To recap: Last weekend, Basim hosted a $40,000 marvel rival Tournament where dozens of Twitch streamers came together to show off the game’s newest hero, Deadpool. One of the former participants of the event, Kingsman265, made a video about the occasion where he claimed that he was removed from the event after urging Zzastak, a teammate, to play a character other than Black Widow. Widow is a hero that is notorious for having the worst win rate in the game – but Zzastak is known for playing that specific character. As the group practiced playing together, Kingsman265 reasoned that enemy teams were likely to have specific characters on their roster, so his group should prepare appropriate counter picks. However, his teammates refused to change his playing style.
The group feuded so much that word of the discord reached Basim and he banned Kingsman265 from the tournament. At the time, Basim defended the call by claiming that he had seen footage of the group’s exchange. Ultimately, he argued, his event was not meant to be ultra-competitive – and if anyone thinks otherwise, they should attend eSports matches instead. However, Kingsman265 expressed displeasure: participating in the event could have meant winning thousands of dollars, which he wanted to use to pay for his college tuition. News of the ban spread through the community as soon as the actual event ended, and Zazastack finished with a negative kill/death ratio after losing almost all of their matches.
Fast forward to a few days, Basim is now changing his tune.
“They’re absolutely right, 100 percent, no doubt about it,” Basim said during a Twitch broadcast in reference to critics who felt they made the wrong decision for Kingsman. “There’s no beating around the bush. I don’t know why it’s so hard to admit when you were wrong and when you messed up. I made a decision based on haste and misinformation.”
Although footage of the conversation between teammates showed everyone getting heated during the argument, Kingsman265 claimed that his teammates were being toxic and dismissive towards him. At least one teammate said he bullied Kingsman265, an admission by which Kingsman265’s on-stream reactions are measured by comparison. Nonetheless, Kingsman265 continues to ask its viewers to refrain from harassing the people at the center of the controversy, especially after some of them have reportedly received death threats.
However, exiting the tournament may be the best possible outcome for Kingsman265. His video highlighting the ban has received 1.5 million views, and influencers’ videos have also received millions of views. Kingsman265’s Twitch stream has also exploded. In December 2025, Twitch statistics show Kingsman265 was averaging less than 200 viewers per stream. Now, however, Kingsman265 is pulling in thousands of viewers per broadcast, recently reaching a high of 15,000 concurrents. Having over 10,000 live viewers thus puts Kingsman265 in the top 0.03% of Twitch streamers. It seems unlikely that Kingsman265 would have gotten anywhere near that number if he had simply participated in marvel rival tournament, where there was no guarantee that his group would perform well enough to win money.
Kingsman265 has also recouped the $3,000 he lost due to being kicked out of the tournament just because of one generous benefactor – never mind what he’s now getting from new subscribers and donations. As Kotaku said, Injustice marvel rival The player has started asking his viewers to stop sending him money altogether.
News of the drama has apparently reached its developer NetEase marvel rival. In a recent broadcast, Kingsman265 says that he was sent credits by NetEase to purchase skins for his main character Magic.
Kingsman265 said in disbelief, “There’s no fucking way, there’s no way that’s real.” However, despite all the attention, Kingsman265 says he is sticking to his original plans and completing his college degree.
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