like the olympics of gaming?
no. it's a sportswashing tournament by Saudi Arabia
what is a sportswashing tournament
essentially saudi arabia thinks if they host a lot of cool events people will forget about the human rights violations
oh.. so this doesnt happen every year??
This tournament happened before, but exclusively in Dota and CS - it was named Riyadh Masters
now they've decided to expand the amount of games and host more tournaments in different disciplines
so basically this aint a worldwide held tournament and saudi just organises this to get positive aura?
exactly
no, this tournament is only being held in Riyadh.
it basically has 0 similarities with Olympics tbh
i think you misread
"aint a worldwide tourney" "saudi organises to get positive aura", but thanks for clarifying
it's the practice of governments, corporations or individuals
they're using sports to improve their reputation, damaged by wrongdoings
that is so gross, and the fact that its not even working is so laughable
yeah, that's why Saudis try to lure teams and viewers in with the huge prizepools.
in 2023 their Dota 2 tournament named Riyadh Masters at the time, had 15M$ prizepool
daddy sheikh really thought money speaks over actions
they dont care riot is owned by china but they care about tournaments in saudi arabia haha
tencent done some wack shit too but at least rito game events arent directly hosted by chinese government
masters shanghai?
that was hosted by riot?
same shit buddy
then why specfically mention shanghai
because its in their country
i dont know really anything about this but i dont think it was hosted by the government correct me if im wrong ofc
how the tournament works exactly? lets say cloud9 will win if they do well in all the games?
each game has its own tournament bro
Mickey mouse tourney
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