'Who planned this garbage?' Streamers unite in slamming the official Twitch Marvel Rivals tournament for last-minute rule changes and unbalanced chaos
Over the weekend, Marvel Rivals put on one of the first tournaments that the new hero shooter has seen in conjunction with Twitch, and while it was certainly set out to be a big success, some of the streamers involved had some not-so-nice things to say about it.
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YouTuber Rachel «Valkyrae» Hofstetter was one of the streamers that played in this Twitch Rivals tournament, and after a bunch of tough games, she flipped out just a little bit about how poorly balanced all the team match-ups were.
«Which Twitch staff member do I need to talk to? I don't understand how this happened,» Valkyrae says during her Twitch stream. «I need to say something. I waited five years to play in a Twitch Rival for this shit to happen? This is insane. Who planned this garbage?»
for context the upcoming twitch rivals had a 2 player limit for gm+ players but they changed jt to 4 players just a week before the tournamentnow its just a bunch of eternity sweats (like us) with over 300 hours stomping on streamers who are just there for fun https://t.co/Db1fZYwbQlJanuary 17, 2025
The main issue arose after Twitch apparently changed the rules of the tournament to allow teams of multiple GM+ ranked players: «For context, the upcoming Twitch Rivals had a two-player limit for GM+ players, but they changed it to four players just a week before the tournament,» a streamer known as bogur says. «Now it's just a bunch of eternity sweats (like us) with over 3,000 hours stomping on streamers who are just there for fun.
»At this point, it's more of a pro tournament where the high-rated players will game, and everyone else will be AFK. Twitch Rivals, in my honest opinion, should be about content creators learning the game, competing, and having fun, but how are they supposed to
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