{"id":23397,"date":"2021-10-19T07:54:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T07:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/xqc-reveals-overwatch-league-players-wanted-to-unionize"},"modified":"2024-07-19T10:50:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T10:50:06","slug":"xqc-reveals-overwatch-league-players-wanted-to-unionize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/overwatch\/xqc-reveals-overwatch-league-players-wanted-to-unionize","title":{"rendered":"xQc reveals Overwatch League players wanted to unionize"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twitch<\/a> streamer and former Overwatch League pro, Felix “xQc” Lengyel<\/a>, revealed that during his esports career, some Overwatch players wanted to unionize after they disagreed with certain terms stipulated in their contractual agreement. xQc contends that the players were ultimately pressured into signing their official Overwatch<\/a> League contracts, despite this disagreement, which eventually shut down discussions of unionization from ever happening. <\/p>\n

xQc reveals Overwatch League players wanted to unionize<\/h2>\n

In a Twitch stream with Hasan Piker<\/a> (otherwise known as HasanAbi) and Alex Press, a political journalist at the left-wing quarterly magazine Jacobin, xQc explained how the Overwatch League<\/a> pressurized pro players to sign their contracts early in the process.<\/p>\n

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xQc claims Overwatch League pros wanted to unionize after disagreeing with terms in their contract. (Picture: Blizzard)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

xQc said that the Overwatch League personnel gave players “these big a** contracts at the end of this conference, which every player had to sign to accept the official Overwatch League agreements.” He mentioned that the document was huge and that “not everybody agreed with what was in the document,” adding that players thought it was “kind of stupid.”<\/p>\n