MrBeast could organize a tournament on League of Legends soon

If you don’t know Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson, you probably haven’t spent much time on YouTube in the past few years. The North American Youtuber is simply one of the platform’s best-known creators and counts almost 97 million subscribers on its main channel. He posts videos ooffering colossal sums of money for the simple achievement of challenges.

If we talk about him today, it’s not for his video where he reproduces the Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory but good becausehe has just teased on his Twitter account a tournament organized on League of Legends. If this announcement may seem surprising, the Youtuber had already expressed his interest in the MOBA a few months ago where he declared “want to» a League of Legends team. So if this quest to obtain a team requires a lot of money, it mainly requires legitimacy with Riot Games to get a team in the LCS, which probably needs to be MrBeast’s target.

In fact, he must forge this credibility by getting more involved in the competitive game scene and this can go through the creation of content and events around LoL. If his tweet where he announces his event remains vague, we are waiting for more details about him, whether it is its format, the participants and especially the date on which it could take place. To note that the official LoL Esports account replied to MrBeast’s tweet which could suggest that Riot Games is aware of and above all has a role in this event. To be continued…