"I literally had $5,000 to my name and that $5,000 was supposed to pay my mortgage on my house. So what did I do? I used that $5,000 to send the team to Dallas... They won in Dallas, the next weekend they went up to San Francisco and won again, they won $50,000 in prize money and my cut was $5,000 and I paid my house payment." - @JasonBWLake
Jason Lake put half a million dollars of his own money into his brand @Complexity in the early 2000s and wore a tie throughout events to make esports look more professional at a time when many teams didn't even wear jerseys.
A true pioneer of esports.
The clip is from "compLexity: Redemption", while the quote comes from @Thorin's Reflections series. I highly recommend both if you're interested in one of the most fascinating stories in all of esports.
The fast and the... car which won Le Mans 🔥
@ToyotaRacingWEC are bringing their race-winning TR010 Hybrid home to Fuji, and you can see it in all its glory this weekend.
Quarter mile? We do six hours... 👀 Be there!
#WEC#6HFuji#Toyota
@zipelCS I miss that. People were having fun, float values did not exist (we were not aware), no pumpers and "investors", no chinese mfs, trading+csgolounge, 0.03$ cases. Now it's fucking casino + trade-up excel type shit, no soul, no community + the game is broken
FUN FACT: The Counter-Strike 2 commentator known as "Hawka" has a YouTube channel where he uploads DJ sets 🎶
Some of his set names are pure gold:
"dj set for guaranteed elo gains"
"djing a boiler room set for my dog"
"hard house set for late night gamers"
even though his teammate was totally right...
counterstrike can really use some more boomer, expendable income content creators. there is a whole gen of dads who are spending their time playing pickleball when they could use high level managerial skills to set up postplants
THIS IS WHEN CS PRO PLAY WAS AT ITS PEAK...
INSTANT TRADEABLE SKINS ,BETTING ON SHADY TEAMS, WINNING TONS OF ASIIMOVS AND REDLINES... PEAK
YOU SHOULD'VE BEEN THERE...