Ken Chen @Hot_Bid Twitter profile

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

1 year

evidence BTS literally put the smash community in jeopardy

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@Hot_Bid

1 year

Finally had a lawyer look at the NDA I signed with Panda and apparently it only applies to "parcel(s) of real estate" ?? LMAO Maybe a bad copy paste? Or used a template and didn't change it? It's not just mine that's messed up either. If you signed one, double check it lol

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this should go without saying but pls don't pressure anyone to speak out if they are under NDA I did so after determining what I was sharing was learned independent of my conversation with Alan and that anything I shared didn't fall under the NDA not everyone has that luxury

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Liquid | Riddles

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I dont want to sound too grumpy here but one thing I keep thinking about that really disappointed me at summit was really the lack of grinding from a lot of players. A lot of the time set ups were empty and more people watched than actually played

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

1 year

dont blame yourselves smash community always been terrible at spotting mafia

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@Hot_Bid

1 year

I'm framing this

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

1 year

Hard to taking this 32 pager seriously, but since I was called out, I'll respond in a thread. Here's me talking to Alan about how running to Nintendo and banging on doors about broadcast rights is potentially an existential threat to the entire scene (cut off in his screenshot):

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

4 years

lmao

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

2 years

I'm proud to announce that in July, I'll be joining @Teamliquid as their Executive Director of Content & Creative. I'll be responsible for their production, post, and creative teams, and also help guide their content and brand direction.

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

3 years

lmao fuck covid melee is back

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

2 years

Netflix announces new American esports documentary "Mango vs Hbox" set to release in 2024

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

2 years

June is my last month at Beyond the Summit. It was not an easy decision to leave -- my job here felt crafted specifically for me, and in more ways than one it was almost perfect. I will miss everyone here and I am so, so proud of everything we've achieved together.

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

1 year

I personally won't ever watch, support, or attend a panda organized or broadcasted event ever again. No disrespect to the players or employees that work there, I know it's not your fault.

Smash World Tour 2022

@SmashWorldTour

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The upcoming Smash World Tour Championships and the entirety of the 2023 Smash World Tour must be cancelled. Full Story:

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@LiquidSalem @MikeHazeGaming @theSirToasty

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

3 years

I wrote about Summit and my history with Smash:

Smash Summit and me

I’m Ken Chen, Creative Director at BTS. In addition to leading our creative department and strategy, I am in charge of all of our first…

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@Hot_Bid

5 years

thats a lot of viewers for a game released in 2001

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@Hot_Bid

8 years

Envy's Ember is so good he put a remnant into the crowd to clap for himself

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

4 years

"hope this helps"

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

4 years

My story about being assaulted Read:

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

4 years

@KeitaroTime do you realize that you actually just admitted to statutory rape in a fucking twitlonger? you even have in here that you knew she was a drunk 16/17 what the hell is this man it doesn't matter if she "gave you signals"

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

1 year

sad for melee, for tft, for dota, for everyone that was affected by the BTS shutdown announcement today sad that something beautiful we all help make is just gone if we've worked together (coworker, partner, anything) let's talk, if just to reminisce a bit

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

4 years

Since we do so much work in melee, a lot of our staff who never played the game started picking it up. Tomorrow is our first ever BTS internal staff melee tournament, for players who have never been to / entered a local. They've all basically started playing a month or two ago

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

2 years

poker pros running cold while mr beast allins with random cards and losing it to other content creators is so fucking funny the pure salt and envy, hellmuth/keating down huge, botez up 500k, 10/10 stream

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Ken Chen

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1 year

I've read all your messages, thanks for all the support everyone, been a wild 24 hours but very heartwarming for me. To the smash community specifically, you all are real ones and we will find a way, we always have.

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

3 years

super smash bros melee

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

1 year

SWT cancelled Nintendo pr spokesperson:

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@Hot_Bid

1 year

Also here's us predicting this drama and situation happening in March, which is why I didn't speak out earlier about this whole thing. I did not want the entire community/Panda as an org to suffer. (screenshot from slack)

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

1 year

To all Panda Global employees, I'm sorry this guy happened to you. For those that are departing, I hope you find good homes elsewhere. You don't deserve to have your careers and the brand you built destroyed by one person.

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

3 years

Year is 2035, Smash Bros Super Fighter Extra 16 is released Somewhere, a social media person grimly logs online and thinks to themselves: "Maybe today is the day those fuckers run out of hashtags" Probably not tho #SaveSmash

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

5 years

2019: toxic dota players banned for 19 years 2025: regional dota watch formed; players vow to train single draft 2030: people doubt the existence of the army of toxicity; only SEA still has a functioning single draft watch 2038: EE returns as the night king

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

1 year

TLDR if you dont have enough time to read SWT statement

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

1 year

this guy runs Genesis

boback

@boba_ck

1 year

i got some shit to say, Not going into detail, but from the very first moment Alan opened his mouth to the last time we spoke, nothing but snake like sounds could be heard, like that shit in harry potter.

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

1 year

To be clear, I did not yell or explode at Alan AT ALL. He was extremely hostile and exhausting to talk to. In fact, part of the reason I left BTS to join TeamLiquid in June was because I never wanted to deal with Alan or Panda again. I confided this to multiple people as I left.

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

7 years

PUBG esports would be more fun if the players had to actually parachute in and put together a PC by looting parts scattered around the venue

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

1 year

Panda themselves issued a statement saying they regret Alan threatening BTS yet he completely denies it happens here. I don't accept your apology because even here you don't actually apologize, you even say "except Ken" and only admit the conversation was "percevied" wrong.

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@Hot_Bid

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

2 years

Smh 40 setups for 16 players and barely anyone grinding nobody loves the game anymore

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

3 years

Hope everyone enjoyed this event, it means a lot to us here at BTS. It's an uncertain time for events in smash. Rest assured that as long as I'm at BTS, we will fight for smash and for melee. Glad to work with so many great and passionate people. See everyone next event :)

Beyond the Smash

@BTSsmash

3 years

Thank you for joining us for #SmashSummit 10. We hope you had as much of a blast as we did this week 🥰 UNTIL NEXT TIME... 👋💙

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Ken Chen

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1 year

This next screenshot is nuts. I have no idea how to respond to this, been running smash events for 8 years. I've been a part of many communities, including StarCraft and Dota, and I think my relationships and track record speaks for itself.

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

5 years

Melee community the task is simple

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

2 years

10 game llod hbox grand finals still in play

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

1 year

In the call that Alan threatened BTS multiple times, I reported the threats as the call was happening and directly after to @LDeeep -- my boss at the time. LD was not on the call, but was there as I typed a transcript of it on slack. Here's a screenshot of me doing just that:

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

1 year

Working at Beyond the Summit was one of the most important and rewarding experiences of my life. There are too many events and content pieces to count, but I'm so proud of everything we accomplished. The team there is capable, hungry, and extremely talented. Hire them.

LD

@LDeeep

1 year

If you work for a production company, esports org, or other group that is hiring, please consider hiring from our amazing team. I can personally vouch for each and every one of them. I'll continue updating this list as our people consent.

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Ken Chen

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1 year

I have not been "publicly and privately turning people against Panda for months" -- I've simply been telling the honest story of what happened. Which was threats and bullying that Panda, his own org, even admitted to happening.

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

5 years

@LiquidSalem @MikeHazeGaming @theSirToasty totally agree i dont think empire strikes back is part of star wars either because i dont like its fans and i dont like the films technical prowess

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

1 year

Alan's account of the entire situation with BTS is so disjointed and riddled with lies it's difficult to respond. I don't even know where to start with it. This conversation transcript he posted with me is just not what happened, full stop. Not even close. Seriously, wtf.

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

1 year

BTS "refused to collaborate" with Alan largely because of his conduct, not because of me. I simply reported the exact truth of the conversation, which LD and other BTS leadership can verify happened right after the call with Alan in March.

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

3 years

lsd is out here dropping knowledge on commentary in front of 40k viewers, being enthusiastic and fun during mafia, and having a great mentality about competition and life this is exactly the kind of personality we want out of a summit competitor, makes our job as producers easy

BLE | Logan

@naturalworlder

3 years

If you think I'm cringe, you're probably right but I'm openly and honestly expressing myself and I think that's braver than being mean to people behind a screen. I'm a socially awkward nerd but that's not anything to shame myself over. Improving every day. :)

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

1 year

I am not some crazy boogeyman trying to take Panda down. I'm someone that cares about the smash scene and knew this exact situation would play out like it did. The reason I didn't say shit since MARCH (when BTS was threatened) was precisely because I didn't want to blow this up.

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

1 year

As for the NDA talking about real estate, an absolutely hilarious thing to include in this, I'm more than willing to post the entire NDA if Panda allows me to. Multiple people have confirmed thier NDAs have the real estate language in it. It's just a failed copy-paste job.

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

1 year

When we first invited Alan to come to Summit and talk about the Panda Cup circuit in November 2021, the first thing out of his mouth was about how SWT was going to get shut down. Dozens of people heard it, and many can corroborate this.

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

1 year

😂

Grayola

@Grayolaa

1 year

confirming mine also has this language... HOW DID THEY LET THIS HAPPEN LMFAOOOOOO

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

5 years

Mfw I might cast grand finals but nobody in the stadium can understand me

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

4 years

the idea that stephen king sat there trying to understand a tekken balance whine makes me laugh so much lol

Stephen King

@StephenKing

4 years

@MykeCole Strange. Interesting. Tantalizing.

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

3 years

@aidencalvin We have run over 15 smash summits, multiple online leagues, and helped broadcast dozens of events big and small, how many more do we need to do to get a "part of the community" license do I have to pull up my slp folder again

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@Hot_Bid

2 years

SAVED THIS FOR EIGHT YEARS THE JAMES 2GD HARDING ROOKIE CARD

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

11 months

amsa once called our event "the greatest disappointment of his life" and then threatened to burn down the venue

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@KoDoRiNSSB

11 months

Every time i ask amsa what I can do better after every set I lose against him, he spits on my face and maniacally laughs saying that I missed my window to beat him ever again. kinda a dick move ngl

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Ken Chen

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1 year

I wasn't "trying to get TOs to turn on [Panda]" -- they privately complained about Alan constantly to me. I'll let the other TOs say their own story about it, but at some point dealing with it took up so much of my time I couldn't work on anything else for BTS.

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

6 years

Don't agree with his policies but it was a great honor to meet Kim Jong Un this weekend

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

1 year

The SWT statement is largely accurate (at least to the stuff about BTS). Anyone that knows the history between VGBC/BTS understands I would not say this unless it was the truth. I don't work for BTS anymore, but I still care about smash, more than any competition between orgs.

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

1 year

I am not some bogeyman that orchestrated this whole takedown. The other TOs didn't work with Alan because they didn't like his conduct. They didn't trust him as a good representative to Nintendo, and what he was offering wasn't good enough.

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

8 months

@HugS86 btw i forgot about this but there are at least 100 dota fans that came to the public portion of dota summit who i gave tours of the office and told all of them that you, Hugo Gonzalez, was the all time goat of SSBM because I wanted them to take the remaining Roast of Hugo shirts

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

4 years

"is the earth made up mostly of land or water" let's start in the center of asia and slowly zoom out 3 days later THE DECISION DESK HAS CALLED IT FOR THE OCEANS AFTER A HUGE COMEBACK FROM EARLY LAND RESULTS

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@Hot_Bid

1 year

@bobbyscar We acknowledge and regret an interaction between our DMCA and @bobbyscar 's YouTube channel, in a manner which did not reflect our own standards.

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@Hot_Bid

5 years

Game of Thrones episode 69

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@Hot_Bid

3 years

@toph_bbq @aidencalvin @OXY_Crimson @JuggleRob @sheridactyls

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@Hot_Bid

4 years

@DeepLeffen actually jealous whoever made this gets to read hundreds of versions of this stuff daily

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6 years

Anyone else think the queen of clubs looks like @ccncdota2

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

5 years

Six years later we're still getting Kuro vs Puppey in finals, respect

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@Hot_Bid

6 years

Chinese netizens are upset that Larva BM'd their player so hard, first series goes offrace and nukes, second series kills his own workers at the start and then played like this lol wtf

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

3 years

holy fuck that actually happened in real life lmao what a game

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@Hot_Bid

3 years

Too many people to name but big shoutout to everyone that worked on SS11 with me, amazing ending to the perfect way to come back to LAN events Will always remember this one

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

2 years

Dota 2 community, I know the major is cancelled, and everyone is sad right now, but look on the bright side (1/x)

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

4 years

if we've learned anything these past few weeks its that you don't know your commentators you don't know your top players sometimes, you don't even know your own friends

Rishi

@rishissb

4 years

When I say "telling your followers not to attack someone" isn't enough, I mean we need to tackle and dismantle the issue of streamer/player idolization. here's a clip of Leffen doing EXACTLY that:

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

4 years

About Demon (CW: sexual assault) Read:

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

2 years

Justice for @slime_machine

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

2 years

YOSHIIIIIIIIIIII

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

5 years

It's so hard to believe, he was tweeting and streaming and stuff just two days ago Geoff was funny and kind, there wasn't anyone like him as an caster and entertainer. I remember joining TL around the same time as him in 2003/04 and posting 30,000 times about starcraft

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@Hot_Bid

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@Hot_Bid

2 years

tax season, glad i kept all these

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

5 years

"Probably should've just taken one for the team and made out with my aunt"

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

4 years

I played so much melee this past weekend, this community and game are so cool Hope everyone enjoyed Smash Summit 9, big things coming in 2020 for BTS and Smash :)

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

2 years

A few thoughts on Papa Johns event sponsorships: First, a huge shoutout to @OCJoMaMa and our sales team for making this happen, and also all the people internally at BTS who will work on this. Also, thank you to the TOs who will be working with us and PPJ. 1/8

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

4 years

Russian stream of the ending the Liquid VP match, the silence after the play happened just said so much @v1lat sick emotion

dota2mc - 123

Watch dota2mc's clip titled "123"

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

5 years

Winning event and streaming immediately after is the new bonus for Smash prize pools lmao @TempoAxe easily netted $20k+ this past Sunday between the singles prize pool and 4000+ subs. Glad the new stream setup on site helped! How are you going to spend the money Axe??

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

4 years

been playing a decent amount of starcraft remastered lately

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

4 years

Additional information about incidents between @Meruna_ and @TobiWanDOTA

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Ken Chen

@Hot_Bid

1 year

@falco Scam him back as a group project I can help It will be our oceans 11

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@Hot_Bid

5 years

this cameo destroyed me keanus in the movie for 10 minutes and every one is golden

Netflix

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We don't deserve Keanu Reeves

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5 years

How do you warm up for smash ultimate top 8 at a major tournament if you're in melee grand finals lmao Wizzrobe is insane

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9 years

i ask @ODPixel why he's wearing a black suit. "I'm attending the death of every other play by play commentators career." savage

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The Hollywood Reporter

@THR

2 years

Netflix to Release 25 Korean Originals in 2022: See the Full List

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@Hot_Bid

1 year

The Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities Firm does acknowledge and regret an interaction between Mr. Madoff and his clients money, in a manner which did not reflect our own stadards.

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