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Marvel Rivals‘ $300,000 Creator World Championship finished last weekend with Team Canada placing last and their teammate Warn drawing most of the blame for it.
The tournament ran June 26-29 and brought together 12 teams from around the world to compete for a slice of a $300,000 prize pool.
Team Canada, which included xQc, aramori, Dokibird, Fanfan, and Surefour alongside Warn, placed 9th-12th and took home $12,000, while Team AMER United claimed first place and the $75,000 that came with it. The real story, though, began after the final buzzer.
Team Canada’s $300,000 Marvel Rivals tournament falls apart over hero swap drama
Warn, a Twitch streamer, confirmed his invitation came with only a few days’ notice and that he spent the time practicing his mains, Squirrel Girl and Namor.
A clip then circulated appearing to show him attributing the team’s losses to FanFan, Dokibird, and aramori while crediting past wins to himself and xQc alone. He later said the clip was taken out of context and that his comments had “nothing to do with them being women.”
His teammates disputed how seriously he engaged with the team’s strategy. Aramori, who captained the side, wasn’t buying it. She posted on X that she didn’t “want to sit here and let Warn act like ‘woe is me she was so mean,’” and made the Squirrel Girl issue explicit, writing, “my bad next time I’ll tell you it’s not your fault for picking Squirrel Girl over and over.”
She then invoked the Zazzastack incident from earlier this year, when a player refused to swap off Black Widow in a $40,000 creator tournament and cost her team momentum in the process.
“I GOT ZAZZA’D IN A TOURNAMENT 10X THE PRIZE POOL AS BASIM,” she wrote. “KINGSMAN WAS SO MUCH MEANER AND GOT A BAJILLION FOLLOWERS.” The reference was pointed: the community’s reaction to that situation had been swift and ferocious, and aramori was noting that Warn was getting considerably softer treatment for a comparable offense.
Warn pushed back on the idea that one player’s hero choice collapsed the whole team. Posts tracking the squad’s stats showed xQc went 2-6 on tank, aramori went 3-5 on Jeff, FanFan went 1-4, and Dokibird went 2-4, and Warn’s position was that it was a team loss rather than one person’s failure.
This isn’t the first time a Marvel Rivals creator event has ended with more post-game fallout than scoreboard discussion. You can read our full breakdown of the Kingsman265 situation that turned “Zazza” into a verb, and if you want to know how that one resolved, Kingsman ended up doing considerably better out of it than anyone might have expected.
