Thorin Roasts Fortnite and FACEIT London Major During Stockholm Esports Awards Controversial analyst Duncan \u2018Thorin\u2019 Shields was in attendance at the Stockholm International Esports Awards, and took a moment to throw a few hilarious digs at FACEIT\u2019s CSGO London Major and the Fortnite community. With Thorin not invited to work on the analysts desk at the Major, the \u2018Esports Historian\u2019 used an interview with host Frankie Ward to take a few quick jabs at the event. Thorin began by stating that he could work on DOTA 2\u2019s The International, because \u201cthey hire a lot of talent these days\u201d. Then, while discussing esports\u2019 past, he joked \u201cI am part of history now\u201d. When asked about his vision for the future of esports, Shields took a direct shot at the FACEIT Major, saying; \u201cI just want to see esports get bigger, but crucially, better. Let\u2019s not water it down or hire people who don\u2019t deserve to be hired. Don\u2019t know why I keep mentioning that, just on my mind at the moment\u2026 I might make an appearance. Any scalpers got a ticket? No? Nobody\u2019s going anyway, are they?\u201d Thorin, however, wasn\u2019t content with just roasting the FACEIT Major, but also took aim at the popular battle royale game Fortnite\u2019s community. Asked whether he thought Fortnite would make a good esport, Shield simply replied with; \u201cI\u2019m not 12 so I\u2019ve never played that game.\u201d Shields has been a regular feature of CS:GO analysis desks since 2013. He worked at a total of six majors in the past but hasn\u2019t featured at one of the Valve sponsored events since the ELEAGUE Atlanta Major in 2017. The Brit hasn\u2019t shied away from criticizing FACEIT\u2019s handling of the London Major in the months running up to the event and even released a video titled \u201cFACEIT\u2019s Troubling Handling of the Major Thusfar\u201d where he aired some of his grievances. While Thorin may not be working at FACEIT\u2019s London Major, it will be interesting if he does indeed make an appearance at the event, which kicks off on Wednesday, September 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thorin Roasts Fortnite and FACEIT London Major During Stockholm Esports Awards Controversial analyst Duncan \u2018Thorin\u2019 Shields was in attendance at the Stockholm International Esports Awards, and took a moment to throw a few hilarious digs at FACEIT\u2019s CSGO London Major and the Fortnite community. With Thorin not invited to work on the analysts desk at […]<\/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-39204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39204","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=39204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}