The Twitch streamer Moe “Yassuo” Abdalrhman (21) specializes in League of Legends, but is now participating in a major tournament on Twitch and had to play Mortal Kombat 11 there. However, his temperament proved to be his downfall.
Here is the situation: 21-year-old Yassuo is a professional streamer for 100 Thieves, Nadeshot’s e-sports organization. It has now become fashionable for e-sports clans to not only employ e-sport athletes but also hire Twitch streamers and YouTubers.
- Yassuo participated in the tournament “AT&T Annihilator Cup”. The large US corporation announced an e-sports tournament for the entire April 2020: 20 streamers compete against each other in 5 games. In the end, a prize pool of $100,000 awaits.
- The games played are Apex Legends, CS:GO, Mortal Kombat 11, Halo and Among Us, which doesn’t really fit this list.
- Participants include some of the big Twitch stars with e-sports ambitions like shroud, Lirik, Mizkif and also Yassuo. The tournament is currently ongoing: Mortal Kombat 11 was played last weekend.
Keyboard broken and the next round begins
This is the clip: Yassuo faces off against the Ninja Scorpion against Cetrion, the “Goddess of Life”. Yassuo loses the match and control, as the streamer Emiru catches him and lands the finishing blow.
Yassuo stands up and angrily pounds on the keyboard. As he stomps and storms away from the computer in rage, you can hear the keys fall out of the keyboard and clatter on the hardwood floor.
Yassuo immediately understands what he has done, exclaims “Fuck – my Keys” and starts to panic, trying to put the individual keys back into the keyboard, because the next round is about to begin. And he just destroyed his working device.
And then it continued: Right after the outburst, Yassuo was sober again and started to furiously pound on his keyboard in the next round. Because the old rule applies: The harder you hit the keys, the more damage you do.
But also because some keys were missing, he lost the next round and the victory went to Emiru. During a break before the next match, Yassuo was able to press enough keys back into the keyboard to continue.
You can see: Anger outbursts put gamers mentally off balance, as Yassuo surely knows from LoL: Tilt threatens. But an outburst directed at the equipment can decrease the chances of winning in the next match for mundane reasons: A keyboard without keys doesn’t really work.
One streamer even made it his trademark to destroy keyboards on Twitch by smashing them over his head in anger. He even bought cheaper keyboards specifically to destroy them. But Twitch didn’t find that funny at all:
Streamer breaks keyboard, receives Twitch ban, hints at suicidal thoughts
