PEL Team Owner on the PUBG Esports Disaster - chessbrah

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English - January 20, 2020 15:44 - 1 hour - 138 MB - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
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Eric "chessbrah" Hansen is a chess Grandmaster, but also an ex team owner of a team that played in the biggest PUBG league in Europe - PEL. Since PUBG esports suddenly went downhill as 2019 was closing, we're going to uncover what PUBG Corp did wrong and how it felt being constantly in the dark as a team owner. Eric also touches on how much the whole endeavor actually costed and whether he'd try investing again in PUBG esports or not.

The video episode is available on YouTube!

Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

01:40 - Idea behind starting the team "Desperado esports"

09:55 - Entering into PUBG esports

16:55 - Number of people involved in an esports team

19:45 - Phase 1 PEL Contender League

23:20 - Contender team salaries

26:50 - Phase 2 PEL Contender League

28:15 - Dropping the team and pickup up a new roster for Phase 3

31:15 - Why Eric invested in Europe and not North America

34:24 - Picking up ex Beşiktaş esports and getting into PEL

35:23 - Pessimism before Phase 3 in PUBG esports, bad communication from PUBG Corp

39:08 - Fully investing in the team and players

41:10 - Biggest issues in Phase 3

45:14 - Broken promises by PUBG Corp

49:24 - Thoughts on PUBG marketing their own esport

50:46 - Revenue share on ingame skins

52:31 - Casual viewer concerns about PUBG competitive games

54:18 - How much the whole esports team investment costed in $$$

56:00 - The horrible tournament scheduling of late 2019 and early 2020

57:03 - What's killing PUBG esports59:12 - Future of PUBG esports

59:55 - Lack of competent PUBG Corp esports employees

1:01:24 - How PUBG Corp hired their esports staff

1:02:50 - A lot of ideas, but no one was listening

1:04:42 - PUBG Corp catering towards mostly Asia

1:06:40 - No one responding to questions

1:08:45 - PUBG needs a complete overhaul

1:11:37 - Potential of getting back into PUBG esports as a team owner

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Show made possible by Patreon Contributors: Eric Hennenhoefer

PEL Team Owner on the PUBG Esports Disaster - chessbrah

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