Popular content creator and LCS team co-owner Charles Christopher ‘MoistCr1TiKaL’ White Jr. has pleaded with Riot to interact with more streamers to save the NA region.
Fellow content creator Nicholas ‘Jynxzi’ Stewart held a 40-streamer LoL tournament, which was watched by over 900k people, proving that LoL is still going strong 16 years after its release.
This made Jynxi’s event the fourth-most-watched LoL tournament of 2026 so far, clearing the LCS Lock-In’s peak of just under 185k and the 238k that watched the Americas Cup.
Now, MoistCr1TiKaL, co-owner of Shopify Rebellion along with streamer Ludwig Ahren, says Riot needs to lean more into this type of event, “If they want this region to survive.”
“Bro the LCS needs this desperately. NA has been needing something like this,” he added.
MoistCr1TiKaL Blasts The LCS
Speaking about the dying interest of the LCS, MoistCr1TiKaL also lamented the lack of local talent in the LCS:
“I’m also pretty sure there are more NA players in this (Jynxzi tournament) than the actual LCS.”
Out of the 41 players currently in the LCS, only 13 are from the United States or Canada, while 17 are from South Korea.
It could potentially become only 12 active NA players soon if Dhokla is benched by new LYON signing Castle rather than the pair sharing the role.
He also criticised Riot’s handling of the region:
“The fact of the matter is, NA needs this. Jynxzi has come in like an angel to the LCS because the LCS has been kind of a joke in the actual competitive circuit.
“They’ve been getting clowned a lot on for a while, they had the whole LTA thing, which got clowned on and went back to the LCS.”
Riot’s Big Opportunity
After a chatter said, “Actually insane they’re giving away a League skin, only give like icons for their own esports,” Moist replied:
“This is a really big opportunity for them, so it looks like they’re really trying to get in on it. I hope this will be the start of them being more receptive to this kind of thing and supporting active streamers doing things like this more often.”
MoistCr1iKaL then further stressed that Riot needs to give fans a reason to tune into the LCS:
“It’s been in a tough spot, something like this is huge for the region, so obviously they’re going to lean into it pretty hard. I’m wondering, well hoping, that they will keep this synergy up and do like viewer rewards for active NA League streamers.
“That would be huge. This would be a nice precedent if this is them starting to finally figure out that they need to support the region to actually get people excited. How do you do that? You have fun stuff, you give them fun stuff, you get them invested.”
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Meanwhile, European League of Legends has also been given a boost with LEC Roadtrips showing LoL esports’ full potential.
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