Proffspilleren Noel Brown får ikke delta i årets utgave av konkurransen Pro Tour. Dette forteller Capcom i en pressemelding. Brown ble filmet mens han antastet en kvinnelig spiller (som du kan se her), og han er derfor utestengt. Capcom vurderer også om han skal få delta i 2016 Championship i Las Vegas senere i år:
"As a result, we are banning Noel Brown from competing in the duration of the 2016 season of the Capcom Pro Tour as a first offense. A second offense will result in a lifetime ban from participating in all future Capcom Pro Tour events. We will use this as a baseline penalty if similar incidents occur in the future"
Brown la ut en kommentar til anklagene på Facebook, men denne ble fjernet igjen. Et utdrag av denne er fortsatt tilgjengelig, og der sier han følgende:
"First and for most, it was not a random isolated thing. We were playing around as you can tell, she clearly laughed in the video after it happened. Of course people will blow things out of proportion and make them seem like they're something they're not which is definitely the case here. I don't understand how someone else calls sexual harassment on someone else's behalf if they're not any of the parties involved. Actually all three (her, her boyfriend and I) of us drank and ate pizza together that night after seeing the screen shot. No one ever wants to hear the truth because controversy is always more entertaining but despite what comes of this I still want the truth to be out there."