Right from the information that he will bring League of Legends into the tournament, Esports World Cup held in Saudi Arabia has received much attention. Especially after they announced the participating teams with famous names such as T1, Gen.G, BLG, TES … Therefore, LoL audience could not help but expect to be eye -catching matches among top teams.
EWC 2024 is considered MSI 2.0 with the presence of very popular teams
However, just a few days before the tournament took place, EWC 2024 was “peeled off” by a former World World King of Worlds because it was too “stingy”. Specifically, Jackkeylove recently had a livestream and revealed that his team (TES) was only sponsored by regular flight tickets when attending EWC 2024.
“Do you know, EWC only sponsors us airline tickets. After that, TES has to spend money to upgrade to the business ticket for members of the team. I believe that other teams also encounter this problem but they do not speak up” – JacKeylove shared on live waves directly with quite urgent attitude.
Jackkeylove was quite annoyed when his team had to spend money to upgrade the ticket to the business class when attending EWC 2024: “You know, the EWC only sponsors us airline tickets.
In recent years, Esports tournaments held in Saudi Arabia are famous for being extremely invested. Even EWC 2024 was advertised by the BTC as “the largest eSports tournament in history” with the total prize for all subjects up to 45 million USD (about 1.1 trillion VND). Even the previous tournaments belonging to the Gamers8 system, they appear with extremely “lavish” images, serving gamers “teeth”.
The previous eSports tournaments held in Saudi Arab always appeared with modern stage, eye -catching design with extremely monumental stage
Perhaps for this reason, Jackkeylove was annoyed when his team was only sponsored for normal flight tickets. It should be known that right from the announcement of the EWC 2024 schedule, League of Legends was suspected of being the “stepchild” of the tournament. The reason comes from the time of the competition of League of Legends here only encapsulated for 1 week. While the game is considered the “counterweight” of League of Legends – Dota 2 has a schedule lasting up to 3 weeks. Combined with sharing from Jackkeylove, the above doubt is more grounded.
The sharing from Jackkeylove has raised doubts about League of Legends just a “stepchild” at EWC 2024
Naturally, EWC 2024 is a tournament with many subjects held with huge number of players from around the world attending. Perhaps for that reason, the new BTC decided to sponsor the regular flight tickets to reduce the cost burden. However, when compared to the “lavish” images used by the BTC tournament to advertise, this move (if any) proved quite confusing for both the audience and the player.
EWC 2024 communications and advertising products all appear with the image of luxury hotel, yacht … so the cost of cutting costs (if any) from this tournament organizers is really difficult to understand
It can be said that in recent times, the EWC 2024 tournament has been entangled many scandals on the sidelines in League of Legends. Hopefully, with the participation of top names, the quality of matches at EWC 2024 will be able to erase the unnecessary troubles.