I've gotten to the point where I see 0 value in social media (as should be evident from my lack of interaction) and am deactivating all of my accounts in a week. If you're a friend or someone that wants to stay in contact, DM me so we can add each other on discord.

If you were defending the guy before, westjett agreeing this crosses the line should be an indicator that you're on the wrong side.

If you're curious why you've had to block more ex-players recently, its quite simple. Esports is filled with soft ego'd, fragile men, who aren't/weren't good enough to go pro and refuse to accept that reality. Unsurprisingly, the scapegoat theories of men like Andrew Tate and his mouthpieces, have convinced them that all of their problems are not a result of their own actions but the faults of things like failed governmental systems, the modern feminist movement or even a shadowy cabal of elites pulling the worlds strings that he commonly references with claims about "the matrix." To compliment the idea that nothing is your fault, they dangle fame and riches, the one thing many young impressionable adults are seeking, and make it seem as though it is attainable if you just follow in their footsteps. This combination has proven incredibly effective and I've personally seen a lot of people I formerly respected, diving into the deep end hard. What they don't realize, is the deep end is actually pretty damn shallow and they're all about to hit the bottom face first. The methods being utilized are not new and history has given us many examples how they can be used to rise to power and it never ends well. The fact that some of these men have paid subscription fees to Tate's Hustler Academy at $50/mo is definitely a new twist in the methodology. Regardless of the why and how, if you're one of the people who praises a man currently awaiting trial for sex crimes claiming its all made up because they didn't share the evidence for you on twitter, please block me. I don't want anything to do with you or your ilk.

Oh baby its happening!!! A professional CS:GO player leaked screenshots from a private play test of the Counter-Strike 2 alpha and it is absolutely gorgeous.

"No franchising for you" Bro.... @koalanoob has 0 chill

Talking trash to Valorant pros because you do aim trainers is like talking trash to NFL quarterbacks because you have the high score in this at your arcade.

We're happy to announce we've completed the signing of @ChaosEC's CS:GO Roster! They'll be joining @kassad and @HenryGcsgo in this new chapter in Cloud 9's history. We look forward to our future together #c9win 📰Read more: bit.ly/2GDJB3f

skimboarding a massive shore break, what could possibly go wrong.

"Pro players don't spend enough time steaming and making content for their orgs." 🙃🙃🙃🙃

A story in 2 parts.

. @SideshowGaming cosplaying as a 1997 honda civic #VCT

. @ESIC_Official coming into today like

I get why some may be upset that he didn't sign more established GC players but it's his org and he can do as he wishes. He owes noone anything. It's also sad that GC is about inclusion and acceptance and we're saying this group doesn't belong because they're content creators.

I've gotten my hands on a leaked recording of the @mibr meeting where Fallen & Co find out about the upcoming roster changes. Wild......

ESIC has concluded its investigation and announces sanctions against 23 individuals for Matchfixing in ESEA's Mountain Dew League over the last 4 seasons. Read more: bit.ly/MDL-Matchfixing

Vyaylyn.

I used to think CS was like chess and valorant was like checkers but I've come to realize the truth: Siege is chess, CS is checkers and Valorant is hungry hungry hippos.

Players grande and xype have been banned on @ESEA for 2 years for directly benefitting from their time playing with convicted cheaters on Ex-ESEA Advanced team ScotchTape. Further action against other members of scotchtape are pending.

BR fans and Gaules.... Do you realize that if this continues, TOs could take away access to servers so he/you can't cast? That Twitch & Twitter could suspend/ban accounts for harassment? That BR events will become less likely over the threats teams and players receive?

HE'S WEARING THEM!!!!!!!!! @Vanityxz

From what I've been told, this is just the beginning. There are several orgs on the brink of bankruptcy and some of the names would surprise you. Running on borrowed money was always going to end this way.

Recently I was asked what makes casting Valorant challenging by another caster and while my initial response was about the pacing of the game and finding ways to work with a color caster to inject analysis in the small respites of action, I feel its something else (a thread)

I'll sign you to my team. Cons: 0 salary not franchised not in challengers no sponsors you're the only player. Pros: home made soft pretzels. DMs are open.

While I'm always humbled that @riotgames wants me to host #VCT, this one is extra special for me. Friday will be my last day @nerdstreet as I step away to purse my passion for desk work and this event will be my first as a full time freelancer!! I am so excited for the future!!!

Anyone else sit down at their PC with the intention of playing games but just never launch them? I've had this weird block recently where I just can't will myself into launching games. Its not just esports titles either. I will launch games and even close them immediately.

Even after adding more seats, #ESLImpact is standing room only for the series between @CLGRed and @FURIA . Love seeing this level of support for the female scene.

I am so close to winning esports bingo!

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For the record, I know he continues to call her horrible things in the replies and is far from a beacon of positivity for the community. That said, his replies just further my initial sentiment. Even someone as controversial as him, believes this crosses the line.

A haiku for EU Valorant fans. NA is better Did you think that you would win? 12 rounds isn't 13 #VCT

A story in 2 parts. The meme played.

Name another LAN that feeds the players, provides 500FPS PC's, 240hz monitors and does it all for the love of the community..... I'll wait.

Effective immediately I will no longer act as Broadcast Operations Manager at Nerd Street Gamers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Because I'm now the Director of Broadcast Operations for @nerdstgamers. widepeepoHappy in the chat.

Transphobia has no place in esports. Kindly GTFO with that.

A mistake.

This is nice, but @zombs has a lot of catch up work to do. Here's @Subroza just before the Upper Finals in @TSM vs @Sentinels

When working at ESEA,I regularly defended @Dychacs to other EU rank S players that thought he cheated. Now he's going to the major with @ENCE while many of the players who complained have moved on to other games or quit completely. Congrats dude, much deserved.

Tomorrow a new journey begins! Excited to announce that I am joining the amazing @BLASTEsports team!! I'll be focusing on Regional League Operations and Global Talent Management for Rainbow 6. Incredibly excited to get started!

I hope that when my time is up, I will have a friend as good as Parker to tell you stories and help carry on my legacy. For those who are hurting, Ive sadly been here before too many times and would love to offer any support I can. My DMs are open, dont hesitate to reach out ❤️

Where are all my esports doctors at?

A few people reached out to me to ask if I was okay after this. While I typically don't share much about my personal life, the truth is I'm not. Prepare for a long venting tweet as I need some love and support from the homies. ❤️ It's been a really tough few months. The offseason has been brutal and coupled with numerous financial setbacks IRL. A few months back, we discovered our house had significant water damage that the previous owner failed to disclose (they knew as they replaced a door on the wall for rotten trim and there is no way they wouldn't have discovered it.) We're talking thousands of dollars in damages as the entire rear wall of my home is rotten. 2x4s and plywood crumble in my fingers like wet cardboard. The day we found it, I wanted to throw up. This is the point where most, including myself, would assume that homeowners insurance would cover this damage. Shockingly, no insurance company on the planet covers damage like this. Sick. Luckily, they gave us some money to cover the mold damage which will help offset the costs. On the career front, I've had limited work for months and the search for full-time employment has been a roller coaster. A few opportunities have seemed so promising and at one point I thought I'd have a job offer any day. I even had a shot at a dream job and everything looked so good. I was never so excited about a job. Sadly, that opportunity like many others fell through. As the job market now saturates with more and more unemployed talented people due to layoffs, it's only going to get worse. All of this is exceptionally demoralizing and has me doubting myself more than ever. After 10 years of busting my ass in esports, I'm wondering if I'll have to leave the industry and focus my efforts elsewhere. Hopefully, that won't be the case as I've still got lots left in the tank, tons of ideas I want to bring to life, and have my eye on a few promising opportunities. Wish me luck.❤️

Sean is an exceptional talent and one that is difficult for others to match due to his professional pedigree on stage and on camera. However, I think casters are unfairly dragged by the community due to a misunderstanding of broadcast principles. Let's dive into them. 🧵 It is true that there are many casters in esports that do not have a professional playing experience backing them up. This isn’t an uncommon trend, as it's been the case in professional sports broadcasting for decades. Legendary broadcasters like Jack Buck, Al Michaels and Vin Scully did not play the sports they broadcasted yet still dominated their field with respect as they were cadential and articulate in all the right ways. The inverse can also be true. Not all professional players are great broadcasters. I have personally casted with players who came in with confidence but left feeling deflated as they realized just how hard it can be. It's easy to forget when watching at home that casting is improvisational. You are hearing direct output from our brains as we react to what happens live. Unlike traditional sports, esports rarely has information being fed to the talent from statisticians and production assistants to add depth to the show. This is not to say that every caster is an expert or weak player nor that every player is a weak caster. Merely that one strength does not directly connect to the other. This is a skill that requires practice and it's likely that even the greatest broadcasters of all time will look back at early tape and recordings and cringe at themselves. Much like practicing in game, we can build bad habits on broadcast that require additional practice to break, such as crutch phrasing (time and time again!) Even when one has mastered the skills of broadcast and is well versed in the subject material, it is not uncommon for talent to lack respect from the audience due to their lack of playing career backing them up. I personally experienced a moment earlier in my career, where I was eviscerated by the audience because I was “a dumbass caster” thanks to an opinion I shared on broadcast. Not even 2 weeks later, a former pro player shared the same opinion on a broadcast, resulting in a reddit thread with the clip alongside praise from the community for their knowledge and insight. You could argue this is just sycophantic confirmation bias but the point remains, casters without a professional playing career have a hard time gaining respect regardless of how informed or educated they are on the subject matter. In the event that you do find the knowledgeable respected caster and the articulate player paired with one another, it's exceptionally important to recognize the nuance of broadcast. A proper broadcast requires balance. Too much commentary and it loses emotion, too little and it becomes boring. Learning when and how to let the game breath is important. This is part of the cadence that is learned in broadcasting and is similar to learning how to master volume and rasp during moments of high intensity. If you’re consistently raising your output, moments that require hype feel flat just like if you didn’t raise your output at all. You also need balance between play by play and color. Too much play by play sounds like dictation while too much color can drown out the play and it loses the excitement. All of these rules are important to follow and the latter ones are exceptionally difficult in Valorant. Why? Unlike other tactical FPS titles, Valorant operates at a high rate of play. Siege and CS:GO are great tac FPS games that allow significantly larger windows for the game to breathe. These moments create opportunities for a knowledgeable color commentator to inject their thoughts on the match. Valorant does not have many of these moments. Due to the games pace, color commentary is often brief or even cut short as play will pick up and require the play by play to take over. Why does the play by play caster take over? For the same reason you sometimes see a 3rd person perspective for a site take/retake. A lot can happen all at once in Valorant and it takes not only a trained eye to properly see what’s happening but a lot of verbal discipline to determine what to accentuate and what to ignore when so much is happening simultaneously. It's easy to get lost in the sauce on a multi-ult execute, missing on potentially important pieces of information that are hiding in plain sight. These general rules and principles however, do not apply to watch parties. Watch parties are able to color outside of the lines in a lower pressure environment because the audience came to see them first and the game second. Talking over the game, spending more time breaking down the play, even rewinding the youtube feed to see something again, all of this is acceptable behavior that cannot occur during the live show. Ultimately, I understand the desire to watch someone like Sean (or Sliggy in my case, shout out slug club) who is incredibly talented in both environments (and missed on broadcast by all of us) but I think it's unfair to compare it to a traditional broadcast because it isn’t one. If any caster emulated the style of watch parties, not only would it make it difficult for the co-caster to operate in tandem with them, the larger audience would find it off putting as they didn’t come to see a watch party, they came to watch the official broadcast. Is there an argument that there is room to emulate watch parties a bit more on official broadcasts? Absolutely. I’ve advocated for this in the past and loved when Riot brought platchat along for an in-house watch party/side-stage content but making a watch party style show the primary broadcast would cause it to lose most of the reason why you’re watching it to begin with.

"You were mentioned on ESL broadcast by the way?"

If @Vanityxz isn't wearing cat ears on stage I will be very disappointed.

What Is Happening @mleQT_ with the insane 1v4 ace clutch to force overtime. If you're not watching, you're missing out. Twitch . tv / valorant_americas

2 down, 1 to go. #VCT

Woke up to this note from my 7 year old daughter after she overheard us talking about money. What a sweetheart. I think we've done a pretty good job.

I don't care for fortnite. I think the game sucks and epic throws money at it to keep it alive. However, I can't hate on a young kid winning life changing money playing a game he loves. Hopefully someone helps him manage that money and he doesn't get child actor treatment.

It is with a both sadness and excitement that I announce I'll be leaving the @ESEA team in 2 weeks for a new opportunity in the esports world. The last 12 seasons working with ESEA as a contractor and then transitioning to a full time employee have been amazing.

Am I the only one looking forward to @RLewisReports's no majors club more than the actual major itself?

The feeeeels 🥹🥹🥹 So proud of you dude. All you've accomplished and the passion you've poured into your craft..... This is just the beginning.❤️

I don't post much about my personal life here but today my wife debuted her exhibit for her BFA in photography and I am so proud of her. The work illustrates her personal and difficult journey as a woman diagnosed with autism at 36 years old and what life is like with ASD.

I'd love to hear how you think I went too far or how it comes across that I insinuated that young people have it easy.

"Hemp is the most versatile material on earth."

I normally wouldnt share something like this but... Read: tl.gd/n_1sqksmu

They meant roll issues. He liked sourdough but Cloud9 offices only have whole wheat.

So Jeff Goldblum is here.

Found @SideshowGaming's car at a traffic light.

How is a man that ran a pornographic webcam streaming business, who is currently in custody for charges of human trafficking, rape and organized crime, who has said that rape victims should "bare responsibility" for their attacks, going to speak on the degeneracy of society?

Apparently @Subroza also plays Quake......

Had a great interaction with these guys tonight in @PlayVALORANT. Apparently they played in the week 1 of @GloryInValhalla under the name Orgless. Seem like a great group of guys wouldn't you agree @riotgames ? For anyone wondering, player names are: Cyn #PRO Tav #PRO

Can't believe you photoshopped him out..... Unbelievable really.

How many of those people are the vice president of Blizzard and the game designer for Overwatch though?

True but at least I wrote it myself 🙃

My side of the NiP story Read: tl.gd/n_1sqv941

Congratulations are in order. @TheGuard are your 2023 VCT Americas Ascension Champions! A much deserved trophy lift... so happy for you all! @valynfps @JonahP_ @trentFPS @texerino @neT_valorant @joshrt Good luck in VCT next year.

I watched the @ShahZaMk piece about his dad 3 times so I could get through the segment without crying and I still got teary eyed. I hope you know your esports family loves you and has your back. I respect the hell out of you for sharing that piece of your life with us. ❤️❤️❤️

Seems like the screenshots aren't working for everyone due to the weird format of the files but the video they were pulled from was leaked to reddit. piped.video/watch?v=KKuNuakl…

Excited to announce that starting next month, I will be pursuing esports as my full time career!!!! Thank you everyone for supporting me! :)

Now that my time at @ESEA is officially at its close, I'm excited to announce that I'll be joining @N3rdStGamers as a Senior Broadcast Manager! Excited to get to work this week. See you all in Chicago for the #NCS Major!

Expectations vs reality.

I'm actually amazed by the number of people that dodge Pearl in ranked. Am I the only one that likes the map?

My mom kicked cancers ass over 10 years ago but my aunts both lost the battle. Today were spending 24 hours raising money for the American Cancer Society. This is really important to me so RTs and twitch hosts are big time appreciated. <3 #gamersvscancer twitch.tv/gvcphilly

Today was my last day on the #VCT desk for Stage 1. Big thank you to Riot for having me and to my many analysts for making it such an enjoyable time. Felt really good to be back into the hosting position. Here's hoping for more opportunities in the future 🤞🤞

I'm pretty sure @LobanjicaCS could deadlift an entire overwatch team.

For anyone wondering, you can leave the motherboard in the case. I took my whole PC outside and used the hose instead so I could clean the graphics card and CPU fans too.

Never underestimate @version1gg . Big dubs incoming for the squad at #VCT Masters. NA upper final incoming.

Creators like @DisguisedToast are supporting players at a time when most orgs are struggling. The space could use more creator backed orgs like DSG and @MoistEsports that operate under different rules and standards than traditional esports brands. Let's not dismiss this so fast

The most frustrating thing about #COVID19 is many's laissez faire response to the outbreak. I'm immunocompromised and I've had multiple panic attacks the past month from this. COVID could leave my wife without a husband and my kids without a father. This isn't just about you.

What a great up and coming tweet, gone to soon ❤️

Meet Ginny, the newest member of the Wilson family. (:

Unreal grand finals series between @TSM and @Sentinels. I'm so lucky to have been a part of this event with such a talented team. Breaking records, setting standards and building storylines. Valorant is a hell of a drug. Congrats @reltuC @hazedCS @Dronecsgo @Subroza @WVRDELL

Im gonna start by saying I love the BR fans. DH Rio was one of my favorite events because of your passionate fandom but it's incredibly ironic to claim a team caught cheating shouldn't be punished after how the BR community reacted to @leaf_cs and @Xeppaaa being "suspicious."

This is a thread of things I noticed (and some things others warned me about) after spending 14 hours producing @PlayVALORANT yesterday. Hopefully this will help others producing similar content or possibly result in some fixes from the developers. While the game is smooth

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Riot should buy a decommissioned cruise ship and run VCT in the middle of the ocean. Players and production can just live aboard and you could make content 24/7. It's so obvious.

Same energy.

Giving away this silly pin thing. Apparently people like them. Shipping everywhere. Follow and retweet to enter. Giveaway ends February 1st. Maybe I'll get another one and giveaway 2 if people like it enough. :) Good luck nerds !

Thats it for me observing for @Flashpoint's #PopFlash Ignition Series event. Proud of my performance as an observer but def have some room to improve. Catching diceys ace, kaboose's 4k & sheriff ace and basically all of Sen vs C9 felt pretty awesome. GL tomorrow everyone!

It's truly astounding how many people in the CS scene still don't understand the dynamic or get the purpose of women's only events after so many years. If you think these events are a bad thing, check your console and change cl_brainsmoothing from 2 to 0.

Giving away a Forest DDPAT gut knife @ end of the stream (roughly 12AM EST). Retweet, follow and head to Twitch.tv/boq_Tv

After a year of being bed ridden in a hospital bed, my aunt is finally at rest. While I'm sad that it happened while I was away, I'm glad that she's not in pain anymore. I'll forever cherish the time she spent watching me and my sister as kids and the memories we made.

Teammate: "Let me go B, I've been a b-holder since forever." Me: "But do you have beauty in your eyes? Because I've always been told that beauty is in the eyes of the b-holder" Team: *crickets*

Losing weight has been a slow (and private) process but today I stepped on the scale and saw 170 for the first time in years (27 lbs lost. 3lbs from goal!) I may not have a 6 pack but I'm proud of my progress. Here is my first workout selfie ever that Im reluctantly sharing here

Fixed deph's liquipedia page for you. Excited to see where this project takes you guys. Good luck gents!

I have a lot of respect for Twistzz for what he has accomplished but I think he's out of touch with how bad t2 has gotten. As a reminder, he hasnt played t2 in 5 years Back then, NA EPL had 14 teams and the top MDL team got promoted while 2/3 played relegation. A lot has changed

Esports, personal disappointments, ups and downs & burnout: my personal take, a🧵 This one is a doozy so buckle in.