Elon Musk was spotted in the audience at the Valorant Champions 2023 e-sports tournament. As the camera caught X’s CEO, the audience expressed how they felt about him. Gamers express concern that the rich man in the world could now buy Valorant and treat it the same as Twitter.
This is the starting point:
The Valorant Champions 2023 event has attracted many fans, pro players and celebrities. On the last day, August 26th, Elon music was spotted in the audience. However, the fans were not at all enthusiastic and booed the CEO of X, formerly Twitter.
Here you can see a video of the Champions Tour 2023:
Valorant Champions Tour 2023 LOCK IN Cinematic Trailer
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“Please Elon Esports!”
How did the audience react? As gameplay from the Evil Geniuses team is shown, the camera pans briefly to a familiar face: Elon Musk. In the clip on Twitch, the boos can be heard: “Bring Twitter back,” roared the crowd.
Here you can see the Twitch clip on the Valorant account:
The clip was also picked up and commented on Reddit. On the r/LivestreamFail subreddit, user 5K337Lord’s August 27 post has already garnered over 3,700 upvotes and 500 comments.
This is what gamers are worried about now: The comment with the most approvals in the form of over 2,000 upvotes comes from Bleeding_Irish. There the user writes: “He will buy Valorant and start getting people from entry [zu den Turnieren] ruled out.” (via Reddit).
User Tokugawa23 replies, “I thought he wanted to remove the blocking feature. He will probably rename Valorant to ‘X-Spiel’.” This comment also received over 400 upvotes.
Elon Musk’s visit also caught the attention of several streamers. There is a summary of the reactions in the streams on YouTube.
Streamer Disguised Toast said with a laugh: “Oh my god! Very controversial figure. Oh no, now that he’s been booed, he won’t be investing in Valorant anymore. We messed it up.”
Former Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pro Tarik, who hosted the live watch party with Jeremy Disguised Toast, replied: “We’re trying to get Elon on the stream. But he said he’s too cool for us. Brother please Elon-E-Sports!”
In the comments, a few users are wondering which hero Elon Musk is playing in Valorant. Who knows how a comment from him would be received after his build in Elden Ring caused amusement:
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