Why Soccer Forced FC Schalke 04 to Sell Its LEC Slot feat. Bloop
FTW with Imad Khan: An Esports and Competitive Gaming Podcast
English - July 05, 2021 09:00 - 15 minutes - 28.2 MBFantasy Sports Sports News Sports News Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Traditional sports franchises buying esports teams or creating their own is nothing new in the modern esports world. But the very new COVID-19 pandemic and the financial trouble it plunged a lot of sports teams into has very real trickle-down consequences for those teams' esports ventures. One of the oldest soccer clubs in Germany, FC Schalke 04, suffered a historic relegation into the 2. Bundesliga in 2020. Combined with the pandemic's effect on its finances, the club felt it had no choice but to sell its League of Legends team's slot in the LEC to Swiss buyers Team BDS. This week, Imad is joined by Dot Esports investigative reporter Pablo "Bloop" Suárez to break down the massive sale.