{"id":6648,"date":"2020-07-29T12:52:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T12:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/lec-broadcast-team-furious-after-saudi-backed-neom-sponsorship-is-announced"},"modified":"2024-07-21T18:30:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T18:30:17","slug":"lec-broadcast-team-furious-after-saudi-backed-neom-sponsorship-is-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/league-of-legends\/lec-broadcast-team-furious-after-saudi-backed-neom-sponsorship-is-announced","title":{"rendered":"LEC team furious after Saudi backed NEOM sponsorship is announced: &#8220;The league I cover is now promoting a country that would kill me just for existing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been just over an hour since the sponsorship was announced, and the entire live broadcast team for the LEC has now vocally dissented against the league&rsquo;s new sponsor NEOM.<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Froskurinn\/status\/1288436237339103239?s=20\"><twitter-widget class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" id=\"twitter-widget-0\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg); width: 550px; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; min-width: 220px;\"><\/twitter-widget><twitter-widget class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" data-tweet-id=\"1288436237339103239\" id=\"twitter-widget-0\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg); width: 550px; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; min-width: 220px;\"><\/twitter-widget><twitter-widget class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" id=\"twitter-widget-0\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg);\"><\/twitter-widget><twitter-widget class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" data-tweet-id=\"1288436237339103239\" id=\"twitter-widget-0\" style=\"position: static; visibility: visible; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg); width: 550px; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; min-width: 220px;\"><\/twitter-widget><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div id=\"traffective-ad-Content_1_461022\" style=\"display: none;\" class=\"Content_1\"><\/div>\n<p>Backed and masterminded by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, NEOM is a planned megacity with a budget of &pound;400bn with extravagant plans that include an &ldquo;artificial moon&rdquo; and glow in the dark beaches. All laudable goals &#8211; if tarred by vanity and eccentricity &#8211; but those plans are built on the blood of the over 20,000 indeginous people it will be displacing.<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Quickshot\/status\/1288439332169277440?s=20\"><twitter-widget class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" id=\"twitter-widget-2\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg); width: 550px; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; min-width: 220px;\"><\/twitter-widget><twitter-widget class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" data-tweet-id=\"1288439332169277440\" id=\"twitter-widget-1\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg); width: 550px; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; min-width: 220px;\"><\/twitter-widget><twitter-widget class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" id=\"twitter-widget-1\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg);\"><\/twitter-widget><twitter-widget class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" data-tweet-id=\"1288439332169277440\" id=\"twitter-widget-1\" style=\"position: static; visibility: visible; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg); width: 550px; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; min-width: 220px;\"><\/twitter-widget><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/may\/04\/its-being-built-on-our-blood-the-true-cost-of-saudi-arabia-5bn-mega-city-neom\">Guardian article linked<\/a> by Trevor &ldquo;Quickshot&rdquo; Henry puts it this way: &ldquo;Neom is less a shining vision of the future than a grim symbol of Saudi human rights violations, underscored by the treatment of the Huwaitat tribe.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LEC\/status\/1288433918803410945?s=20\"><twitter-widget class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" id=\"twitter-widget-3\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg); width: 550px; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; min-width: 220px;\"><\/twitter-widget><twitter-widget class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" data-tweet-id=\"1288433918803410945\" id=\"twitter-widget-2\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg); width: 550px; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; min-width: 220px;\"><\/twitter-widget><twitter-widget class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" id=\"twitter-widget-2\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg);\"><\/twitter-widget><twitter-widget class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" data-tweet-id=\"1288433918803410945\" id=\"twitter-widget-2\" style=\"position: static; visibility: visible; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg); width: 550px; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; min-width: 220px;\"><\/twitter-widget><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>For the likes of Indiana &ldquo;Froskurinn&rdquo; Black and ex-caster, now MAD Lions Community Manager James &ldquo;Stress&rdquo; O&rsquo;Leary, the sponsorship strikes on a more personal level. Both are outspoken members of the LGBTQ+ community, and Saudi Arabia alongside MBS have a notoriously brutal history of abuse against that community. Stress puts it bluntly: &nbsp;&ldquo;The league I cover is now promoting a country that would kill me just for existing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StressCasts\/status\/1288436615266869248?s=20\"><twitter-widget class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" id=\"twitter-widget-4\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg); width: 550px; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; min-width: 220px;\"><\/twitter-widget><twitter-widget class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" data-tweet-id=\"1288436615266869248\" id=\"twitter-widget-3\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg); width: 550px; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; min-width: 220px;\"><\/twitter-widget><twitter-widget class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" id=\"twitter-widget-3\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg);\"><\/twitter-widget><twitter-widget class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" data-tweet-id=\"1288436615266869248\" id=\"twitter-widget-3\" style=\"position: static; visibility: visible; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg); width: 550px; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; min-width: 220px;\"><\/twitter-widget><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The LEC&rsquo;s logo was recently rebranded into pride colours. Never has that felt more like an empty corporate statement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LEC Neom saudi arabia blood money sponsorship\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-cf.ginx.tv\/imgcdn\/14uCzIJWltFyOfjwOEwZX_UDe4y41jvR2qny_0PLvBA\/rs:fill:0:0:1\/g:ce\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ2lueC50di91cGxvYWRzL0xFQ19ORW9tLnBuZw\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 338px;\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" loading=\"lazy\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:11px;\">(Picture: LEC)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The current list of dissenters includes: Quickshot, Drakos, Medic, Froskurinn (1 and 2), Vedius, Ender, Sjokz, Laure, Stress, Munch, Shakarez, Jeff Latham, Triaged, Darius, Excoundrel, Michal Konkol, Becca<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Read more:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/video-games\/the-recent-neom-sponsorships-are-a-travesty-there-can-be-no-place-for-human-rights-abuse-in-esports\">The recent NEOM sponsorships are a travesty &#8211; there can be no place for human rights abuse in esports<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>LEC are not the only esport organisation that has recently signed a deal with NEOM, BLAST also <a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2020\/07\/lec-neom-saudi-arabia\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">signed a deal<\/a> with the planned city-state with the goal of advising on the creation of&nbsp;&#8220;an esports academy in the city and the expansion of esports within the wider Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been just over an hour since the sponsorship was announced, and the entire live broadcast team for the LEC has now vocally dissented&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3249,"featured_media":6649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-of-legends","genre-moba","content_type-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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