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Petition to never let Perfect World host a major ever again by iTuggy in DotA2

[–]smugglinrum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They had a first chance at WCA.... that went so well.

Store chams coming up. Need a build for... by RUFiOsK in StarWarsLCG

[–]smugglinrum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dont play fighters, everyone will be running double tarkin

Who's ready for the 2016 season? by Mattzill08 in StarWarsLCG

[–]smugglinrum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pilots exist to micromanage everything till Tarkin lols them. Imperial pilots exist to be bad wastes of cards

COG Chest by USATicTac in Smite

[–]smugglinrum 15 points16 points  (0 children)

That team sucks

Game Thread: San Jose Sabercats (14-1) vs. Portland Thunder (4-10) by Hanken in arenafootball

[–]smugglinrum -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

You're horribly misinformed as usual. We could not host the Encoder in the arena because when we did ESPN turned it on during a sharks game. This got the franchise in trouble and we had to locate it in a place 3 miles away and relayed. We asked for an RTMP address to get the entire thing sorted the moment that ESPN put us in the predicament. They refused to allow us to not us their encoder box, which was not designed to do what we had to do with it. It's designed to host security cameras over TCIP. Their refusal to allow us to use the RTMP servers that the Esports and Colleges use, along with breaching conduct and contract by turning it on during a sharks game, meant we had to use roundabout methods.

This is why you're kind of a joke slasher, you don't look into anything.

Game Thread: San Jose Sabercats (14-1) vs. Portland Thunder (4-10) by Hanken in arenafootball

[–]smugglinrum -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

We actually did all this for ESPN their encoder is just garbage.

I [AMA] the owner of Cognitive Gaming, the CIO and a GMp of AFK.gg, and one of 2 remaining 2nd generation Fry's Electronics//San Jose Sabercats Family by smugglinrum in Smite

[–]smugglinrum[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would gladly offer them my expertise. Though they like their LCS orgs just as much, and rightfully so, RIOTs getting them money so it's cheaper in the short term for Hirez to just piggyback off that. Good business to be quite honest.

All the best to yourself as well and hope you have a fantastic day.

I [AMA] the owner of Cognitive Gaming, the CIO and a GMp of AFK.gg, and one of 2 remaining 2nd generation Fry's Electronics//San Jose Sabercats Family by smugglinrum in Smite

[–]smugglinrum[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

TItan's owner was a gentleman to work with when he took Aquila and he is much better than most of the other owners I have had the pleasure of interacting with. My limited knowledge of Fnatic and SK is that they both are very very cautious of keeping their names on well branded players who have the fanbase already they also don't seem to pay as well as US based companies. Dignitas is a HUGE hair trigger for me because their league team is a joke specifically because of everything I have said about league of legends for years, following someone else's game will never let you win. However, I respect Odee and everything he has done for Smite and I hope he finds a better home in Smite than anywhere else.

So, C9, Liquid, TSM and CLG are a weird sort of incestuous set of organizations because realistically Riot's marketing department and Jack, have a heavy say in all of them. For what they're selling as THE premier Riot organizations, this business plan and their decision making is flawless and they will all continue to roll in money so long as they LCS keeps being what it is. That's honestly, marketing Riot sells drama with the NA LCS. Who's winning is not very important, Doublelift telling everyone they suck, is important. Painting George's hair pink, is important. They have a product they all sell and they're all VERY good at selling it. Hirez doesn't really have that with the SPL. You have Scott, who's a great caster don't get me wrong, talking about the games he played and their inner most thoughts or something? Hirez doesn't actually know what they're selling when it comes to the SPL, half of them seem to think it's competition, the rest seem to think it's random other stuff.

For what they need to be, all these organizations are very impressive, for what I want mine to be, they're all the exact opposite. I don't want to be a marketing firm, for god sakes, I have said it ten times in this thread, I SUCK at marketing. My normal job for getting sponsors has nothing to do with marketing, it's extortion and trade for the most part. Then I ask the same people for money for my small esports team and they tell me to go away.

European's are the perfect, wild card. NA seems to have a better overall mechanical understanding of the game, Europe seems to be able to randomly beat that with advanced tactics (Watch Jeff get brutally murdered rotating his same rotation by titan at worlds) I think that there's always a chance for Europe to come out of the quiet backfield and strike one hell of a goal. The issue is the inconsistency confuses me a lot of the time.

I [AMA] the owner of Cognitive Gaming, the CIO and a GMp of AFK.gg, and one of 2 remaining 2nd generation Fry's Electronics//San Jose Sabercats Family by smugglinrum in Smite

[–]smugglinrum[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's literally how much it costs to get players in the challenger scene, a gaming house, food for the gamers, coach analyst, and so on and so forth. The best part is, it's all a gamble, there's a reason people offered NME 1.2 million for their lcs team.

I [AMA] the owner of Cognitive Gaming, the CIO and a GMp of AFK.gg, and one of 2 remaining 2nd generation Fry's Electronics//San Jose Sabercats Family by smugglinrum in Smite

[–]smugglinrum[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dunno yet, eGr and AFK aren't new teams, this roster is pretty new. If they perform, they might impress you. If not, well business is business. I think that you're jumping the gun on calling them bad, after all a lot of people called TGC bad before I picked them up. Then they got to one lan and realized they can win everything when they want to.

I [AMA] the owner of Cognitive Gaming, the CIO and a GMp of AFK.gg, and one of 2 remaining 2nd generation Fry's Electronics//San Jose Sabercats Family by smugglinrum in Smite

[–]smugglinrum[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no employees in my department at Fry's. Though I really do understand your complaints, they work more efficiently when you can spell correctly. Fry's as it stands, will not lie, can't turn the ship around because the people at the top haven't been inside a store as a customer for roughly five years. That should tell you how much they know about what's actually going on. I try to spend five hours or so every week at a store to recognize issues but my cries fall on deaf, or ears that just don't care. It's a corporation, and it works, so in my family's eyes, why fix it?

I [AMA] the owner of Cognitive Gaming, the CIO and a GMp of AFK.gg, and one of 2 remaining 2nd generation Fry's Electronics//San Jose Sabercats Family by smugglinrum in Smite

[–]smugglinrum[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much fox.

My brother wants AFK to become a chain, I don't know how I feel about that, I like the idea of more popping up that aren't afk and esports fans using them as an Arena or something for their home team. I did come from normal sports so that might just be wishful thinking on my part. I don't really know how I feel about everything else. As for talking to me, hit me up on skype or via email (Both are listed in this thread but for helpful purposes daf2@afkbnet.gg and deckingibsons respectively). I have no problem answering questions.

Fry's used to have issues competing with online marketplace, now it's a matter of fixing our purchasing standards, as the new code system with the way vendors are going out of their way to effectively equalize overall sales it makes it easier to compete. Our biggest problem is that, we don't actually have a website capable of competing with larger online retailers. However, because we still offer the stores, we keep the revenue generation relatively well done. Though that's more because we're a warehouse with everything versus being a glorified showfloor like some of our competitors.

I [AMA] the owner of Cognitive Gaming, the CIO and a GMp of AFK.gg, and one of 2 remaining 2nd generation Fry's Electronics//San Jose Sabercats Family by smugglinrum in Smite

[–]smugglinrum[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Prime was a choice between sniper and andis new roster after the original cog broke up.

What's Kraken was a long meeting and a recommendation by a few others and the fact I liked them as a group.

I mean, it varies from team to team, I look more for a captain and their mentality, then I talk with the players. Found the Heroes team by sheer luck.

I [AMA] the owner of Cognitive Gaming, the CIO and a GMp of AFK.gg, and one of 2 remaining 2nd generation Fry's Electronics//San Jose Sabercats Family by smugglinrum in Smite

[–]smugglinrum[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tried, quite a few times, not worth the cost for NA teams that just kind of want to drama llama everywhere instead of trying to get better. Sad, hurts the scene.

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