Last week, the professional representation body was formed League of Legends players in North America, the LCS Players Association, announced intentions to strike over Riot’s plans to destroy the North American Challenger’s League. It’s a commendable attitude about moves that will cost dozens of people their jobs, but not all league The player appears to be on board.
About Jake Lucky, here’s the video of Megastar Doublelift -“is considered one of the most iconic League of Legends players of all time“- chatting about the topic at the weekend and saying tIf push comes to shove and the planned strike is scrapped, he won’t put the pressure on:
“I want to say it’s important to me, but if there’s an opportunity to stand by the Academy and have the LCS Summer Split canceled like Riot has threatened and just let the situation go, then I’ll let go,” he said on the stream . “I’m not that excited that I’d be willing not to play Summer Split. For example, when Riot threatened to go nuclear, that was a pretty big threat. I think every player was affected a little bit like Riot is willing to cancel Summer Splits due to this strike? I hope the negotiations go well.”
The backlash to his statements was predictably quick, like this sarcastic tweet from Christian Rivera pointing out Comments from such a prominent player undermine the LCSPA’s ability to negotiate:
Do not participate in strikes or strikes because the company you are in dispute with is making threats…not how strikes work, my man. Disruption of regular events is the Point. That’s the basis of what a strike is and in case you’re in doubt Doublelift didn’t know this, his attempts to clear the air afterwards confirm it.
“It’s like a nuclear button. Why should that even be part of the equation? Everyone’s just going to suffer,” he said, as reported by Dexerto. “If LCS Summer is cancelled, all players will lose their jobs for half a year. We’re not getting paid to sit around playing solo cue and turning on the stream.”
“People who claim I sabotaged the negotiations are a little delusional on that score. I just don’t want that to happen. Nobody wants the LCS to be cancelled.”
buddy people absolutely Do I want LCS canceled if Riot doesn’t come to the table. That’s exactly the plan. These are strikes. And for one of the game’s biggest names, tFor us to pull this on the sidelines of one of the scene’s most pivotal working moments hurts only two things: the solidarity of North American League players and Doublelift’s own reputation.
