Canadian content creator xQc hosted a competitive Marvel Rivals tournament for fellow streamers last weekend which featured the game’s largest prize pool yet with $250k (£190k) on the line.
However, this prize pool will soon be beaten by the recently announced Marvel Rivals Ignite esports event, a global tournament with a total prize pool of over $3m (£2.24m).
As well as hosting the event and competing in it, xQc also commentated on most of the games alongside two esports casters he knows very well from his Overwatch League days, Mitch ‘Uber’ Leslie and Matt ‘Mr X’ Morello.
Speaking after the event, Uber asked xQc if he’d continue casting Marvel Rivals and xQc said he’d “love to cast anything” but he admitted he struggled at times, as you can see in the clip below.
The tournament featured a lot of big names with xQc himself acting as a team captain alongside another former Overwatch pro turned streamer supertf, former Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pros Summit1g and Shroud, former Valorant pro TenZ, and highly ranked Marvel Rivals streamer Necros.
The captains drafted the remaining competing streamers to form the teams. In that pool were three British influencers, LydiaViolet (526k Twitch followers), MrRoflWaffles (135k Twitch followers) and Sweet Anita (1.9m Twitch followers) who has tourettes syndrome and has ranked as one of the top female streamers on Twitch.
Sweet Anita was drafted by Necros onto the eventual winning team alongside GURU, Noko, Aspen, and Pikaboo.
All six teams played each other once in best-of-ones to determine the seeding for the bracket stage, which featured best-of-one quarter and semi-finals before a best-of-three final.
Impressively, Team Necros went through the entire tournament without dropping a single game, defeating Team Shroud 2-0 in the final.
Speaking to her chat after the win, Sweet Anita was delighted saying: “Oh my god, (what an) amazing team! I lucked out so much.
“I can’t believe how well that went. This is so amazing, this is the best thing that’s happened to me in so long. I got so lucky.”
Following the victory, some members of Team Necros joked they were now Marvel Rivals esports’ top earners after receiving a $125k (£95k) to split amongst themselves (over £15k each).
While of course not a sanctioned event, their winnings will soon be overtaken in any case by the game’s first major tournament, Ignite, which takes place later this month and has now had more details confirmed.
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