Two fans ejected from NCAA Tournament after bringing FAFO energy, lose $6K on tickets

Two spectators in Houston were ejected from an NCAA Tournament game for the stupidest reason. Nick “Lacy” Fosco and Kylie “Sketch” Cox decided to spend roughly $6,000 on tickets, but wanted to share their experience with the world. However, NCAA officials had other plans. 

The twitch streamers fired up their livestream and thought it would be a good idea to gain followers in the midst of March Madness. But as many of us know already, the broadcast partners for the NCAA Tournament pay a ton of money to secure the rights and won't allow those in the stands to infringe on any copyrighted content, including the Iowa and Illinois game. 

Fosco and Cox had a brief exchange with officials, who promptly booted them from the arena after they admitted to not only streaming the game at that current time, but ones previously. To make matters worse, the two internet stars were sitting courtside at the Toyota Center with an unobstructed view. 

There is a reason why the "This broadcast is copyrighted by the NCAA" message serves as a legal notice asserting ownership over the video, audio, and images of NCAA tournament games. It prohibits unauthorized rebroadcast, reproduction, or commercial use, including for promotions or betting, which the NCAA actively polices to protect its licensing partnerships. 

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Fosco later said on a livestream outside the arena that the audience had grown past the one at the venue itself. Regardless of numbers, it's not a good look in a true FAFO moment. 

Lacy believes the NCAA kicked him out of the Iowa March Madness basketball game because he had 30,000 viewers on Twitch which was more than the attendance at the stadium 😭pic.twitter.com/erQOdyLo4a

CBS and Turner paid over $1 billion dollars for exclusive NCAA Tournament broadcast rights. There's a price to keep bad actors away and it costs them a lot of money and 15 minutes of fame. 

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