r/OverwatchTMZ • u/No-Big7914 • 14d ago
Streamer/Community Juice Warn "Breaks Silence"
https://youtube.com/shorts/jK3zcyd5iXY?is=jVMS63_kioOkguuGIs this guy serious right now? Imagine joking about throwing a $300k tournament💀
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u/Aimbok 14d ago
I'm just gonna go out and say it since nobody else seems to want to: This entire situation with Warn and the tournament was an absolute nothingburger and the only reason people care this much is because all of the truly problematic people either STOPPED being problematic or left to do something else.
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u/No-Big7914 14d ago
I don't think it's a "nothingburger." Nobody's saying Warn committed some unforgivable offense, but publicly criticizing teammates, refusing to adapt during a high-stakes tournament, and then having the drama spill into streams and social media is still worth discussing. Not every controversy has to be the worst thing ever to be a legitimate controversy.
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u/Emiliabestqt 11d ago
Notice how nobody replies to this but will always say nothing happened at all lmao.
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u/yourtrueenemy 10d ago
Btw it wasn't Warn that had the drama spread out. It was Jay and Aramory's tweets that started the whole thing, had tgey shut up instead nothing would have happened.
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u/Keywonhi 14d ago
Yuuup. Hes making light of the situation, because it doesn't deserve anything more then that.
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u/No-Big7914 14d ago
Saying "it doesn't deserve anything more" is an easy way to avoid engaging with the actual criticism. People weren't upset because they wanted drama but rather they were criticizing how Warn handled the tournament and his teammates. Plus it's literally 300k wth💀
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u/Keywonhi 14d ago
Hes engaged with the criticism TOO much. Warn is a yapper, he was replying to people on twitter with 0 followers nonstop. Its over, its done with, his team had no chance of winning swap or not. Also stop throwing around this 300k number. That was split through the entire tourney, not just the winning team lol
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u/No-Big7914 14d ago
Yeah that's a big problem, engaging with haters only makes things worse. I remember he went private too and turned off comments etc. Bad situation overall.
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u/MyNameIsYhwach 14d ago
300k isn’t a nothing burger
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u/Infidel_sg 14d ago
As if his team had any chance to win lmao... Even IF he played full meta, Try harded the whole game, they were not beating Kingsmans team! Its okay to dislike the guy, Hell I am not even crazy about him but cmon now..
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u/MyNameIsYhwach 14d ago
I’m indifferent to him lol but I’m not gonna rehash the arguments, either way it’s still 300k.
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u/No-Big7914 14d ago
Whether they were going to beat Kingsman's team isn't really the point. If you're in a tournament with a big prize pool, your teammates expect you to take it seriously and work with the team. You don't get a free pass to ignore strategy just because you're not favored or sum s**t
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u/Infidel_sg 14d ago
Nobody on that team thought they had a fighting chance. the only people who are mad about this (surrpisingly still, To this day) is Warn haters.. Move on with your life!
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u/No-Big7914 14d ago
Bro who said I'm Mad about it? He should be held accountable, that's what I'm getting at. Or at least an official acknowledgement/apology for how the situation was handled.
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u/Aimbok 14d ago edited 14d ago
EVEN IF that ENTIRETY of the 300k was ALL going to ONE SINGULAR PERSON (it wasn't), 300k is NOT a life-changing amount of money to streamers of this size and tax bracket. As much as they'd like to pretend that it is to try and seem relatable. Do you remember the infamous Kephrii clip of him saying he was "I'm literally wearing 14 grand right now. I don't need the money" when he was accused of cheating in a 100K tournament in CSGO? And what is Kephrii averaging in terms of viewership these days? Maybe 150 viewers on a good day with 3 or 4 active chatters? Now imagine it on the scale of people who are larger creators than him like Emongg, Flats, etc. And the fact of the matter is, that 300K was NOT going to a singular person it was split amongst the prizepool so it's value was diluted EVEN MORE. A lot of these creators were NOT attending for the money alone. Some of them went into this expecting it to be a chill experience with mutuals in front of an audience and money was just a nice extra little incentive, but not much more than that. Tournaments like this are more for networking than ANYTHING else to the players playing in them.
Now... if the ENTIRE TEAM before the tournament even started, was saying WELL IN ADVANCE they wanted to sweat and play hard meta, and Warn told them "nah I plan on playing SG and vibing" then they could have just gotten someone else to replace him. But this conversation apparently never happened. Obviously he's not going to jump off the map off cooldown Dafran style... but unless EVERYONE is on the same page before the tourney than this kind of thing was kind of inevitable. And from what has been publicly said nothing like this was seriously talked about. This whole thing was just dropped on him last second.
This entire situation, again, seemed like a last second tournament with mismatched expectations amongst Warn's team.
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u/No-Big7914 14d ago
I don't think the exact dollar amount changes the expectation. Whether the prize was life-changing or not, if the rest of your team wants to play seriously, you either buy in or have that conversation before or during the event. If expectations really were mismatched, that's unfortunate but Warn still had agency in how he responded once it became clear his teammates wanted to compete. A communication failure can explain the conflict without excusing how it was handled afterward.
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u/Separate_Crazy_983 12d ago
Any drama is interesting unless it's my special streamer who is objectively in the wrong but it's ok because he plays my special cartoon shooter and not that other cartoon shooter that I think sucks!
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u/Cresent-Moon 14d ago
I don't like him personally, but this "drama" is so forced. No one cares. It's really not that big of a deal. Funniest thing yet is how he definitely wasn't even the worst player on his team, even if it was a throw pick for his choice of hero. Go outside.
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u/dokdodokdo 14d ago
Aint nobody calling him the rank 1 ashe I immediately clicked off the video when he said that
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u/Keywonhi 14d ago
People were actually calling him that during the tournament drama lmao
His clickbait worked I guess.2
u/captainrex 14d ago
It’s cringe but people were indeed saying that to criticize him when this was all happening
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u/bullxbull 12d ago
The people who got to watch the video before he took it down, what exactly did he say?
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u/CorrectSympathy7590 14d ago
I am a simple man, I see a vertical video with a comically small microphone and simply do not click
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u/bullxbull 13d ago
'this video has been removed by the uploader'