The League of Legends European Championship (LEC) has cancelled a sponsorship deal with a city in Saudi Arabia after backlash from fans.
Game developer Riot was criticised for taking big money from a country that has a poor record on human rights.
Now the company says it realises the deal had “caused rifts in the very community we seek to grow”.
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