Proffspelaren Noel Brown kommer inte att få delta i årets upplaga av tävlingen Pro Tour. Detta meddelar Capocom via ett pressmeddelande. Brown anklagas för att ha trakasserat en kvinnlig tävlande under en tidigare tävling och tillåts därför inte att medverka nu. Dessutom överväger Capcom om han ska få vara med i 2016 Championship som hålls i Las Vegas senare i år. Så här säger Capcom om saken:
"As a result, we are banning Noel Brown from competing in the duration of the 2016 season of the Capcom Pro Tour as a first offense. A second offense will result in a lifetime ban from participating in all future Capcom Pro Tour events. We will use this as a baseline penalty if similar incidents occur in the future"
Så här säger Brown själv på Facebook om anklagelserna:
"First and for most, it was not a random isolated thing. We were playing around as you can tell, she clearly laughed in the video after it happened. Of course people will blow things out of proportion and make them seem like they're something they're not which is definitely the case here. I don't understand how someone else calls sexual harassment on someone else's behalf if they're not any of the parties involved. Actually all three (her, her boyfriend and I) of us drank and ate pizza together that night after seeing the screen shot. No one ever wants to hear the truth because controversy is always more entertaining but despite what comes of this I still want the truth to be out there."