” she wrote.

    In the wake of this turmoil, sports lawyer Mickey Ingles stressed the need for safe spaces within the industry.

    “There are these things popping up, and you have to have the legal structures and legal foundations to prop them up and to keep them stable,” he told SPIN Life. “How do you make esports safe for everyone? That’s a huge issue.”

    Ingles, who works in the law firm of Ingles Laurel & Calderon and is a full-time professor at the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law, recounted an incident in the United States when a speaker at a conference said that the nice thing about esports was that it was gender inclusive.

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    “A girl came up and said, no, it’s not gender inclusive. If you’re a girl playing esports, you get all of these weird comments on your Twitch page, you get all of these sexual advances,” continued Ingles.


    The speaker then stressed that it’s up to the game developers and the game owners to start being more active in making the industry a safer space for everyone to join.

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    Because of this incident, Ingles said: “Napaisip ako na parang, yes, girls can play [the sport] kasi nawala na ang physical attributes and all you need is a computer [or device]. But still, there’s that other hurdle, and that’s a legal consideration as well when it comes to esports.”

    Update: We have corrected the article to note that Em Dangla is a shoutcaster and mobile arena battler professional gamer, and not a Mobile Legends pro as we originally stated. Spin.ph regrets the error.

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