Alienware ends LoL Esports deal early due to Riot CEO allegations Yicun Liu\/Riot GamesDell-owned computer hardware company Alienware has confirmed they\u2019re terminating their deal with Riot Games due to allegations of sexual harassment surrounding the game developer\u2019s CEO Nicolo Laurent. Alienware are currently a global sponsor of League of Legends esports, supporting leagues and tournaments such as the LCS, LEC, LCK, LPL, Mid-Season Invitational, and World Championship. It\u2019s been stated that the deal was originally set to expire in January 2022 but the gaming hardware giants are reluctant to continue their association with Riot Games due to recent claims. The report from Dot Esports\u2019 Jacob Wolf claimed that Alienware were in discussions with the game developer to cancel the wide-spanning partnership as soon as possible. It was later confirmed by Dell themselves in a statement to The Esports Observer. \u201cDell is no longer a Riot Games sponsor,\u201d they said. Riot Games removed Alienware\u2019s logo from their League of Legends broadcasts last weekend, giving credence to the original report. It was revealed in February 2020 that Riot Games were investigating Laurent for gender discrimination and sexual harassment claims following a filed labor lawsuit. The case, filed by former Riot executive assistant Sharon O\u2019Donnell in January 2020, claims that she was wrongfully removed from work duties after declining sexual advances made by the company\u2019s head. \u201cAlienware has been a valuable partner to Riot since January 2019,\u201d Riot Games told Dot Esports. \u201cWe can\u2019t comment on our agreement with them at this time due to confidentiality obligations. As we continue discussions with them, we have removed their branding from our broadcasts.\u201d How it started How it’s going Celebrating Season 10 of @lolesports #Worlds2020 pic.twitter.com\/bShnRCCzgx \u2014 ALIENWARE (@Alienware) October 16, 2020 It was in January 2019 that Riot Games announced their multi-year partnership with Alienware that saw the company support League of Legends esports as its official \u201ccompetition PC and display partner.\u201d Their monitors and computers were utilized across the aforementioned competitions as part of the deal. It appears that Alienware will still have a presence in League of Legends. They\u2019re a prominent partner with LCS team Team Liquid, owning the naming rights to the org\u2019s facilities in Los Angeles and Utrecht, Netherlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Alienware ends LoL Esports deal early due to Riot CEO allegations Yicun Liu\/Riot GamesDell-owned computer hardware company Alienware has confirmed they\u2019re terminating their deal with Riot Games due to allegations of sexual harassment surrounding the game developer\u2019s CEO Nicolo Laurent. Alienware are currently a global sponsor of League of Legends esports, supporting leagues and tournaments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}