Tim Baleno | AirneanachTV

Do Justice, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly, Play Videogames | Owner of @plat_esports | StarCraft/StarCraft 2 caster | Host of Chat StarLeague

[Tim Baleno | AirneanachTV @BalenoTim]

What’s even better is that both of them are planning on coming to OKC to battle it out in person! And of course have some great food after! Make sure you guys take a look!

[Ahmad ‘SCHistorian’ Ali @SC2Historian]

I was not aware how sick this upcoming Brood War event was going to be! $5000 up for grabs, legends like @Artosis and @Retjah competing! Unreal stuff. I think I'll have to try and make this one.

[Tim Baleno | AirneanachTV @BalenoTim]

Based on most LGS stores reporting? About none lol.
#MTGxStarTrek

[Magic: The Gathering @wizards_magic]

How much Star Trek can you fit into one night of Magic? You’re about to find out. #MTGxStarTrek #StarTrek60

[Tim Baleno | AirneanachTV @BalenoTim]

There are more people in this photo than many stores had players for prerelease events this weekend….
#MTGxStarTrek

[Josh Lee Kwai @JoshLeeKwai]

Hangin’ w/ Spock and Scotty on the Bridge of the USS Gathering at the #MTGxStarTrek event Friday night.

[Tim Baleno | AirneanachTV @BalenoTim]

When people ask why I run esports tournaments.

#N7Day

[Tim Baleno | AirneanachTV @BalenoTim]

If you want to support esports that has no interest in censoring our players or staff, and isn’t taking Saudi money, we’re always looking for support. Everything we’ve done has been from my own pocket and community support. Consider checking out https://t.co/8MKR2390E4

[Tim Baleno | AirneanachTV @BalenoTim]

As someone who runs an esports org, I couldn’t imagine cutting someone for their opinions just because I disagree with them. Especially when you’re taking a lot of money from people who share similar opinions but it’s ok because they give you money. @Plat_Esports would never.

[Alexander PCs @AlexanderPCS]

We believe @G2esports G2 Esports has made a grave mistake in terminating its relationship with Perkz over his publicly expressed personal convictions.

“Diversity” must include diversity of thought, belief, and opinion.

You do not have to share someone’s religious, political, or moral convictions to respect their right to hold them. The true measure of tolerance is how we treat people with whom we disagree.

G2 had an opportunity to demonstrate mature, principled leadership by acknowledging those differences without demanding ideological conformity. Instead, it chose exclusion while invoking the very principles of diversity and inclusion that should encourage mutual respect.

An organization that cannot tolerate disagreement within its own ranks is not demonstrating strength, progress, or inclusivity. It is demonstrating an inability to navigate differences with maturity and professionalism.

Tolerance that extends only to those who agree with you is not tolerance. It is conformity masquerading as virtue.

We believe G2 should expect better of its leadership, its organization, and the values it claims to represent.

Weak, pathetic behavior by G2.

[Tim Baleno | AirneanachTV @BalenoTim]

Japanorama in theaters while I’m in the Netherlands. Now hide and seek in theaters during SC4ALL. I’m truly cursed

[Nebula @WatchNebula]

See you at the movies

[Ahmad ‘SCHistorian’ Ali @SC2Historian]

SC4ALL: II Venue Change Announcement!

We are thrilled to announce that SC4ALL: II will take place in the historic Founder’s Hall at Girard College. Since 1847 Founder’s Hall has stood as a monument to community, a testament to history, and a training ground for the future. 1/2

[Tim Baleno | AirneanachTV @BalenoTim]

@Back2Warcraft When do you add the sc2 feature that lets people take over ladder games?

[Tim Baleno | AirneanachTV @BalenoTim]

@Joe_LoGuidice It’ll be awesome to see you again!

[Simon Heijnen @LowkoTV]

Lowkey StarCraft II is the most goated game ever

[Tim Baleno | AirneanachTV @BalenoTim]

Ah yes, Freeze of Shanghai was a classic way to separate the 360 players from the XBONE players. Take out the tower and watch half the lobby disconnect as their consoles crashed. 10/10 the most fun I had in battlefield.

[Game Base @GameBaseDaily]

On this day in 2013, Battlefield 4 was released

[Yagami @yagami2428]

I was with @AlQadsiahES from 2024 to mid 2026 and have not received any prize money earned during that time, including @EWC_EN 2024/2025 prize money totalling over 60k alone. This is on top of all the other money they owe for reimbursements

Been repeatedly told that they are working on processing it and will pay everything soon, but at this point it has been far too long

This is unacceptable and you need to pay your players now @AlQadsiahES @Alqadsiah @aramco @AlQadsiahEN

Likes and RT appreciated

[Tim Baleno | AirneanachTV @BalenoTim]

It’s stories like this that ruin esports in the public eye. How hard is it to just pay your people? If I can manage to do it with the scraps I have, the Saudis should be able to afford it for sure.

[Brownman ✈️ TGU 🇹🇭 @BrownmanFgc]

WE ARE OWED OVER $100,000 USD
by Saudi Arabian Esports team @AlQadsiahES!

@yagami2428, @THEJON07 & myself are owed over $100,000 USD between us, comprising of prize money, salaries and reimbursements extending as far back as mid-2024.

This total does not even include the many people from the fighting game department and other games, that have also experienced these persistent issues and who remain unpaid.

This situation is unacceptable and contributes to the increasingly poor reputation of the Saudi & Middle East based organizations.
If an @aramco owned organization, can fail so completely, then what hope is there for others?

Every possible effort has been made to resolve the matter directly with the team for unreasonably long period of time. Not a single amicle outcome was presented by the organization. We were only met with excuses, stalling tactics and complete disregard for the severity of the circumstances, eventuating in just being flat-out ignored.

Promises were made constantly but never kept and communication was near non-existent.
Not only did @AlQadsiahES not meet their payment obligations to the players and staff, but they were an organizational mess. Failing to properly support players in nearly every way possible, travel, visas, expenses, branding, social media.
Absolutely embarrasing.

One of the few outliers who always did their best for the players and staff he was responsible for, was @Haohken. We worked together closely, sharing the workload of over four different roles, but even he could only do so much when his hands were tied by the higher ups.

We continued performing our contractual obligations in good faith, whilst being beyond patient. Expecting improvement in the infrastructure of the teams, departments and the organization overall, as this was continually promised.

There's a lot more that is to be said regarding these circumstances, including threats and attempts to silence players from speaking out publicly regarding their treatment.

It's time that responsiblity is taken:
@AlQadsiahES @Al_Qadsiah @AlQadsiahEN
@aramco

[Tim Baleno | AirneanachTV @BalenoTim]

I can’t imagine having worse faces for AI than people like @sama who clearly are so out of touch with the average person they think the nonsense they spew is correct.

[morgan — @morqon]

sam: local inference is a terrible allocation of scarce resources

“a lot of people want local inference, and somehow they assume that the problem is solved now because we have open-source models, we're going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we're not going to need all the stuff in the data centre

but from a global allocation perspective, actually it's quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time

you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you're trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment

somehow many people's intuition is the opposite of that”

[ZombieGrub @ZGGaming]

wtf @SOOP_EN just gave out copyright strikes to any video with what, GSL in the title? And including something like my talk show which just included GSL in the title? My channel now has two copyright strikes and is one away from being taken down now.

[Jared 'PiG' Krensel @x5_PiG]

Imagine getting this in your email as a content creator...

@SOOP_EN pls explain why you have copyright striked every video with "GSL" in the title? Some of these don't even have GSL games in them, just in the title

My channels will be terminated unless you retract your error

[Tim Baleno | AirneanachTV @BalenoTim]

@TaKeSeN @davetesta @SCJaedong Brood war at HSC? 👀

[Tim Baleno | AirneanachTV @BalenoTim]

13 hours into the 24 hour stream @ATT decides its time to give up for the day. Why do I even bother having a UPS when their nodes just go down instead?

[Ahmad ‘SCHistorian’ Ali @SC2Historian]

We are so pleased to announce our collaboration with @HarrisburgU! Through collaboration with their Esports Management Program, Professor @theresagaffney has played a key role as an advisor to SC4ALL.

[Ahmad ‘SCHistorian’ Ali @SC2Historian]

The moment you’ve all been waiting for, the man the masses are here to see… It is with great pleasure and humility I announce that @andrewcaviston is entering the ring in Philadelphia for StarCraft 2 at SC4ALL: II. Witness greatness, December 5-6. #SC4YOU #SC4ME #SC4ALL