Riot Games has fun with their biggest Twitch streamer, Tyler “Tyler1” Steinkamp, in League of Legends. He has achieved great things on Twitch and in LoL, reaching the highest rank in all 5 roles. This comes with a personal gift from Riot Games featuring a little jab.
This is the situation:
- Tyler1 is a LoL player and entertainer on Twitch who was banned from the game for years due to constant flaming and bad behavior. But because a Riot Games employee wished him cancer, he was allowed back into the game.
- Tyler1 is now the largest and most important streamer for LoL. He played over 6000 matches for 2 years just to reach the highest rank in LoL, “Challenger”, in all 5 positions. This is an incredible achievement, especially for a Twitch streamer who is not a professional Esport player but primarily should entertain his viewers.
- For this achievement, there is now a personal gift from Riot Games. Tyler1 and Riot celebrated their love-hate relationship a bit.
What was this gift? Riot Games had a chain made with 5 medals for Tyler1. Each of the medals symbolizes a role that Tyler1 became Challenger in.
When Tyler1 realized that he could hang the medals around his neck like gold medals at the Olympics, he did so immediately and then joked: They would surely choke him unconscious.
How does Tyler1 react to the gift? He was genuinely happy but also took the opportunity to poke fun at Riot:
You know what? I like this a bit. It’s something special, it’s unique. You know, I think I’m going to say it: Thank you, Riot! Record this better and save it, because I will never say this again in my life. But I appreciate it, thanks, guys.
Tyler1
Reward for Account that isn’t perma-banned
How does Riot annoy him? When Tyler1 examines the package more closely, he notices a letter addressed to him from Riot Games. As he reads the letter, he comes across a passage:
As an account with which you’ve become AD Carry Challenger, we took one that isn’t permabanned, so the date might not be quite right.
This refers to Riot Games’ reference to Tyler1’s past as the “bad boy” who was practically always banned from League of Legends. At that time, Tyler1 mainly played ADC Draven and was successful with it early on before he learned the other roles.
Tyler1 has to smile but immediately corrects Riot: That’s not right. Those special accounts that he became Challenger with years ago as AD Carry weren’t permanently banned.
Another typical example of the quirky relationship that Riot Games maintains with its most important Twitch streamer.
Riot Games often has fun with Tyler1:
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