 The following day, Blizzard Entertainment, the developer of "Hearthstone", announced that Blitzchung had been banned from the current tournament, forfeiting any prize money (approximately by that point), and was banned for any further "Grandmasters" tournaments for one year.Blitzchung stated in an interview afterwards that he had done the act of protest because "I put so much effort in that social movement in the past few months, that I sometimes couldn't focus on preparing my "Grandmaster" match".In addition, Blizzard terminated the contracts of the two stream casters who had been conducting the interview, "Virtual" and "Mr. Yee".