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EWC partnership

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#1
Denjisideals

So EWC recently released a list of partnered orgs (here is a link from Fnatic's twitter showing all the teams partnered with the organisation) and people are freaking out over it, which I get. You don't want your org to support something that seems morally wrong to you. It's a very human thing to think of. But let's be real here for a second. Your favourite orgs are not "The Good ones". They are business owners. Your favourite org is just a team to you, it's their whole life, the way they make money, their passion.
"But Denji, are you normalising what Saudi do? You piece of shit!!!"
I am not. And I don't want to talk about it since I don't have the qualifications or ample research to speak on such things and I don't want to spread misinformation. I am just trying to speak from their pov. It's easy to dog on someone for going against your ideals but it's really important you step in their shoes.

Most esports orgs make thousands of dollars losses each year. This tournament prize money is huge (500k for winners in LoL last year) and playing and winning this tournament can be a huge shift in their yearly turnover. In an industry where you barely see any profit whole year, I don't expect anyone to stop or not participate in it because of morals.

At the end of the day, it's Morals vs Money, Morals vs Survival and morals don't pay the salary of your players. Ideally wouldn't have to choose between these but here we are. This isn't an ideal world.

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Nef0r0
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Football is owned by oligarchs, f1 is owned by oil companies and huge car brands, boxing is owned by scummy promotions, esports is owned by sheikhs. Simple as.

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Cryptic88
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money makes the world go round

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FiredSkull
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My fellow friend I was not familiar with your game

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SleepingSnorlax
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I feel like those who talk about EWC like it’s is morally wrong and that stuffs are quite privileged to talk about that but in reality end of the day it’s a business greed will be there to make profits no one can stop them the only thing you can do is protest other than that nothing else

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Denjisideals
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I mean you can always not watch it even though I know it's a stupid solution
Think of it like this
You own a bakery
You are in big loss every year when a notorious mafia comes in and decides to fund you with money in return for making bread for him which he will give for free to the poor as a pr move to cure his reputation
Will you really say no to the money

#6
jazzb
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yeah it is business at the end of the day, you can't do anything about it, all we can do is be morally correct ourselves

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cohnr
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We're thrilled to announce

#8
Denjisideals
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What do you want them to say lmao
"You know we need the money. We are disheartened to announce that we will be taking part in EWC" 💀

#10
cohnr
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they're announcing something very, very few fans are happy about, why should they add "We're thrilled to announce" rather than just "we're a @EWC_EN Foundation Club Partner once again in 2025"

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Denjisideals
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It's formalities. When you are partners with a certain org, you have to say these things even if it is purely for the show.

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cohnr
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yeah I get that and I can understand the money is absurd and hard to turn down, just don't like the way it is worded

#9
Nef0r0
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Cuz being a ewc partner obliges you to advertize this event as much as you can? want to see if it's real? See how many esports world cup tweets pop up during the ewc season beginning, talking about how great riyadh is :)

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cohnr
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yeah that is very true, same with the football clubs there

#11
Aquemini
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I really dont care. between the saudis and the media owned monoply that #them have is the same shit honestly

#17
needAwin
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unrelated but i got to know that the mongolz have a val team from your flair lol

#18
Liwus
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They did some fumbles last year, like not signing up to a tournament on time or something like that, and they had a pretty good team

#24
Aquemini
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They fucking cucked my boy conszz so im a hater now but i havent changed my flair yet cuz senzu is my goat

#19
_Nonsense
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Yeah
As if the western media dunking on saudi EWC are totally the good guys

#22
Aquemini
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Henry Kissinger and the #them group were direct responsables for killings on multiple latin americans countries but im supposed to hate saudis smh.

#13
Warlordwibz
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so... does EWC need like 50 years of positive transformation to get people see them in different way? Or does anything they do is just seen negative and kept remain frowned upon?

#21
Effluxi
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got removed but you know full well what the actual answer is

#23
Warlordwibz
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people won't be around/care when positive changes are made. Only stick around to hate.

#25
Effluxi
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there won't be change unless a more moral but equally rich sponsor replaces them. That or a regime change but that's not happening.

#16
elayaCL
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if people investigate about anything they consume or do and what's the impact, they will be surprised A LOT about morals.

#26
eLxR
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In the end only money matters bro

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