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British competitive gaming culture brand EXCEL ESPORTS has today announced a supplier partnership with the world leader in weightlifting equipment, Eleiko. As the Official Fitness Equipment Supplier, Eleiko will supply EXCEL’s League of Legends Championship (LEC) team with a selection of equipment at the player facilities in Berlin that will assist with performance and fitness training.

The announcement follows EXCEL’s brand update that saw it begin forging its own unique path in esports through its new belief in the Power of Better, which sees the team driven by performance and incorporates purpose in order to be better and create positive change in esports and gaming. The financial details of the sponsorship remains undisclosed.

“At EXCEL improvement never stops and we are always striving to be better. We have big ambitions for 2021 and it’s great to work with a partner like Eleiko who really understands the fitness environment and can provide us with the tools to reach our goals. Performance is a real focal point at EXCEL and it’s great we are able to provide our players with world-class equipment where they can train in a safe environment, ” said Robin McCammon, Chief Commercial Officer, EXCEL.

EXCEL ESPORTS’ League of Legends players are provided with a holistic, professional performance programme that incorporates both physical and psychological training and support and is spearheaded by the team’s Head of Performance Fabian Broich and Performance Manager Simon Bayer. The partnership with Eleiko will see the team utilise Eleiko’s equipment to support the players individual and team physical training regimes to prepare them throughout the 2021 Spring Split.

”At Eleiko, we understand the difference a sharp mind and body makes. Strength training provides esports athletes with a competitive edge: enhanced memory, endurance and cognitive functions, faster reaction time and greater grip strength. We are proud to support EXCEL’s LEC team in their high-performance training as well as in their esports success,” says Erik Blomberg, CEO at Eleiko.

Twitch has taken down WesBtw’s channel for an indefinite period for filling a swimming pool with random food items, though many argue it wasn’t enough of a reason to explain the ban.

Twitch has handed countless streamers with bans over the years, but more often than not, the bans had some reason going for them, but banning someone for the content that directly/indirectly does not violate any community guidelines is something bizarre and unusual even by Twitch’s standard.

Having teased the stream a day before, Wesbtw was scheduled the stream on 5 PM central for 29th January, though the stream turned out to be ideal, the aftermath was far from it. Nothing at this point can be pointed out as the reason behind this ban. As weird as the topic of the stream was, it can’t be a reason to justify the indefinite ban he is facing.

Just when the stream was getting interesting, Twitch took it down and stated the exposure of bodily fluid as the reason behind it. Wes argued that there wasn’t any shown on the stream which makes the ban all the more unreasonable, come to think of it, he’s right, everything inside the pool was a food item which is no way near to being a bodily fluid.

His viewers all well as disagreed with the banned resulting in multiple tweets getting aimed at Twitch support, asking them to revoke the ban that Wes is not entitled to. Whether or not Twitch reviews the ban is entirely up to them so there is a big chance of Wes spending some time away from streaming which should not have been the case.