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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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!
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
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
-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.
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).