Does it not disturb any one that the only way to keep the Overwatch esports scene alive is to take blood money money from the Saudi Government? For fucks sake, Mohammed bin Salman, the man who the CIA alleges ordered the hit that slaughtered journalist Jamal Khashoggi on foreign soil is seen here pictured on the same damn stage that welcomed Overwatch players and analysts.

There were a ton of article written on this explaining the direct link between the Saudi Government and ESWC + FaceIT/ESL. This is not something you can overlook. In response to this, Overwatch has only doubled down on it's involvement with Saudi government owned ventures like FaceIT and has directly incorporated them into the game.

Imagine having to shake the hand of a man who had a journalist brutally dismembered, because it means Overwatch gets to exist another day. Is that really where we're at right now?

Jennifer “Lemonkiwi” Pichette
Soe Gschwind
Jack “Jaws” Wright
Mitch “Uber” Leslie
Matt “Mr.X” Morello
Jake “Jake” Lyon
Jonathan “Reinforce” Snowden
Kevin “AVRL” Walker

And many more, INCLUDING PLAYERS, signed off on this absolute shit show in Riyadh. How could they have known about Saudi Arabia's many documented human rights abuses? How could they?

Fuck you and fuck everyone involved in the current iteration of Overwatch as an esport. It needed to die in 2017 when the writing was on the wall that the 20M buy-in was ridiculous, and it needs to die today if it cannot sustain itself without receiving blood money from organization that invite people who order hits on journalist to walk the stage and deliver opening speeches.