UK Apex Legends streamer ShivFPS banned on Twitch after retaliating to hacker
Dom Sacco, Senior Editor
Last Updated: 21/06/2025
UK Apex Legends streamer Shivam ‘ShivFPS’ Patel has received a temporary ban from livestreaming platform Twitch.
The player, who streams for Luminosity Gaming, received a seven-day Twitch ban after retaliating to a player known as Tufi, who has been accused of streamsniping, hacking and harassment, including racism.
Shiv explained the situation in the following tweet, saying that the hacker was streamsniping him and bugging the community, which caused him to rage in-game after killing Tufi:
I was pushed to edge for days on end, by a Streamsniping hack user who was focusing me, locking me out of my account so i could not play the game, Annoying the entire @PlayApex community. Prior to this i killed him in a game and this is how i reacted. Still from Twitches end I… https://t.co/txyeLNJxlj
— ShivFPS (@ShivFPS) April 26, 2021
Shiv added: “I still don’t know the exact cause [for my ban], because they said the vod/clips that caused the suspension were deleted, by whom I don’t know. I just assumed it was from this being spam reported by probably the hacker/cheater himself, who later probably deleted the clips himself. Sadge.
“And may I add and let it be known Twitch, I believe the person who was targeting and harassing me should be in jail. A few words wouldn’t mean shit to the justice that should actually be done about this whole situation, period.”
Shiv told Esports News UK he would like to appeal the ban, which he first revealed he had received back on April 22nd.
He also went on to share some abuse he’s apparently received from Tufi, including a string of harmful and racist comments:
Just some of the dogshit harassment + racism from said hack user while being in game on the same team as him. this occuring just after being locked out of my account by the harraser. I say 1% of this and suddenly i'm the one getting suspended. what a backwards ass situation. pic.twitter.com/WKXwLQwkOD
— ShivFPS (@ShivFPS) April 26, 2021
Shiv has taken part in a number of Apex Legends tournaments since the FPS game was launched in 2019 by Respawn Entertainment and EA. He currently has 122,000 followers on Twitter and almost 200,000 subscribers on YouTube.
Esports News UK has contacted EA and Twitch for comment and will update this article if we hear back from them.
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Dom Sacco, Senior Editor
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He has almost two decades of experience in journalism, and left Esports News UK in June 2025. As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late '80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He also previously worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation.
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