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“But the esports industry was still inherently grassroots — lacking any kind of larger organization or reverence.”
““We would pack a car and bring our own computers and the big CRT monitors,” Reichert tells Rolling Stone .”
“But in the Wild West of online gaming, there wasn’t any true structure.”
““Football was our main turf, but [it was] everything you can think of, as well as video games.”
“And not just for himself, but for an entire generation of players ahead.”
““There was a tournament here in Paris called LAN Arena.”
““We went to other countries and did international tournaments, and then did it across different games, not just Counter-Strike or Quake .”
““At the very beginning, it wasn’t clear that traditional media would go away.”
““The first successes were 50 people, then 100, then 500, 1,000, 2,000 — then we went to trade fairs and it was 10,000!”
“My job is to make it the best version of esports it can be.” Bringing it all home As the CEO of the Esports Foundation, and spearheading its multiple offshoots, Reichert’s days are packed.”
““I have two brothers; we competed in everything,” he says.”
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““Esports is not here to become traditional sports.”
“In the years to follow, SK Gaming would become the best team in Germany, then Europe, then among the upper echelon of the world.”
“ESL even purchased their own television studio for broadcast, but it was never the right fit.”
“For us to launch with that makes perfect sense, growing the existing ecosystem and bringing it together,” Reichert says.”
“It was either super local or it took decades to build, and the internet was taking away a lot of these barriers.”
“It wasn’t a given that building an esports ecosystem would automatically draw an audience.”
“The impetus, especially early on, was to create a following beyond the folks who wanted to compete themselves.”
“The internet would substitute for a lot of traditional media, but that was not a proven model.”
“In 2013, 8,000 people showed up in person to a Counter-Strike tournament in Katowice, Poland.”
“Next year, the Esports Nations Cup is set to launch, bringing a different spin on the existing club model.”
“If you give each country a club to rally behind, you engage a much larger part of the world’s population.”
“While his brothers went on to pursue football — the more obviously lucrative path at the time — Ralf had found an opportunity to bring a different dream to fruition: pro gaming as a career was suddenly a reality.”
“Sipping a cappuccino inside the VIP embassy of Paris’ Expo Porte de Versailles, the former pro gamer-turned-entrepreneur is entirely at ease.”
““We tried to get the publishers, the game developers, to invest in this — which was really hard because their business model was, ‘We create a $60 boxed game, sell it for four weeks, and then it’s onto the next one,” he explains.”