Slightly greater than two years after esports giants Cloud9 signed League of Legends professional Christian “IWillDominate” Rivera as a streamer and content material creator, his tenure has ended. The group confirmed his departure on Wednesday, Dec. 22.
“What a tremendous two years it has been,” Cloud9 wrote on Twitter. “Thanks for all the time retaining us entertained, out of your co-streams to your spicy takes. Better of luck together with your subsequent journey.”
IWillDominate stated he’s planning to place out a video explaining why it occurred, however assured followers he left on good phrases and the group handled him properly throughout his stint with them. His messaging got here after followers claimed his cut up was ”an issue.”
Will put out a video detailing why this needed to occur in per week or so, simply know I parted on good phrases with C9 and so they have been good to me your entire time. If the panorama of streaming adjustments sooner or later then I could possibly be again with C9 sooner or later! https://t.co/mDsXaYzqYz
— Christian Rivera (@IWDominate) December 22, 2022
In response to a number of followers, IWillDominate talked about it on stream (the VOD is locked to non-subscribers) and claimed Twitch compelled his hand after reducing advert income as a result of he was affiliated with an esports group. Cloud9 apparently tried to barter with the Amazon heavyweights, however they wouldn’t budge. So, moderately than letting him lose cash, C9 and IWD mutually determined it was in his finest pursuits to maneuver on.
This ties into IWD’s assertion about them parting methods on good phrases.
Dom talked about it on stream and its no c9’s fault, its really twitch’s. Twitch is mainly reducing a bunch of dom’s advert cash as a result of he is with an esports org and dom is dropping more cash from that than he makes on c9. C9 tried to get it mounted however twitch would not budge.
— James Imai (@808runnah) December 22, 2022
It’ll be fascinating to see what IWillDominate says concerning the scenario as soon as he releases the video releases.
Twitch has been criticized for the way they go about splitting advert income with creators earlier than. They maintain making adjustments to enhance it, however IWillDominate’s scenario sounds tough.
It’s been six years since IWD moved into content material creation. Earlier than turning into a full-time streamer, his professional League profession spanned six years from 2010 to 2016, and 4 groups, together with Haters, compLexity Gaming, Workforce Curse, and Workforce Liquid. He by no means gained something however completed second twice, third 4 instances, and fourth thrice, netting $30,000 in prize cash. Throughout his profession he turned out in as many as 175 video games.
He retired after taking part in one recreation for Liquid within the 2016 NA LCS Spring Break up, however stayed with the group for 4 extra years earlier than signing with Cloud9 in 2020.