Pro Apex Legends Player Xeratricky Banned from Twitch, But Makes New Account

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The professional gamer and streamer, Nelson «Xeratricky» Medina, was banned recently from Twitch. However, the FPS gamer's infraction wasn't the most egregious, since he was banned for creating his Twitch account when he was under the age of 13. According to the terms of service of the world's leading game streaming platform, an account holder needs to be at least 13 years old when creating the account.

With millions of streamers producing content on Twitch, there are going to be abuses of its policies. Often the bans are for a perfectly good reason. However, occasionally Twitch has taken the most extreme measures for minor policy breaches. In recent weeks, the most notable ToS controversies were related to gambling and Twitch's new gambling ban.

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Xeratricky, who plays Apex Legends professionally for Furia Esports, the second-place finishers at ALGS 2022, was banned from the Amazon-owned streaming service out of the blue. While there's no question Xeratricky infringed upon Twitch's terms of service, the punishment was considered harsh and out-of-proportion by many in the community. Much of the criticism towards Twitch has been that there seem to be no halfway solutions. The now-professional gamer had created his Twitch account over 11 years ago, which made the 24-year-old underaged for Twitch at the time.

Instead of slapping the popular streamer on the wrist, or perhaps punishing him with a temporary restriction, Twitch decided to ban Xeratricky's account permanently. This isn't the first time Twitch has enforced the specific ruling on the terms of service. AverageHarry lost his 90,000 follower Twitch account in the same fashion, although the infraction was more recent. According