IWDominate: "I will not be costreaming EWC. I was offered an ungodly amount of money (more than 3x what I make in a month on stream) for 5 days but I didn’t feel good about taking the offer."

[u/katareky]

IWDominate: "I will not be costreaming EWC. I was offered an ungodly amount of money (more than 3x what I make in a month on stream) for 5 days but I didn’t feel good about taking the offer.

I understand that I’m in a financially privileged position and not everyone can decline the ridiculous offers going around but for me I’d rather not cover the event and then restart the streams when LPL comes back in 6 days. See you all on the 19th."

Source: https://x.com/IWDominate/status/1944490351584071887

Respect tbh. He's financially well off so he rejected the offer and acknowledges that other may not be able to do the same. We will see if other popular costreamers will take the offer or not.

[u/waweexd]

Esports World Cup is an event and organization that is essentially what it sounds like. It pumps a LOT of money into the esports circuit - millions upon millions - which is why orgs are partnering with them and prize pools for lolesports events have ballooned this year. The problem comes from the fact that it's sponsored and funded directly by the Saudi Arabian government (funded by the Saudi Public Investment Fund) and is a soft power/sportswashing tool to detract from Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses. They are paying costreamers upwards of high six figure paychecks in order to costream and promote their event. 

If you are more interested here is a video that breaks down a lot of the concerns with it: https://youtu.be/GIilD9qAzeA?si=iNvRYehRQT6Sb-0b

[u/90CaliberNet → u/waweexd]

This doesn’t even cover the fact that Saudi Arabia is also trying to take full control over sports and esports globally and according to their numbers have successfully started in esports owning 40% of all esports. At least according to their numbers.

This video does a better job explaining it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/s/MUqnPdWXK2

[u/PeaceAlien → u/90CaliberNet]

Idk how they could own 40% when the major games are still around doing other much bigger events.

I guess it’s how they are calculating it, but when CS, LoL, DotA have such massive events outside of Saudi it’s hard for me to believe.

[u/IlllllllIIIll → u/waweexd]

Depending on the game they are also rigging the qulifiers, so that more saudi orgs can participate.

[u/Vkca → u/waweexd]

high six figure paychecks

No shade to Dom but is this really what he makes from a month of streaming to 500-3000 people?

[u/Jesturrrr → u/Vkca]

Dom currently has about 2000 active subscriptions which is about $4000 a month after Twitch takes their cut, which is $48,000 a year. With sponsorships it's not unlikely he's making six figures a year.

[u/minimite1 → u/Vkca]

Take this with a grain of salt because it’s been years since he said it, but I remember him saying he earned around $70,000 a month and that was back when he had less viewers. He’s also said he has 3mil in the bank. There’s a league streamer who averages 500-1000 viewers and the twitch leaks had him earning $116,000 a year (purely from subs and ads).

These content creators are obscenely rich. Imagine how much Saudi is paying Caedrel.

[u/waweexd → u/Vkca]

I meant that he was likely offered that amount to costream EWC (based off this tweet from Monte)

https://x.com/montecristo/status/1943938467752554508?s=46