Excel Esports’ Dutch pro League of Legends player Markoon (pictured) has been accused of stream sniping by popular Canadian streamer Tarzaned.
Both junglers have been separately playing on the Korean League of Legends server lately, and came across one another on opposing teams.
Markoon locked in Wukong, and Tarzaned said it was because Markoon had been stream sniping him and wanted to take Tarzaned’s main champion away. The implication was that Markoon would not have picked Wukong otherwise.
Markoon responded in the Twitter thread: “Why would I ghost your jungle pathing, it’s so obvious, I’m completely in your head. Stay stuck in Plat Korea.
“It’s definitely not a jungler that recently became meta, which has been getting picked in my scrims and which I played for the past four hours.”
The comments have been ongoing the past couple of days, with Tarzaned now challenging Markoon to ‘any solo queue bet’:
A Reddit thread was created about Tarzaned accusing Markoon of stream sniping.
Some accused Tarzaned of having an ego to make such statements, while others said Markoon was doing things to wind him up in the game, like spamming emotes.
You can see some vod clips here and here, and the full VoD on Tarzaned Twitch channel, which has had almost a quarter of a million views at the time of writing this article.
Markoon is a ‘rookie’ League of Legends player with plenty of potential. Markoon was promoted from the Excel Esports academy team to their LEC first team, along with support player Advienne, last summer.
Markoon went on to help Excel Esports secure their first LEC playoffs spot earlier this year, while Advienne was replaced by Mikyx before eventually moving to Giants Gaming.
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
