This is my full step-by-step guide for hosting a live esports tournament. If you follow this simple process, you will be able to run your own esports tournament without issue. This article has been tailored for live events. If you are running an online event, I recommend reading “5 Step Guide to Host an Online …
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Many startup esports teams, tournament-hosting services and communities are hoping to grow sheerly off of sweat equity (time and effort). Although this works well, it takes time and is a very low barrier of entry approach that bales in comparison to having real capital to work with. With that, you likely wonder how to get …
Esports tournaments can be very confusing or simplistic due to the esports tournament format or tournament bracket options present. But for both a tournament organizer and esports enthusiasts, it’s very valuable to be aware of all the formats and how they coincide with each other. What are all the tournament formats in esports? There are …
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I’ve spoken with and worked with a multitude of grassroots esports organizations, and one theme seems to be consistent: so many of these organizations fail to get sponsorships. Even if their metrics justify it, esports teams, esports tournaments, streams and esports players all seem to struggle so much with getting sponsored. In the past, I’ve …
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Since 2015, you’ve likely heard the term “esports” and “esports tournaments” being thrown around. Although on this blog, we’ve already discussed what esports is, we haven’t gone into detail about what an esports tournament is. What is an esports tournament? An esports tournament is a series of video game matches between a number of competitors …
In esports, free agents play a fairly big role in live esports tournaments and for grassroot teams. But what are free agents? Free agents are players that aren’t affiliated with any specific team, rather they are actively looking to be picked up by any team to join as a player in. Free agents tend to …
If you are new to esports and competitive gaming, I’m sure you’ve come across the term “scrim” or someone may have asked you to scrim against them. Scrimmages are a common act in esports and gaming, but what are scrims? Scrims are competitive matches performed between esports teams to simulate a tournament match’s environment without …
Regardless if you are running an esports team, a stream, esports community or an esports tournament, you need an esports logo. There’s a lot you need to think about and do when composing a logo for any of those situations. To design an esports logo, you need to take the following steps: Understand your brand’s …
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If you’ve seen a breakdown of the esports industry’s revenue sources, you may have noticed “Game Publisher Fees” or “Publisher Fees” as a fairly insignificant yet relevant source. Unlike all other self-explanatory revenue streams, this one leaves you wondering what are game publisher fees? Game publisher fees are payments made from tournament organizers to game …
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When I started off in the esports industry, the one thing I really didn’t understand was esports tournament tiers. Upon googling it, you see articles that are from organizations ranking the esports game titles by tiers, rather than understanding the proper usage of esports tiers from an endemic standpoint. I want to clear that up …
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