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Bizarre Warzone Gulag glitch is allowing spectators to run onto the battlefield
The Gulag in Warzone serves as a shot at redemption to earn that second life in Caldera, but a new glitch is confusing players are spectators are running onto the battlefield.
Season 1 of the Warzone Pacific era brought a new version of the Gulag to the game. This features two outside lanes and a little house in the middle.
After dying in a game, players are sent here to fight for a shot in a 1v1 environment to earn their redeployment.
While it is already challenging enough to win your Gulag fight, a new glitch is making it even harder as other people are allowed to storm the field.
Warzone Gulag glitch allowing multiple players in arena
In a Reddit post by ‘colemanni’ they post an interesting bug that is allowing non-participants to interfere with the 1v1 fight that’s currently going on in the Gulag.
We have a hooligan in Gulag from CODWarzone
You can see in the video that the player is trying to the enemy when suddenly a bystander starts running on top of the barriers. Just like anyone else, they start firing bullets at this operator and get hit markers, but it ends up getting them killed as that wasn’t the enemy.
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One Redditor said this is a glitch that can be done at any point while in the Gulag. “Apparently you have to hop on the barrel and then crouch on the fence in order to get there.”
Players are concerned as this can lead to a lot of problems while in the Gulag. If it’s as easy as just crouching on a barrel to get into the battlefield then this can be replicated every time.
As shown in the clip, it is very likely that someone will shoot at this spectator and it will then reveal their position to the true enemy. Players are hopeful this is patched as soon as possible.
2 children dead as vehicle plows into spectators at Texas drag racing event
The accident happened at an event called Airport Race Wars 2.
Two children were killed and several other people were seriously injured after a drag racer lost control and plowed into spectators at an event in Texas.
The accident happened at about 3:20 p.m. local time Saturday when a car taking part in a race left the runway and hit multiple parked vehicles and people watching the event, the Kerrville Police Department said.
An 8-year-old boy and 6-year-old boy were killed in the accident, according to police.
The event, called Airport Race Wars 2, was being held at Kerrville-Kerr County Airport, northwest of San Antonio.
In addition to the two deaths, four people were airlifted to nearby medical facilities in Austin or San Antonio, according to the Kerrville police. A 26-year-old man was transported to Austin’s Dell Seaton Medical Center in unknown condition; a 27-year-old woman was transported to San Antonio Medical Center in critical but non-life-threatening condition; and a 46-year-old woman was also taken to San Antonio Medical Center in critical condition, police said.
The 34-year-old man who was driving the drag racer is listed in stable condition at San Antonio Medical Center, police said.
Two other children — a 3-month-old and a 4-year-old — were taken to Peterson Regional Medical Center in Kerrville as a precaution. Two people were also treated at the scene, Kerrville police said.
“Kerrville Police are conducting an investigation into the accident. This investigation is in its early stages and we have no other information to release at this time,” the department said in a statement.
The event, which was for amateur drivers, was put on by Flyin’ Diesel Performance, an auto customization shop in Kerrville. The shop is located adjacent to the municipal airport.
“Yes, there has been an incident at Airport Race Wars,” Ross Dunagan, owner of Flyin’ Diesel Performance, said in a video posted to the store’s Facebook page. “Medical personnel are doing everything they can. They are taking care of the entire scene. … We ask that you please pray for everyone involved.”
ABC News’ Matt Foster contributed to this report.
Hideki Matsuyama: Ball hit by 2021 Masters champion lands in spectator’s shirt
“It went between my legs, hit my knee, and somehow rolled up into my shirt,” the spectator explained on a microphone caught by the PGA Tour at the Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City, New Jersey.
World No. 1 Jon Rahm, who is the reigning US Open champion, sits atop the leaderboard with a one-stroke lead after firing a four-under par 67 in Friday’s second round.
“Believe it or not, hit my fair share of bad shots today,” the 26-year-old Rahm told the PGA Tour website. “Much like yesterday [Thursday], I was able to save a couple of good ones … Coming into the weekend, I’m definitely going to have to clean a couple of those mistakes up.”
Storm Henri
The Northern Trust is the PGA Tour’s first FedEx Cup playoff event.
The FedEx Cup sees player accrue ranking points throughout the season with the top 125 taking part in the first playoff.
The field is whittled down with a final 70 players competing at the Tour Championship in Atlanta in September, where the FedExCup Champion wins $15 million.
The Northern Trust tournament’s final round on Sunday could be rescheduled to Monday due to Storm Henri.
“We are closely monitoring Tropical Storm Henri and its potential impacts on The Northern Trust,” said the PGA TOUR in statement on its website on Friday.
“We will evaluate the track of Henri throughout the day tomorrow [Saturday] and expect to issue the plan and schedule for the final round by late afternoon Saturday.
“Henri is not currently predicted to have any effect on the forecast for Monday. Depending on the forecasted track of the storm, it is possible that the final round may be rescheduled for Monday,” added the statement.
Spectators barred from Tokyo Olympics venues amid Japan’s COVID-19 state of emergency
Fans were barred from the pandemic-postponed Tokyo Olympics which will open in two weeks, following a state of emergency issued on Thursday.
The ban was announced by the International Olympic Committee and Japanese organizers, reducing the games to a made-for-TV event.
Although widely expected, the move marked a sharp turnabout from just weeks earlier, when Olympic organizers said they aimed to hold the games with limited spectators.
“It is regrettable that we are delivering the games in a very limited format, facing the spread of coronavirus infections,” Tokyo 2020 president Seiko Hashimoto said Thursday after talks between government officials, Tokyo organizers and Olympic and Paralympic representatives.
“I am sorry to those who purchased tickets and everyone in local areas.”
Fans from abroad were banned months ago, and the new measures announced by Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will mean venues around Tokyo — indoor and outdoor — will not have any fans at all.
The emergency declaration made for a rude arrival in Japan for IOC president Thomas Bach, who landed in Tokyo on Thursday just hours before the new measures were announced. He was to spend three days in self-isolation at the five-star hotel that lodges IOC members.
Suga said the state of emergency would go into effect Monday and last through Aug. 22. This means the Olympics, opening on July 23 and running through Aug. 8, will be held entirely under emergency measures. The Paralympics open on Aug. 24.
“Taking into consideration the impact of the delta strain, and in order to prevent the resurgence of infections from spreading across the country, we need to step up virus prevention measures,” Suga said.
Suga, who had long favored fans in attendance, hinted at a no-fan Olympics in announcing the state of emergency.
“I have already said I won’t hesitate to have no spectators,” he added.
Just two weeks ago, organizers and the IOC allowed venues to be filled to 50% of capacity, but crowds not to exceed 10,000. The state of emergency has forced a late turnaround, which was always an option if cases rose.
The main focus of the emergency is a request for bars, restaurants and karaoke parlors serving alcohol to close. A ban on serving alcohol is a key step to tone down Olympic-related festivities and keep people from drinking and partying. Tokyo residents are expected to face stay-at-home requests and watch the games on TV from home.
“How to stop people enjoying the Olympics from going out for drinks is a main issue,” health minister Norihisa Tamura said.
The present state of emergency ends Sunday. Tokyo reported 896 new cases on Thursday, up from 673 a week earlier. It’s the 19th straight day that cases have topped the mark set seven days prior. New cases on Wednesday hit 920, the highest total since 1,010 were reported on May 13.
The no-fan atmosphere will include the opening ceremony at the $1.4 billion National Stadium, which is traditionally the most-watched event during the Olympics.
“It’s not too late. Cancel or postpone it,” said Yukio Edano, the head of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, the largest opposition party to Suga’s LDP.
The uptick in infections has also forced the Tokyo city government to pull the Olympic torch relay off capital streets, allowing it to run only on remote islands off the Tokyo coast. It’s unclear how the torch will enter the stadium for the opening ceremony.
“The infections are in their expansion phase and everyone in this country must firmly understand the seriousness of it,” Dr. Shigeru Omi, a top government medical adviser, said.
He urged authorities to quickly take tough measures ahead of the Olympics, with summer vacations approaching.
The Olympics are pushing ahead against most medical advice, partially because the postponement stalled the IOC’s income flow. It gets almost 75% of its income from selling broadcast rights, and estimates suggest it would lose $3 billion to $4 billion if the Olympics were canceled.
About 11,000 Olympians and 4,400 Paralympians are expected to enter Japan, with tens of thousands of officials, judges, administrators, sponsors, broadcasters, and media also entering. The IOC says more than 80% of resident of the Olympic Village will be vaccinated.
Nationwide, Japan has had about 810,000 cases and nearly 14,900 deaths. Only 15% of Japanese are fully vaccinated, still low compared with 47.4% in the United States and almost 50% in Britain.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
Tokyo 2020 Olympics Bars International Spectators
If you were looking forward to traveling to Japan for the Tokyo Olympics this year, you’re going to have to change your plans.
Organizers of the Tokyo 2020 Games — which had already been delayed by one year due to the pandemic — announced Saturday that international spectators will be barred from the Summer Olympics and Paralympics.
Citing the restrictions on international travel, organizers said in a statement there was no guarantee that Japan will be allowing international visitors to enter the country by the summer.
The decision to bar foreign fans was made “to give clarity to ticket holders living overseas and to enable them to adjust their travel plans at this stage,” the statement said.
Japan has barred most foreign entry into the country as part of its COVID-19 restrictions, and only recently lifted a state of emergency in some prefectures.
Tickets purchased by those overseas will be refunded. Organizers said 600,000 tickets were sold outside of Japan.
There had been speculation about whether the committee would allow foreigners at the games in the months leading up to the announcement. Tokyo committee president Seiko Hashimoto also hinted in early March that they would not.
That the games were scheduled to go ahead at all was contentious; a poll by national outlet NHK earlier this year found that a vast majority of Japanese wanted the games to be canceled or postponed again.
“In many ways the Tokyo 2020 Games will be completely different to any previous Games,” Hashimoto said in a statement Saturday. “We are currently working on specific plans to share support remotely from around the world and help bring people together in ways suited to our current times.”
The postponement of the 2020 Olympics last year was the first time in the modern era that the timing of the games was affected by an event other than war.
Organizers said it would still be called the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics.
There has been more than 455,000 COVID-19 cases in Japan to date, and 8,802 deaths. Its vaccine rollout is still in the early stages, with only frontline workers eligible to be vaccinated. As of Saturday, Japan has administered 0.46 doses per 100 people.
Spectators From Overseas Are Barred From Tokyo Olympics
TOKYO — Spectators from overseas will not be allowed to attend the Summer Olympics in Japan, organizers said on Saturday, making a major concession to the realities of Covid-19 even as they forged ahead with plans to hold the world’s largest sporting event.
The Tokyo Games, which begin in July, were originally scheduled for 2020 but were delayed by a year because of the pandemic. The Tokyo organizing committee has been scrambling to develop safety protocols to protect both participants and local residents from the virus. Concern has been running high in Japan, with big majorities saying in polls that the Games should not be held this summer.
The decision, which the Tokyo organizers made jointly with the International Olympic Committee, the International Paralympic Committee and the national and local governments in Japan, had been foreshadowed in the Japanese media for weeks.
Thomas Bach, the president of the I.O.C., has encouraged national organizing committees to secure vaccines for athletes, and he announced this month that China had offered to provide vaccinations for participants who required one ahead of the Games.
But not all local spectators will have the chance to be inoculated before the Olympics open on July 23. In Japan, where the vaccine rollout has been relatively slow, the population will not be close to fully vaccinated by the time the Games start.
The organizing committees will now have the enormous headache of arranging refunds for ticket buyers. In bidding for the Games, the Tokyo organizers said that 7.8 million tickets would be made available. Typically, about 10 to 20 percent of Olympic tickets go to international spectators.
Japanese fans could take up some of the slack. Local demand for tickets far outstripped the supply, at least before the pandemic.
The coronavirus has had a comparatively muted effect on Japan, which has had far fewer cases and deaths than the United States and Western Europe. The country has reported just over 8,700 Covid-19 deaths since the pandemic began.
Japan declared a widespread state of emergency in early January after a rise in infections. Since then, most areas have lifted the declaration. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced this week that it would be ended in Tokyo.
As part of its efforts to stop the spread of new, more infectious variants of Covid-19, Japan has also barred all new entries into the country from abroad since late December.
Those measures, however, have been lifted for Olympic athletes and some of their entourages. That decision has been contentious: Foreign students and workers are still unable to enter the country, and the foreign ministry has not given any clear indications as to when that might change.
Barring foreign spectators is unlikely to allay the public’s concerns about the Games, given that thousands of athletes, coaches, officials and journalists will still come for the event. Nearly 80 percent of the public wants the Olympics postponed or canceled altogether, according to some polls.
Regardless of the opposition, officials plan to officially kick off the countdown to the Games on Thursday with the torch relay, starting in Fukushima. As with the events this summer, the number of spectators will be limited.
International ticket holders will now have to go through the process of seeking refunds. Everen Brown, 60, a photographer in Salt Lake City and a superfan who has attended 15 Olympics, bought about $8,600 in tickets for the Tokyo Games for himself and his nephew.
They were looking forward to seeing beach volleyball, archery, fencing, diving and a men’s basketball game and had tickets for the closing ceremony. According to terms from CoSport, the broker that handled ticket sales for U.S.-based fans, customers will not be repaid for some fees — which Mr. Brown said could cost him about $1,200 — and refunds could take time.
“Since we are being barred, it is only right for them to make everyone whole and refund all of the money paid,” Mr. Brown said before the official announcement was made. What’s more, he said, after waiting a whole year, he wanted his refund quickly. “It would be real painful watching this at home on TV and knowing they have the money, and not knowing when you’re going to get it back.”