After all, one more try had to go wrong, and the Apex Legends Esports Twitter this morning let their entire fanbase down by prematurely announcing EMEA Match Day #6 was LIVE at 5 AM London time. Honestly, I mean, you read that right. Half of the pros just woke up to their reactions being priceless as it was supposed to be a 5 PM tweet.
Let us hypothesize. The official Apex Legends Esports account popped in a Tweet announcing that they were LIVE with EMEA Match Day #6 while Americas was to be at 3 PM PT. Except… that was a blatant lie since the matches were not going on at that very moment. There was a clear scheduling error, and the post got sent out practically 12 hours early. Shortly thereafter, the panic and chaos ensued, with players, casters, and fans providing priceless replies, fearing that they had somehow missed out on the entire event.
Alliance Pjeh woke up eventually with a migraine from the situation and asked, “Can someone tell me how it went? I was asleep.” TroubbleGum kept on tweeting, “Sht sht sht, did I miss game 1?” The esports organizations joined in with the Cybercats Esports response: a meme of a man squinting at his phone captioned with “u really sure?”
All the credit to the Apex community should really go to whoever should be crowned the biggest MVP of the whole saga because Dizzee joked with, “7am PL and Timmy moved to EU .. @ZuniUK how are the games bro?” Others, like Snow, said: “Y’all are gonna give all the pro players a heart attack when they see this 😭.” Söpa Art went another step farther with the legendary reply; he trashed the entire esports scene by saying: “Listen at this point you’re VERY CLEARLY not invested in making this esport look remotely professional,” and that must have been a smart blow to the chest.
The Apex Esports account tried to joke its way out, replying in all seriousness to a player: “Currently saying some positive affirmations to manifest a better day 😇.” But really, this is not the first time this has happened, and players are getting really tired of it. One reply even called out EA, saying, “This is what happens when you fire half your ALGS team.”
The funniest thing was that some were fully convinced they had time-traveled. Sodie tweeted, “Woah, what’s it like being in the future?” while Luke Meehan admitted, “Thought I was living in a different time zone for a second.” And then there was one guy who straight-up offered to take over the social media account and said, “Please let me run the socials, I can do better.”
But regardless of the chaos, the matches are happening later today, with Americas kicking off at 3 PM PT. What really was entertaining, however, was watching the entire Apex community lose their minds over the scheduling mishap. If anything, it proves two things: 1) Never trust a scheduled tweet, and 2) Apex Legends esports drama is like no other.
So if you missed the early morning freakout, don’t worry; the real games will still be there for you later. And maybe, just maybe, next time, they’ll actually check the time before hitting that tweet button. Or maybe not. From this ingrained, we’re all just going for the joyride.
