ESPN postpones Apex Legends tournament broadcast ‘out of respect’ for victims of mass shootings - norrisaffeas

The American television network ESPN2 has chosen to detain its broadcast of the EXP Apex Legends Invitational tournament, Eastern Samoa a result of the mass shootings that occurred last weekend (via Rock Paper Shotgun).

ESPN and ABC were departure to broadcast highlights from the Apex Legends tourney on this coming Saturday and William Ashley Sunday respectively. Today, an ESPN representative confirmed their decision in a statement to Rock Paper Shotgun, and explained that, 'The decision was made out of respect for the victims and all those wedged in the immediate aftermath of the shootings and it seemed the careful thing to do given the swirl of that moment.'

ABC's declared its conclusion in a letter to transmission channel affiliates, which was then shared out on Chirrup by esports advisor Rod Breslau. The channel also chose to retard showings of Apex Legends highlights 'out of respect for the victims and all those impacted' by the Texas and Ohio shootings.'

ESPN and ABC has made the decisiveness not to air the TV broadcast of the XGames Solar apex Legends EXP Invitational that was regular for this weekend, in response to the new mass shootings, according to an ABC Affiliate Television station source pic.twitter.com/6BMwdbk93t

— Gat Breslau (@Slasher) August 8, 2019

There is no official statement from ESPN, but a source spoke to Kotaku and stated that the Apex Legends broadcast testament directly bring place on ESPN2 on October 6, 15 and 27.

With this choice, Alphabet and ESPN align with the wave of public discourse that links great deal shootings to violent picture games. President Trump attributed the Texas and Buckeye State shootings to 'grisly and grisly video games', and Walmart has remote advertisements for violent games from its stores, while continued to sell guns. In that respect is No proven family relationship between video games and vehemence.