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Noonius
Profile Joined April 2012
Estonia17413 Posts
January 21 2015 18:12 GMT
#21
On January 22 2015 03:10 Noocta wrote:
The guy behidn GEM is a fucking genius, he's making money out of basically wind.


he just shows that there's enough dirty esports money to go around.
Next thing we hear is that Quantic Gaming is coming back
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imre
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
France9263 Posts
January 21 2015 18:14 GMT
#22
On January 22 2015 03:10 OtherWorld wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 22 2015 03:08 Aeromi wrote:


O_O isn't the second tweet coming from someone working for a team that manages GEM players?^^


Well she's working for Gumi who's on contract with InvasionEsport, the only team where someone from the sc2 section of GEM landed basically.
Zest fanboy.
Canucklehead
Profile Joined March 2011
Canada5074 Posts
January 21 2015 18:22 GMT
#23
You would figure someone as big as IMG would do their due diligence well enough before purchasing another company.
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Musicus
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany23576 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-21 18:27:42
January 21 2015 18:24 GMT
#24
What is GEM even fucking doing? Like how exactly are they helping leenock in anyway for example. I always thought it was a useless stupid organisation. If MC has to fucking tweet to advertise himself to teams, GEM is not doing a great job. I have no idea how a real agency like WME could pick them up, they probably just have no idea about esports, but want to hop on the train.
Maru and Serral are probably top 5.
Liquid`TLO
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Germany767 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-21 18:37:54
January 21 2015 18:37 GMT
#25
On January 22 2015 03:24 Musicus wrote:
What is GEM even fucking doing? Like how exactly are they helping leenock in anyway for example. I always thought it was a useless stupid organisation. If MC has to fucking tweet to advertise himself to teams, GEM is not doing a great job. I have no idea how a real agency like WME could pick them up, they probably just have no idea about esports, but want to hop on the train.


Can't you read?

They manage esports, globally!
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Rocket-Bear
Profile Joined July 2014
3070 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-21 18:43:46
January 21 2015 18:41 GMT
#26
AFAIK GEM was supposed the help Leenock etc with travelling. Like they had a house in germany the players could stay in during events like HSC. Also if the players they helped had trouble finding hotels/travelling stuff they would also help with that. Since not all team managers are good at english it is sometimes hard to understand and find where they need to go.

That's what they were supposed to do at least. But I don't know how much they did because Leenock reached out personally to me twice to get help travelling to Dreamhack events. And he also probably reached out to other people for other events, that wouldn't surprise me at all. I.E. it's highly likely that Leenock talked to Kane instead of GEM to get help to travel to IEM Toronto last year.

Lastly, the players who were sponsored by GEM was forced to stream on Azubu for 30hours every month until October last year. (After that, Azubu seemed to not think it was worth sponsoring sc2 and switched to KeSPA LoL teams instead). Since all of them did it, they must had recieved something from GEM, otherwise they would just drop out, right? So they did get something I just don't know what and how much sorry.I don't feel like asking Leenock because I don't care about how he makes, nor do I want to know because I think that's his own personal business.
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forsakeNXE
Profile Joined October 2011
Germany539 Posts
January 21 2015 18:43 GMT
#27
Seems like a.... suprise I guess. For real though Dario, aren't they doing anything for the esports scene? I gotta say that i never heard of them before really, but they can't do nothing and get bought by this huge company... right? ... rriiiieght? anyone? hello?
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Liquid`TLO
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Germany767 Posts
January 21 2015 18:44 GMT
#28
On January 22 2015 03:43 forsakeNXE wrote:
Seems like a.... suprise I guess. For real though Dario, aren't they doing anything for the esports scene? I gotta say that i never heard of them before really, but they can't do nothing and get bought by this huge company... right? ... rriiiieght? anyone? hello?


welcome to esport. http://www.abuzu.com/
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Aeromi
Profile Blog Joined August 2012
France14460 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-21 18:46:19
January 21 2015 18:45 GMT
#29
On January 22 2015 03:43 forsakeNXE wrote:
Seems like a.... suprise I guess. For real though Dario, aren't they doing anything for the esports scene? I gotta say that i never heard of them before really, but they can't do nothing and get bought by this huge company... right? ... rriiiieght? anyone? hello?

There are a lot of people in esport who are saying that GEM is funded by Sapinda, the company behind AZUBU, ESGN, it smells fishy, people told me that it was basically money laundering.
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Musicus
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany23576 Posts
January 21 2015 18:45 GMT
#30
On January 22 2015 03:37 Liquid`TLO wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 22 2015 03:24 Musicus wrote:
What is GEM even fucking doing? Like how exactly are they helping leenock in anyway for example. I always thought it was a useless stupid organisation. If MC has to fucking tweet to advertise himself to teams, GEM is not doing a great job. I have no idea how a real agency like WME could pick them up, they probably just have no idea about esports, but want to hop on the train.


Can't you read?

They manage esports, globally!


Ah damn, I'm so stupid... thanks for enlightening me!
Maru and Serral are probably top 5.
Ej_
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
47656 Posts
January 21 2015 18:48 GMT
#31
On January 22 2015 03:45 Aeromi wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 22 2015 03:43 forsakeNXE wrote:
Seems like a.... suprise I guess. For real though Dario, aren't they doing anything for the esports scene? I gotta say that i never heard of them before really, but they can't do nothing and get bought by this huge company... right? ... rriiiieght? anyone? hello?

There are a lot of people in esport who are saying that GEM is funded by Sapinda, the company behind AZUBU, ESGN, it smells fishy, people told me that it was basically money laundering.

I'm fine with money laundering as long as Azubu is a better streaming platform than Twitch
"Technically the dictionary has zero authority on the meaning or words" - Rodya
OtherWorld
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
France17333 Posts
January 21 2015 18:50 GMT
#32
On January 22 2015 03:48 Ej_ wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 22 2015 03:45 Aeromi wrote:
On January 22 2015 03:43 forsakeNXE wrote:
Seems like a.... suprise I guess. For real though Dario, aren't they doing anything for the esports scene? I gotta say that i never heard of them before really, but they can't do nothing and get bought by this huge company... right? ... rriiiieght? anyone? hello?

There are a lot of people in esport who are saying that GEM is funded by Sapinda, the company behind AZUBU, ESGN, it smells fishy, people told me that it was basically money laundering.

I'm fine with money laundering as long as Azubu is a better streaming platform than Twitch

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Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Belgica34432 Posts
January 21 2015 18:50 GMT
#33
I should get sponsored by 'ZUBU
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China1350 Posts
January 21 2015 19:05 GMT
#34
o shit wolverine is going to be a part of esports :O
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HolydaKing
Profile Joined February 2010
21254 Posts
January 21 2015 19:29 GMT
#35
Gotta say there've been quite some interesting news lately.
iaretehnoob
Profile Joined June 2004
Sweden741 Posts
January 21 2015 19:39 GMT
#36
So what will the next Claufzubu venture be? And this time it will be totally legit, right?
Circumstance
Profile Blog Joined March 2014
United States11403 Posts
January 21 2015 19:45 GMT
#37
-Got Super and Keen onto Invasion
-Got Yoda and First onto TCM
-Got every one of their clients streaming deals with Azubu TV.
-Ran a team house in Europe for a full year before the WCS changes.
-Provided service enough to Ragnarok that he no longer wants a team.

I don't know the logistics or internal organization of GEM, but they'be kinda been amazing as a management organization. People can say what they want about these "dirty laundered money" rumors (which, I just wanna remind you, are still only rumors) but GEM has done what it"says set out to do, and is now part of a larger reputable agency.
The world is better when every background has a chance.
[Phantom]
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
Mexico2170 Posts
January 21 2015 19:49 GMT
#38
Wait, aren't GEM part of like azubu?

Im sorry, but i will never trust, respect, support, or watch anyone who has anything to do with them.
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Wuster
Profile Joined May 2011
1974 Posts
January 21 2015 19:49 GMT
#39
On January 22 2015 04:45 Circumstance wrote:
-Got Super and Keen onto Invasion
-Got Yoda and First onto TCM
-Got every one of their clients streaming deals with Azubu TV.
-Ran a team house in Europe for a full year before the WCS changes.
-Provided service enough to Ragnarok that he no longer wants a team.

I don't know the logistics or internal organization of GEM, but they'be kinda been amazing as a management organization. People can say what they want about these "dirty laundered money" rumors (which, I just wanna remind you, are still only rumors) but GEM has done what it"says set out to do, and is now part of a larger reputable agency.


Streaming on Azubu isn't an accomplishment since GEM and Azubu are sister companies run by the same people.

I don't know about the logistics of the GEM house, but that is something pretty substantial.

The rest don't really impress me to be honest, especially since Invasion and TCM are kind of second (or third even) tier teams (no offense to anyone associated with them).
renaissanceMAN
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1840 Posts
January 21 2015 19:52 GMT
#40
I just hope it works out...
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