Is sportswashing bad?

Personally, I don't necessarily think “state-sponsored sportswashing = evil.”
It's better than spending limited budgets on weapons and ammunition, and by projecting a clean image to the international community, it can actually encourage real cleanliness in the long run (by increasing exposure to clean values).
However, I don't know if the same applies to e-sports.

yay

not at all in my opinion

i just want more tournaments

every country who is trying to put forth a good image through sportswashing is just trying to distract you from their human rights violations

its not ideal but ill take it

If they stop buying weapons, committing war crimes or violating human rights and etc than using the money they have to promote/sponser sports than yeah, its not a bad thing, the problem is using sports to mascarete all the crimes they keep committing and all the laws against woman rights they have

Geoguesser canceled its EWC tournament due to strong opposition from users. Both the users and the organizers who accepted their opinions were wise.

Sportswashing is bad. Only reason I made my comments because I thought people were selective who to boycott. Was wrong but it is what it is.

In my opinion, RIOT shouldn't have held tournaments in China and created a Chinese league. But it's too late now.

always crazy to me when Europeans and Americans talk about sportswashing

The fact that this is even a debate says it all about the future.

Yes, it's evil. Therefore, all Russian players should be banned as well. Even if that's impossible, they should at least abandon their flags, as Chronicle did.

no its not bad unless matchfixing happens

idk being able to go to ewc was fun
ik thats prolly a hot take but i rlly enjoyed ewc