gotcha, so they basically just merged and vitality had the bigger agar.io blob so they ate them. interesting. gamers8 seems really beneficial to the players in more than just the big prize pool! also all these signings has to get other teams looking at the game again. a general esports ;recession; has smaller games looking more appealing as well.

There’s enough good enough free agents that logistics-wise it would be simpler. But it is probably way simpler in another way to just recruit a ready-made roster, and if you have money to pay them, eh go for it, makes sense.

EDIT : @Waxangel, ah, it makes it a bit different. Still makes sense for Onsyde to partner with a bigger team

Also after years of community members appealing during streams and podcasts that SC players are cheap investments for big e-sports organizations someone has finally told them :O :O :O Cloud9, Vitality, Twisted Minds, Talon, NaVi. Who will be next? EG, Astralis?

Opens up the question who would have the money to “partner” with BASILISK? FaZe and TSM came to mind, but both have financial troubles as far as I know. PSG usually only invests in non-european teams. Maybe SK Gaming or fnatic? Or that clusterfuck of a name from OverActive Media?

EG is literally dead and in the process of completly selling out right now.

I’d love to know the specifics of what it entails, are they paying salaries/expenses or is it a purely branding thing for Gamers 8 multi-game prize eligibility?

If the former that’s good and maybe a sign that Gamers 8 will have some knock-on benefits to SC2 after all, if it’s the latter then hey it’s probably a good deal for the players and the org, if not the wider game

On February 03 2024 03:14 Xamo wrote:
These are all interesting moves.
Having a single team to cheer for in all e-sports titles is a bless for the fans. I think promoting this is a very good idea and could actually help grow the fan base not only for “smaller” games as SC2, but also for e-sports as a whole .

Interesting thought, considering that Esports for the past 10-15 years was clearly moving away from that concept.
“Back in the days” most of the really big events were multi-title events. ESWC, WCG, KODE5 etc. You often had atleast Counterstrike and Warcraft, often FIFA aswell, sometimes even a whole roster of titles (like @WCG).
However, with most of these orgs going out of business (and I assume still owing thousands and thousands of prizemoney to players…) and the publishers stepping up big time, we had the opposite, with Riot being at the front of that.

So the idea to bring it back together, not as a competition of nations (like WCG) but for orgs is kinda cool, though I assume this will be the only type of event like this. Not much else room for it in the calendar anymore and I’m not even sure how much for example Riot is ready to give up for this – in the ‘official’ LoL Circuit atleast it has no place or purpose, so I guess the biggest Esport we have will not be a part of it