Video game developer Stephen “Mortdog” Mortimer is working on Teamfight Tactics, the autobattler featuring League of Legends (LoL) characters, for Riot Games. He has a problem with how young viewers treat their stars, the esports players.
This is the background of the clip:
Was “only” second at the World Cup and therefore insulted as “wasted”, Faker:
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This annoys Mortdog like this: In a Twitch stream, Mortdog was annoyed at how young people in particular treat their stars with disrespect.
He showed a clip of basketball star Giannis Antetokounmpo declaring that there are no failures in sport, there are only good days and bad days.
That is the core of the sport: you cannot always win.
Mortdog complains about the way Twitch viewers treat esports players and how lightly they judge others. It’s not journalists who hacked at the e-sportsmen, but the people in the Twitch chat – they are much worse:
Someone comes second in a tournament and you call them shabby. People called Faker a rip off because he finished second at Worlds. You guys are awful! Nothing freaks me out more than people sitting in their bedroom at their mama’s house talking crap about people going out and gambling. That’s ridiculous. You are all ridiculous.
He urges viewers to treat their role models with respect.
What is so special about the statement? In the comments on YouTube, one user notes that Mortdog is defending someone he himself clashed with in TFT. K3Soju and Mortdog have argued with each other about the state of TFT in the past.
It was “heartwarming” how Mortodg stood up for him here, the comments said.
We reported on MeinMMO about the finals of the LoL World Championship, when Faker lost in a duel with an old school friend:
Twitch: 5.1 million views LoL – Worlds 2022 finale shatters viewership records as the king falls