Accusations of Riot preventing casters from saying “Hong Kong” during the League of Legends World Championship have emerged, with there being numerous instances of the casters oddly correcting themselves after stating “Hong Kong” when referring to competitive team Hong Kong Attitude.
Those watching the League of Legends World Championship noticed that many of the casters were correcting themselves when referring to competitive team Hong Kong Attitude, instead opting to abbreviate their name as “HKA”, leading some to believe that Riot might have demanded that they not mention Hong Kong at the behest of their Tencent overlords:
Casters however have already mentioned the full name of the team several times during the event, making things even more odd:
Riot employee Riot Cactopus addressed the matter, clarifying that they refer to the team Hong Kong Attitude by both their full name and as the HKA abbreviation all the time – he also stated that they are not telling people to not say “Hong Kong” and would prefer, rather confusingly, the team were called by its full name:
Considering Riot is owned by Tencent, some may not be accepting of this explanation.
China, our Communist Overlords.
China is no longer a Communist country and haven’t been one for a long time.
it is a Dictatorial Hyper- State-Capitalistic country.
the world would be BETTER without chinkus, kikes and goat-lovers.
what about whitus?
Without those parasites. World would be a much better place to live that for sure.
Lol. Any threat to america is deemed communism.
This is capitalist as hell: uber rich company has other companies bowing before them by threat of denying them access to one of the biggest markets.
Capitalism, baby!
Glowniggers are trying to stir up sympathy among the inbred neocon hoi poloi
private companies being afraid of government backlash is not capitalism…
Western companies don’t fear the Chinese government, they fear losing China’s money.
Exactly. There’s been a long standing issue with China dumping cheap steel into Europes markets which undercuts the local companies and thus causes them financial hardship.
But they’ll happily s♥♥t on Trump for getting tough for those fuckers who don’t care about markets other than their own.
Chinese money provided by Chinese government subsidies.
If they are banned by the Chinese government they lose the money
Nice try but they just don’t want to make Winny Pooh angry
Its not capitalists’ fault the chinese are ultra-sensitive little bitches that start crying when you say Hong Kong or Taiwan or hell, even Japan. I wonder what could have created such little bitches – nah, no way… it wouldn’t be a chinese…. communist… party doing communist stuff in typical communist fashion or anything like that. Nahhh man, f♥♥k capitalism. *Posted as you enjoy growing up in capitalism*
Lying out his fuckin’ ass.
yeah, only morons would believe his excuses.
Exactly. Damage control.
Now… to watch the conflict of interests play out.
This is the Tweet of a guy who is saving skin over something he shouldnt be saving skin on.
A fucking liar who bends the knee to Tencents because he’d otherwise get lynched.
considering chinese population is around 15-18% of world population that makes them a great market for most companies.
President Pooh needs to be publicly executed and China needs to fall hard. I can deal with screeching idiots, but not with these sheep who are more than happy to follow their overlord’s every demand.