i wonder if the banner will still reflect that NA won in general, so that people who supported Jackpot for the sake of like, yknow, hometown pride, still get some sort of prize since NA did win, without having to be supportive of the specific team
i do feel a bit bad for the members of jackpot that did relatively very little to warrant the ban (especially given that the tweet itself acknowledges that it's addressing "certain members of Jackpot"). the banner being gone is totally fair play, but to have no tangible reward for winning does suck a bit since it was still an impressive feat. i feel like they could've still gotten the trophies cuz it doesn't do any harm for them to just collect dust on a shelf and like, surely the trophies were already in production; i feel like removing any official connections to the members and banning them from participating in future events is enough. ultimately not much reason for me to care about that end of it though, and i can get that it's setting a precedent that future world champs teams better be nice if they want to be recognized for it
regardless of what they do with the banner, it will be very cool to have a version of it that people can use without coming across like they're supporting racists! obviously i don't really assume that that's what people who used the banner were intending to do before, but like, there must have been some people using it as a dogwhistle, so it's a very welcome change. i'm very very surprised nintendo is doing anything about it, i truly thought they'd just ignore it since it all happened in unofficial environments. in all honesty i think the fact that they're undoing what they've done for Jackpot is an indication that they are interested in continuing to do this kind of thing, because i feel that they would have just tried to move swiftly on otherwise. like i said, this seems to be done partially to set the standard for how they handle this, and there would be no reason to set that standard if they planned on just dropping it forever. hopes are high that we can get new, better champs in the game someday