€92,000 Rust Twitch Tournament Canceled Early – Winner Calls Loser “Wimps”
A 48-hour Twitch Rivals tournament on Rust promised $100,000 in prize money. Big names like xQc, shroud and DisguisedToast played along. But one Spanish team has complained loudly and often. The tournament was then canceled early. One of the tournament’s winners, xQc, calls the losers “soyboys”.
What is this tournament? Twitch Rivals is a tournament series hosted directly by Twitch. These are mostly tournaments in games that are popular on Twitch but don’t really have their own esports scene. Not only e-athletes play at Twitch Rivals, but also all kinds of variety streamers. The high prize money that can be won at Twitch Rivals is also special.
The latest Rust Twitch Rivals tournament was one of the biggest yet. There was a prize of $100,000, equivalent to just under €92,500. Streamer greats like xQc, shroud and DisguisedToast were at the start.
How should the tournament have gone? For 48 hours, the players should survive and fight in servers specially set up for the tournament in the survival shooter.
The streamers were split into 2 teams: North American streamers captained by DisguisedToast, and Alexby11’s team. He led streamers from Spain and Latin America.
Teams should gather as many resources as possible while building up their bases and supplies. Finally, there should be the ultimate duel, in which both teams try to raid the opponent’s base.
Spanish streamers felt they were treated unfairly and disrespectfully
What happened instead? But it did not get to that. On the second day, the news came that the tournament was cancelled. The teams came to an unanimous agreement that the team around DisguisedToast should be chosen as the winner at an early stage.
Spanish speaking streamers felt disrespected
Why was the tournament cancelled? Already on the first day of the tournament there was a big controversy. Spanish-speaking streamers complained that the competition was unfair and that their region received too little respect. They toyed with the idea of leaving midway through the tournament.
The reason for these complaints was that the Spanish players had a clear disadvantage compared to the streamers from North America due to the time zones. This format is accordingly unfair to the players from Europe. In addition, the team from North America is said to have shown them an “embarrassing lack of respect”.
When xQc heard these complaints, he had clear words for the Spanish streamers:
They could literally log in when they’re at their fittest while we’re all sleeping. They could literally raid our base in the last 3 hours and get $100,000 just like that.
But instead they go on Twitter, howl at the admins, howl at the chat, howl at the stream, and meet up small to give up like wimps. Who the hell raised these suckers? Such softened losers, goodness gracious.
xQc in stream
What exactly led to the cancellation of the tournament and whether the team around Alexby11 actually gave up is not clear. But the organizers of Twitch Rivals also promised changes with the announcement of the cancellation of the tournament:
“We’ve heard the community’s feedback and in the future we’ll be clarifying the rules to avoid confusion, re-evaluating the format, and reconsidering the timing of global events.”
Did you watch Rust’s Twitch Rivals? How did you find the developments? Were the Spanish streamers right, or do you tend to agree with xQc? Let us know in the comments.
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