In League of Legends there is trouble. A Twitch streamer has been running a successful event in Spain since 2019, the “SoloQ Challenge.” In 2023, the event is taking place almost identically in France and has the support of Riot Games. The streamer is beside himself: Riot Games has simply stolen everything without asking him.
What kind of event is this? Since 2019, the Twitch streamer ElmillioR has been hosting an event in Spain: SoloQ Challenge. This is the largest event for League of Legends in the country.
In the event, professional players and content creators compete and try to reach the highest rank in SoloQ from scratch within 21 days.
This is the new development:
- In 2023, the event “SoloQ Challenge” is now officially created for French, Belgian, and Swiss participants.
- For this, 60 streamers and professionals have been invited.
- The event is organized by the streamer “TraYtoN” together with Riot Games. There is a prize pool of €14,500. The event runs from April 1 to April 24.
Among the invited players, who are also known outside of France, are LEC professionals like Hans sama, Nisqy, and Targamas.
Spanish Twitch streamer feels robbed
Here’s why the streamer is so upset: The Spaniard accuses Riot Games of stealing his idea without asking him beforehand:
This has totally gone out of control. They stole the name of the project, copied the format, and took 100% of my website (front and back end). And all this, without asking me.
At the same time, he complains about the lack of support from Riot Games Spain, which he calls incompetent.
Riot Games says: the event is approved and completely fine by them
What does Riot Games say about this? The situation is quite strange. The French division of Riot Games merely states (via twitter):
In light of the claims made by a Spanish streamer regarding the SoloQ Challenge project, we want to assure you that Trayton’s project SoloQ Challenge France as well as his website are supported and approved by Riot Games, and that everything has been conducted according to the rules.
Thus, they ultimately only state: the event has their blessing, which no one has contested.
They go on to explain that the event in France is a collaboration with Spain. In fact, they had planned to hold two events in parallel, in France and Spain. Therefore, there are some similarities. They know that both communities in France and Spain love the competition but want a healthy competition.
However, regarding the allegations that they stole the event and did not contact the creator of the event, they do not comment at all.
What’s behind this? Apparently, the Spanish streamer considers his event to be “his property” – but Riot Games does not see it that way and regards the SoloQ Challenge as a successful event in their game that they would also like to try elsewhere. After all, it’s their game and they have all the rights to it.
One can probably understand both sides. However, it would have been at least nice if they had asked the Spaniard, who is clearly very upset because Riot Spain is not supporting his event as he wants, while he is being copied by Riot France.
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