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Dumb question: how do team salaries work? Who funds the team?

• chii 5y ago
  > Dumb question I dont think it's a dumb question! These things are often shrouded in secrecy imho - and it makes it hard for young, new players to know whether it's a good path for them or not. There's nothing to compare it with! I favour transparency tbh. a lot of esports teams work like a business - they hire workers who "produce" something and sell it for a profit. in this case, it's advertising. This is why you see players wearing a jersey/tshirt that has tonnes of logos and such, and their player names will have advertising/branding on it (gfuel being the big one i see often). The team pays a salary to the players, and takes the sponsorship money (and the difference, if any, is profit). The players generally also get a share of the prize money too - which is like an incentive bonus to perform well.
  • dehrmann 5y ago
    Makes sense, but I'm also surprised it's just sponsorship money. I pulled up a picture of Serral, arguably the greatest Starcraft II player of all time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serral#/media/File:Serral_2018.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serral#/media/File:Serral_2018... The only sponsors I see are Asus, Republic of Gamers (an Asus brand), and I think there's a Telia logo on his sleeve. Granted, SC2 isn't that popular, but that's all the sponsorship you need to pay salaries?
    • chii 5y ago
      dunno what serral's salary is - may be it is? And the branding may not just be on his tshirt, but the whole team's.
• Ekaros 5y ago
  There is quite a bit of VC also. The people who think they are getting on it early and at some point it is big and viable business. Might or might not be true for them.