I used to watch XQC quite a bit on Twitch because I’m a Winston main and he was one of the very few high-level players, or maybe the only high-level player, who streamed Winston gameplay (this was before the current dive-centric meta). I never saw him intentionally throw but I did eventually stop watching just because…

Something important to note in all of this:

The, “I never asked to be a role model/hero/what have you” argument certainly feels like it should be salient, and it’s true, up to a point—sports figures of all stripes, traditional, e-sport, or otherwise, only ever asked for an opportunity to do what they do at a very high…