Riot comes under fire for their selection of streamers in League of Legends Worlds 2022 Finals

Riot Games is being criticized for their selective nitpicking of streamers to stream the League of Legends finals as a constituent in their Watch party. This criticism stems from the fact that Riot has taken in streamers without consideration of the entire community. Gamers and ex-pros along with certain streamers are calling it a marketing gimmick to attract the attention of a diversified fan base to increase the popularity of the game.

The primary problem stems from the fact that Riot has been severely disruptive of the streamers’ attempts to create watch parties, going so far as to disincentivize and actively ban streamers from streaming or disrupting by creating time delays that never synchronized with the real game time. This meant that the streamers and their audience were always behind schedule at any Riot streaming event and it was only by joining the official Riot stream that the community could keep up with the game in real time.

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The problem that the community has with Riot on the selection of the streamers is primarily the limited number, and secondly the difference in diversity along with not allowing for streamers with larger fanbases and those who actually made the game popular to stream it real time. Although this makes sense from a commercial point of view, compelling its audience to watch a particular stream while having gathered a reputation for banning ex-pros and streamers who had previously tried streaming makes the community question Riot.

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Who are the streamers for League of Legends Worlds 2022?

Riot has chosen four streamers for the League of Legends finals who would be streaming in different languages and in a diversified community in order to spread the influence of the game. The English stream will be co-hosted by Sykkuno, who is an immensely popular Legends streamer within the community. Ibai Llanos has been picked to stream in Spanish, with a whopping 11.1 million followers on Twitch.

The duo of Sangho Lee & Min Gyo Kim has been picked from Korea, and they shall be co-hosting in their native language while Rita has been picked as the final streamer from China. League of Legends Worlds finals are scheduled to begin on 7th November and fans are eager to find out which team would end up winning the coveted championship. Amidst all the chaos, fans will be hoping that the players are able to distance themselves and play in the Worlds final.

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