Riot Games Gave Nadeshot "Preferential Treatment"

Credit: Riot Games, Nadeshot, Jack Etienne

100Thieves owner Matthew “Nadeshot” Haag has a huge following, more than any other LCS team owner and he is staying committed to content creation on his Youtube, and Twitch. With this in mind, it is not surprising that he gets early access to games. One of the most recent games he got early access to is Riot Games’ Valorant. However, since he the owner of 100Thieves he has an LCS team. LCS team owners are getting Valorant on the 8th. Since Nadeshot is a large content creator it is not surprising he got early access. According to Nadeshot, multiple LCS owners had an issue with this. Nadeshot has this to say about owners complaining that he got access:

But to all the owners that complained about my access and forced Riot into this position… I’ve been creating content since 2010. I’ve been streaming before Twitch even existed. I’ve made thousands and thousands of YouTube videos. If you’re wondering I had access, that’s why.
— 100T Nadeshot (@Nadeshot) April 6, 2020

Jack Etienne owner of Cloud9 responded on twitter by saying:

First I heard about this, from my understanding all teams were under the same schedule. Are you actually upset you didn’t get some sort of special priority on the other owners? Seems weird.
— Jack Etienne (@JackEtienne) April 7, 2020

Jack Etienne did say that he did not agree with the ruling to not let Nadeshot stream the game a day early. That brings it down to Riot who knew Nadeshot was an owner of an LCS team, and they also knew that influences get to stream it before LCS team owners do. However, Riot Games knew this and they let Nadeshot get access to the closed beta. They also told him he could stream a day early, but since team owners made a fuss about it he got that revoked.

Source(s): Twitter, Riot Games, Nadeshot, Valorant, Jack Etienne