Basically, a woman claiming to be a player's girlfriend and accused a bunch of male esports fans at the Blizzard arena of harassing her. Blizz security steps in and removes the harassers. A witness speaks and turns out she's not even the girlfriend and there was no harassment..... just WOW.

First of all, I didn't know any of the other people who were escorted out, I'm in LA for two weeks as part of my internship and I went to the game alone. I sat beside a group of guys who knew each other and clearly went to the game together.

What happened to cause all the drama? Honestly, not much at all as far as I could tell? The guys beside me weren't all that loud or belligerent. They just acted like normal sports fans, cheering against the Outlaws when they lost a fight, etc. I didn't even hear any swearing, the worst was stuff like "YOU SUCK!".

The "slut" stuff I'm 100% sure never happened. There was no interaction between the two rows of people as far as I could tell. Nobody was turning around or anything, until a random girl (blonde, kind of heavyset), turned around and started yelling at the group of guys to apologize for harassing (her?/the team?). I looked up a picture of Linkzr's fiance and this girl definitely wasn't her, I honestly don't remember Linkzr's fiance being there at all or being involved in any way. The guys didn't really argue back, just said something like "we didn't say that" a few times, then ignored her while she continued saying someone called her a slut, and also called them out for being racist, which was completely out of left field.

After a few minutes, the girl turned around and everything went back to normal, the girls were still yelling about the game but the guys mostly stopped, I thought it was all done and over, but after the game ended a group of Blizzard employees came and told most of the row we had to switch seats or leave and contact Blizzard for a refund. I think they just assumed I was part of the group, wouldn't hear me out, and I ended up just leaving because there were no decent seats left and I was kind of jarred and angry at this point.

I'm not mad at the Blizzard employees because it was honestly a shitshow and I'm sure they had no idea how to sort things out, it was a "he said she said" battle royale, and they were probably scared of a fight breaking out or something.

It just annoyed me to see people like the Outlaws' manager calling fans "animals" for no reason at all, not sure why a complete lie is being taken as the truth.

I'll be back in the morning to answer any questions, if any Reddit admins want proof they can message me or something.

Edit: Holy fuck I actually read every comment in this thread, replied to PMs, etc. I expected like 50 upvotes maximum to be honest. Kind of pressed for time, but just to answer some common stuff: I have a good idea of who the false accuser is based on Twitter stuff, but I'm not going to name and shame them. I don't want this drama to potentially affect my personal life or career, so I cannot provide proof, this thread can be deleted if necessary. However, I take issue with the fact that the Outlaws manager is able to refer to fans as animals with zero proof and be highly upvoted.

Yes, it's entirely possible that one of the guys whispered something offensive to one of the girls or something, my bad for creating a misunderstanding. My 100% comment was referring to the idea that sexist and racist stuff was being shouted out in the open by a "conga line of animals", which absolutely did not happen. I was only addressing the one Twitter thread involving the Outlaws manager, there were more Twitter posts by other people which changed/clarified the story to one of the girls heard one of the guys whispering slut under his breath? Which seems like a piss poor excuse to kick out an entire row of fans, I'm pretty certain that the arena staff must've received an exaggerated version of events to say the least.

No, I'm not that salty anymore, thanks for the sympathy though. I honestly don't care at all after sleeping on it. People are urging me to try to get these liars banned from the arena, demand additional compensation from Blizzard, etc. I'm sorry but I just don't give enough of a shit to do any of that. Have a nice day, I just hope people can be less spiteful in the future.