I'm sure they're gonna play some good street fighter in riyadh in a couple of weeks but I don't feel very enthused about mohammed bin salman's eSports extravaganza so I shan't be watching
I've felt kind of conflicted on this general subject before because like, sometimes the issue is framed as hosting an event in Saudi Arabia (or another gulf monarchy) and while there are definitely issues worth considering there I think the hard line that the esports world cup breaches is that it's directly a project of the Saudi state and the PIF. similarly I wouldn't want to touch any esports event sponsored by the US military with a ten foot pole, although that doesn't really come up in the FGC specifically
This was the easiest one i could find, but the Army has been poking around the fgc to recruit with more and more intrusive methods
