Overwatch League

that then fucking failed horribly.

The Overwatch League, which was insanely overvalued by Blizzard, so they got these billionaires to buy a team slot.

I don't even remember what it cost to have a slot in the Overwatch League if it was like a two-digit million dollar amount.

That's

completely absurd.

Yeah.

In part because, you know, for example, you had like the Overwatch League.

They wanted to like go to multiple states and

all around

But I think the only time I ever watched esports was.

was when they introduced the Overwatch League when Overwatch was first big.

I was like, you know, this is a game I'm into.

It's worth checking out.

I remember or so.

Yeah.

I remember like the it was like something like the it was it was before the Overwatch League.

It was something like Warcraft or something was on ESPN.

And they are constantly adapting to where the attention of the next generation is flowing.

They moved aggressively into the esports arena, sponsoring the massive Overwatch League and becoming the premier title sponsor for the NASCAR iRacing series in 2020.

Always hauling the eyeballs.

Exactly.

They make money now, but a lot of people don't.

League of Legends? Look at the Overwatch League.

Well, that's dead.

Yeah,

Okay.

I think if Overwatch League worked, Rocket League and Psyonix stays by themselves.

Yeah, no, that makes sense.

Like, if they were able to have a model off of the back of Overwatch, wherein they... you can't fuck up rocket league for e-sports because it's the same.

It is right.

It is entirely on the player.

For Overwatch, obviously, if the 45 people or however many players there were in Overwatch League don't like the game and they start bitching and moaning, then yes, they can go in and change how much damage Sombra does.

But nobody in the competitive Rocket League scene is being like, the ball doesn't go far enough when you hit it.

Overwatch passed a billion in revenue within about its first year.

Overwatch League.

Franchise in the Overwatch League.

Slots sold for a reported $20 million each in 2017.

Yeah.

And for a while, when Mr. X moved on to...

He went to the Overwatch League, I think.

Yes.

He's still there.

You know, Valorant had this, um, Overwatch had this.

In fact, it actually caused quite a stir in Overwatch when the Overwatch League was brought in because certain teams were not seen as being financially viable.

I remember obviously this happened with League of Legends as well and Valorant too, where they just, they weren't sold on how much revenue they have and the ability to support a team, right? And, and they-- I know this was included in the old player contract that Ubisoft used to use that we're talking, like, five, six years ago.

Um, I don't know if the contract has changed now that Blast has taken over the ecosystem, but when it was with FaceIt, my recollection of the, the contract was that you had to pay above a certain amount, and you had to make monthly payments, and all this stuff was included or else your spot could be yanked.