Apex Legends star iitzTimmy reveals why he turned down TSM streaming offer
Apex Legends Twitch star Timmy ‘iitzTimmy’ An has reportedly turned down an offer to join esports giants TSM, with the streamer revealing that despite joining the organization being his “dream”, he’s “not sure” if he wants to join a team.
iitzTimmy has blown up on Twitch with the rise of Apex Legends, withthe former Golden Guardians membergoing from hundreds of viewers to thousandsacross the last 12 months.
Helped along by his great talents, and shooting for remarkable challenges across Apex Legends and Valorant, Timmy is now a household name on Twitch.
However, he’s not going to follow in the footsteps of streamerslike NiceWiggand Nokokopuffsand join an org like 100 Thieves or TSM though. In fact, Timmy is considering not taking up a TSM offer — despite it being his childhood dream to join the legendary organization.
“Do you want the truth? I have an offer from TSM. So then you’re going to be like ‘but wait Timmy, why don’t you join TSM?’ I have a lot of offers, chat, from a lot of orgs. It’s not like a flex or anything, but I’m not sure if I want to be in an org. It’s an honest opinion,” he said on December 5.
“I don’t want to say those reasons why on stream because that ruins the perspective of orgs in general, but as a content creator — especially someone as big as me — what can an org do for me? That’s the reason why you join an org.
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The TSM offer was a bigger deal than most for Timmy. Having previously been signed to Golden Guardians, he had an idea of what it was like being in an organization. However, joining TSM was his dream, dating back to the “Baylife” League of Legends days.
“For me, personally, when I was younger and played a lot of League of Legends, I was a huge TSM fan. My dream was to be on TSM. As I became better and I wanted to become a better player, all the good players were on TSM.
“When I got my TSM offer, it wasn’t that the offer was bad, but I’d gotten to this point as a streamer where I felt like I didn’t need them. There’s that passion to join these orgs — TSM, NRG, Liquid, there’s so many of them — but why do I want to join them?”
