Counter-Strike 2 pro handed ten-year ban for punching opponent on stage

There's always one person who takes trash talk too far. There's always someone ragequitting because they get (rightfully) knocked for hurling racist, sexist, or other-ist abuse down voice chat in even the most benign online games. I grew up in Modern Warfare 2 lobbies, where I saw the worst of humanity coalesce into an amorphous blob of abuse and expletives. But there's an element of safety behind a screen; safety which was breached at the DACH CS Masters Counter-Strike 2 tournament this weekend, where one player sucker punched another live on stage after some mild trash talk.