How to fix UK eSports - discussion with Richard Lewis (Part 2)
59View part 1 of our discussion with Richard Lewis here:
UK eSports - what went wrong? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe9337pjX-E
Richard Lewis and eSports News UK editor Dom Sacco discuss what can be done to improve UK eSports, following Richard's original video:
Rich & Sam On: The Horror Of UK Esports https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PnyXFIofxw
Discussion points:
1:00 Intro: EU eSports stats
2:00 The opportunity of VC funding
4:07 The problem of eSports 'consultants'
7:20 UK orgs must reach non-endemic brands
16:33 Don't run an org to make a return
19:35 Lessons to be learnt from Riot
21:16 Government funding and the UKESA disaster
26:12 eSports being used for good
29:55 British eSports Association
33:54 How can we drive viewership?
48:33 Views on Multiplay/Insomnia
53:02 Banter & memes
58:14 ManaLight folding
1:03:10 Drug use in eSports
1:14:33 Cheating
1:20:27 Putting in the practice
1:24:23 Grassroots eSports and the National University Esports League
1:29:15 The Loughborough University 'anti-eSports brigade'
1:35:10 The final word: Richard's warning to idiots & arseholes
1:41:22 Shoutous
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