Did Ninja Get Kicked from Fortnite For Leaking TwitchCon Details?

Some details about the upcoming TwitchCon event are already known, like the fact that Ninja will be competing in the Doritos Bowl Tournament for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Blackout Battle Royale mode. But it seems that this won’t be the only appearance of the popular streamer at the event, with details emerging during his recent stream.

During a stream with FaZe Clan’s Dennis “Cloak” Lepore, Ninja may have let slip some details that weren’t supposed to be public just yet, revealing that he’ll be hosting a party at the event along with DJ Dillon Francis. This new information seemed to come at a cost however, with the players apparently kicked from the game shortly after the reveal.

The situation began when Cloak posed a question to Ninja, saying “Someone asked me to ask you ‘what are you doing at TwitchCon with some loser named Dillion Francis?’”, before elaborating that the question had come from Dillon Francis himself. Ninja seemed to try and play it off at first, saying that he wasn’t sure he was able to talk about it just yet, before whispering to Cloak and his chat the news, saying “Why not, dude? There’s gonna be a Twitch party, dude. Dillon Francis and Ninja hosting.”

This is where the weird stuff happens. Right after revealing the news about the party, both Ninja and Cloak were kicked from their game, getting hit with a screen informing them that they have been removed from the match due to internet lag, IP problems, VPN usage, or cheating. “That’s what you get for leaking!” yelled Cloak as the pair got back to the lobby to load up their next match, while Ninja simply sat in silence processing what had happened.

It’s probably not related at all, because what are the odds that someone from Twitch was watching the stream and had time to reach out to Epic Games and have them remove Ninja from the match as a sort of warning. However, the timing of it all is very curious.