I just thought bans we're reserved for things like cheating, account manipulation, etc. Being 20 minutes late and not wanting to play after you lose a set doesn't seem like ban material imo. That's 0-100 real fast.
I don't think so, that it is really fast. There was still points to earn and if he really wanted to make it to the Live event, he would have tried the best he could to get these points, just like the other Players did.
This was not an act of Sportsmanship, Disrespectful to all people who put an effort or other support in this tournament and pretty much an insult to all the people who really want join the Live Event and have not gotten this far.
Since he was avaiable he could have just played the 3 games, take one for the community and put up a good fight against Kimbo to give the people the match they really wanted to see, that had everything in there, rivalry, 2 players who do like to shittalk each other in automatch sometimes, that might not be the best friends.
I get that he was demotivated, but i'm pretty sure VonIvan would have liked to be in the Finals twice and he still played the 3rd place game.
I do like the Schtiwen aka Stuve but this DQ is justified and understandable imo. Competition was not over yet, so compete to the end.