On October 13, Evil Geniuses announced that Stephano had been suspended without pay for the remainder of the month following his inappropriate comments. The French player, who was being penalised for joking about molesting an underage girl on BlinG's stream, became subsequently ineligible to participate in all online and offline competitions during the month of October, including the upcoming GD Invitational and DreamHack Open Bucharest 2012 tournaments for which he was previously signed up.
