João D'Sousa Antunes 🤠✍️

✍️ Editor & TV Host @rtparena 🎮🎙️ Content Creator 💎 Nominated Esports Journalist 🏳️‍🌈⸸

[Ricardo F. Lima @MimeticLima]

há claramente uma correlação entre gajos que apreciam demasiado o ronaldo, seguidores do numeiro, eleitores do chega e tipos que te respondem com um "abre tu uma empresa", "vai lá cantar tu melhor" e "então vai tu treinar o Inter de Milheirós oh artista", na ficção de que as fundações da nação dependem de nunca mais se poder acusar o gajo da grelha de ter torrado o bife de modos a ter desonrado a vaquinha sem, pelo meio, ter aberto duas cervejarias, um quiosque e um sítio de pregos em Valbom chamado a "A Brasa do Vítor".

eu não consigo provar, mas há.

[João D'Sousa Antunes 🤠✍️ @commanderbonny]

@iamrufox @lplol_pt @The_EUniverse @lolesports Mereces! Tens posto o grind, o resultado está a aparecer e não tarda a voares para outros ares!

[João D'Sousa Antunes 🤠✍️ @commanderbonny]

@TheBwoffa Thank you for sharing your story 🙏

[Royal - Wild Rift @royalwinsmid]

Inspired by 82-0 but for League of Legends esports.

Draft your team from the most iconic league rosters. Can you win Worlds and complete the Golden Road? 🏆

https://t.co/zh77qhk1Io

[Sofia Guimarães ⋆𐙚 ̊. @sofiarguimaraes]

Hey everyone! 👋

I’ve just launched my YouTube channel where I’ll be doing interviews focused on VALORANT and League of Legends!!

I’m still learning and improving along the way, so I appreciate your patience and support, it really means a lot! 🫶

All interviews will be translated between English and Portuguese 💌

https://t.co/LZ0UsDXcq0

[João D'Sousa Antunes 🤠✍️ @commanderbonny]

@drewlevin Hey @drewlevin, just got this when closing the game (not dodging). I didn't even play an autofilled game today. Is this some UX/UI mistake, or does the system know my next game I'm going to play autofill?

[Drew Levin @drewlevin]

five stack league on voice remains undefeated, W @jynxzi for organizing, big congrats to the winners, and thank you to everyone for the backlog of clips to watch after long day of meetings

[League of Legends ES @lol_es]

Estamos ante la mejor imitación de Lillia de la historia.

📺 @andercortes

[João D'Sousa Antunes 🤠✍️ @commanderbonny]

@theumilk99 Sim

[Roald @roaldvanbuuren]

The future of esports will not be found in sports, with even sports leaving that behind.

Esports keeps dressing itself up like traditional sports; the jerseys, structured pro competitions (or worse, franchise leagues), the commentators in suits and broadcasts looking like the Premier League or NBA. I've said it all before; for years, the industry has believed that the way to be taken seriously is to look more like sports.

But isn't it ironic that sports itself is moving away from that model. Kings League and Baller League are not built on tradition, they are built on entertainment. They have turned football into a spectacle that lives as much on TikTok as it does on the pitch. Drafts become storylines, creators become main characters and rules are created with engagement. The match is just one piece of a much bigger show. Football in general has become hugely unsustainable with the vicious cycle of higher player salaries leading to clubs being forced to play more matches and tournaments, and the bubble of TV rights looking ripe for explosion, because who under 30 can afford a £80 Sky package?

Formula 1 is another example. Drive to Survive did more to grow its audience than any set of race results ever could. It turned faceless drivers going round and round into personalities, created narratives and brought the sports to the entertainment forefront. It's as much about the winner on Sunday as it is about the drama that lives off track.

Sports is shifting forward, because it has to. Younger audiences do not just want competition, they want culture and authenticity, they want formats that work on social media, narratives that feel alive and entertainment-first products.

Meanwhile, esports is stuck copying the past renditions of sports. We polish our broadcasts, we push the sports narrative of trophies and titles. This leads to weak loyalty and engagement. We are borrowing from a model that even sports no longer sees as the future. All the while esports should, and has the opportunity, to lead the way.

Esports was born in digital culture, on forums and LAN cafes and Twitch chat, but it has spent the last decade trying to professionalize into something it never was. Instead of leaning into the chaos, the creators, the community, we have tried to retrofit a model built for an audience that does not exist here. The result is that sports is borrowing from gaming to stay relevant, while gaming is stuck imitating sports’ past.

If esports feels stale right now, maybe this is why. Because the model it is chasing is already being left behind. The question is not how esports can become more like sports, but how it can create entertainment that feels authentic to gaming, the same way Kings League feels authentic to today's world and Drive to Survive feels authentic to F1.

Thoughts? (:

[João D'Sousa Antunes 🤠✍️ @commanderbonny]

@CostardEwen @EsportsCharts @MobileLegendsOL @LeagueOfLegends @CounterStrike @VALORANT @RocketLeague @hellcase First 3 months of the year

[Hackali @KevinHackali]

Looking for jobs in multiple areas since Esports is currently very harsh this year and unreliable. 🚨

Full/Part-time, also looking to invest in good projects and partnerships for my stream if I'm able to shift into it more often.

If you know anyone, please hit me up 🙏

[João D'Sousa Antunes 🤠✍️ @commanderbonny]

@ghazzMedia @rtparena Força nisso meu senhor, de certeza que vais trazer resultados positivos nos próximos projetos e qualquer coisa estou sempre aqui para te ajudar a aprender a jogar um jogo em condições (e outras coisas claro) 🫡

[RTP Arena @rtparena]

O @Archarom abriu o livro no RIFT de hoje para explicar o que se passou nos bastidores da NLC numa conversa picante 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Falamos ainda das skins de Worlds da T1, a influência do Faker, o adeus de Phreak ao LoL e a proteção de LP contra AFKs no Patch 26.7! 🛡️

[João D'Sousa Antunes 🤠✍️ @commanderbonny]

@itsBhT @marramgg Nunca na vida 🙂‍↔️

[Movistar KOI English @MovistarKOI_en]

All of Europe watching you play. Honor, brother. @G2League 🫂

[Ruddy Corporation @RuddyCorp]

[RANKING UPDATE]

Despite his team massively underperforming, Caps climbs to #3 on the Greatest White People of All Time list.

[GIANTX League of Legends @GIANTXLeague]

EU haters suddenly appearing on Twitter after a week of silence 🤫

[Marcin Jankowski @JankosLoL]

IT'S TIME

[Eva Cruzeiro @EvaCruzeiro]

Repito: são racistas e xenófobos.