xQc apologizes for skipping Chess tournament over Hikaru \u201canimosity\u201d Twitter, @xQc \/ Twitter, @GMHikaru[jwplayer 91I9RIGm]In a surprising twist to the heartwarming rise of Chess on Twitch, Felix \u2018xQc\u2019 Lengyel has had to apologize for sleeping through the PogChamps 2 tournament following \u201canimosity\u201d with Hikaru Nakamura. Soon after being signed to TSM, Chess GM Hikaru was part of TSM\u2019s losing effort in a Fall Guys tournament. Ever the joker, xQc teased about the organization\u2019s failings on stream, spurring a sequence of drama with Hikaru being offended, the Canadian feeling bad about offending him, subsequently skipping the PogChamps 2 tournament so that the two wouldn\u2019t need to interact, and, finally, him apologizing and clearing the air. As TSM struggled, sitting at 20th place in a Fall Guys Tournament, xQc joked on stream that \u201cTSM has got a lot of wins over the years, today is not a day that they will Tweet about getting a W.\u201d Annoyed over their performance, Hikaru saw the clip and was visibly disappointed, reacting by saying \u201cthis what it\u2019s come to, really? Following this uncomfortable quasi-interaction between the two, xQc was a no-show for the PogChamps 2 Chess tournament, understandably eliciting a negative reaction from Hikaru and the community. Another chess streamer, EasyWithAces, was not shy about voicing his annoyance: \u201cI don\u2019t care if he\u2019s the biggest streamer on Twitch \u2026 I hear that xQc didn\u2019t show. What a d**khead \u2026 That\u2019s rude as f**k.\u201d Eventually, the air was cleared and the drama was squashed. On his end, xQc explained on stream that Hikaru \u201clooked mad at me \u2026 and I felt really bad\u201d and did not want the chess pro to have to engage with him at all during a tournament \u201cwhile he had animosity or saw me differently.\u201d Further, in DMs shared by Hikaru on stream, xQc apologized personally and let him know that he \u201cf**ked up\u201d and that the TSM comments were simply \u201corg banter,\u201d which \u201chad nothing to do with [Hikaru].\u201d This all led to Hikaru, in turn, explaining his side and asserting that his initial response \u201cwas an overreaction, but that he \u201cis not mad at xQc whatsoever \u2026 there is no beef at all.\u201d To elaborate, he affirmed that the 24-year-old sleeping through one tournament pales in comparison to how much he has done for the popularity of Chess on Twitch. In the spirit of competition, xQc\u2019s match was actually postponed as PogChamps 2 decided to accommodate the scheduling snafu and he made amends by actually showing up for his match against \u2018itshafu.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
xQc apologizes for skipping Chess tournament over Hikaru \u201canimosity\u201d Twitter, @xQc \/ Twitter, @GMHikaru[jwplayer 91I9RIGm]In a surprising twist to the heartwarming rise of Chess on Twitch, Felix \u2018xQc\u2019 Lengyel has had to apologize for sleeping through the PogChamps 2 tournament following \u201canimosity\u201d with Hikaru Nakamura. Soon after being signed to TSM, Chess GM Hikaru was […]<\/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-65066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65066","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=65066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}