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NickEh30’s unfortunate encounter with a stream sniper was caught live on stream, sparks anti-stream sniping suggestions
Nicholas “NickEh30” Amyoony is an undoubtedly elite content creator that also dabbles in the competitive side of the community. NickEh30 received a string of good fortune after Epic Games collaborated with him to bring the “NickEh30 bundle” - a skin combo that features his favorite skins
In addition to the bundle, Fortnite brought forward the “NickEh30 Cup.” The tournament boasted a $10,000 prize pool and featured the NickEh30’s favorite format, solos
Announcing the Nick Eh 30 Cup in Fortnite right now!!
— Nick Eh 30 (@NickEh30) November 9, 2020
Prize ? $10,000
Date ? November 22nd
Format ? Solos
Register ? https://t.co/aS6gxxD9Px
Thank you @FortniteGame for featuring it in the Compete tab! ???? pic.twitter.com/kwTbJItsF3
The event took place in two stages, open and finals. 99 players joined NickEh30 who automatically qualified for finals. NickEh30 was able to spectate the open stage and was impressed with how stacked an open tournament was
“The high point end-games are stacked for an open qualifier! Hope you guys are liking the format,” he wrote on Twitter
In the finals, Nick scored 42 points in the placement heavy format to get 75th place. In a lobby full of 99 pros, that’s a solid score
The problem arises late into the finals when a stream sniper took advantage of Nick’s public drop spot. The stream sniper was dumb enough to stream the event on his Twitch page where he was well aware of who he was landing on
For context pic.twitter.com/zlynsk23Fz
— Lust (@Lxstfn_) November 23, 2020
It’s quite obvious that the only reason Nick’s stream sniper lands at the shadow lair is because he was at the bottom of the leaderboard and had nothing to lose. He got his 15 minutes of fame, and potentially a lifetime of hate
The community as a whole acknowledges how much of a wholesome character NickEh30 is and agrees how unfortunate of a situation this is
thats actually so sad nick is by far the nicest comp player in the world to streamsnipe him in his own cup while streaming you just deserver to never play a tournament again gonna be honest
— XTRA Reet (@Reetlol) November 23, 2020
The tournament is meant to celebrate all of Nick’s accomplishments - from recently getting signed to Luminosity to huge content creation milestones. Players like these only serve ruin streamer’s broadcasts
Epic Games was swift to take action and temporarily ban the stream sniper
Discount Nickmercs over here only got a 1 day ban, most likely due to the fact that this is his first offense. I personally think these actions should have more severe consequences to deter the behaviour from ever happening again
At the end of the day, harsher action towards stream snipers is the only foolproof way to make it go away. With the finals typically consisting of one single lobby, stream sniping has become exponentially easier
It’s unreasonable to ask Nick or any other streamer to land at random drop spots and set long delays just to not get sniped. Fortnite needs to take more decisive action in order to curb unwanted behaviour once and for all
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