There's no doubt that eSports is becoming a major player in the world of competitive entertainment. The number of tournaments has skyrocketed in the last few years, and the prizes for those tournaments just get bigger and bigger. Some colleges are now starting to field teams of gamers in competition. Now some are wondering if the world of competitive mmo games can break the ultimate barrier - the Olympics. Should eSports be an Olympic event?
EK Cooling allegedly has slipped itself into a hot soup of seemingly endless financial woes, where it has not paid its staff, suppliers, and contractors for many months as the company is facing liquidity problems and a surplus of inventory left unsold, stuck in the warehouse for a more extended period. Gamers Nexus investigated these claims made by former and current personnel, where he found trails of unpaid bills lasting as long as three to four months and unpaid raises that accumulated for almost a year.
EK Water Blocks has two entities—a Slovenian-based headquarters and a US-based subsidiary, EK Cooling Solutions. Steve narrated the series of events in detail, stating that the company was reportedly irresponsible and negligent regarding payment. Consequently, partners and employees are forced to share the burden of alleged mismanagement. It all begins with its extensive range of products, leading to a surplus of goods. EK has over 230 water blocks, 40 liquid cooling kits, 85 reservoirs, 40 pumps, 73 radiators, and 212 miscellaneous accessories.
Yes this is not about video games directly but indirectly this will impact the pc gaming/workstation space hard.
This company is massive one of two in the water cool space so if it goes poof then thousands out there have no spare parts or half built computers.
SO yeah i know not about a video game but think of it as amd leaving the pc space but this is ekwb that could be leaving water cooling in the pc space
Jayz2cents a supporter of there products also has issues
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As someone that has built a watercooling rig. EK is big, but there's so many numerous watercooling part companies out there. EK's stuff isn't exactly amazing quality for the price compared to others either, it's just ok. Much like Corsair. The impact would be negligible long term. For perspective the majority of my parts are XSPC, at most I use EK for my gpu waterblocks and fittings. Both easily replaceable.
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Lol, no.
I was involved with the CGS. It had serious sponsors Microsoft, Dell, Mountain Dew etc and had worldwide TV exposure on Sky, Star and Direct networks. The viewing figures were terrible and it was cancelled at the end of the second season.
Gamers watch games on Twitch and other live streams. They do not watch it on TV. The Olympics is a TV event. None gamers will not watch VideGaming as a "sports entertainment" product and gamers won't watch games on Tv. Olympic football tournament for eg - football (thats soccer for you US guys that have a sport called FOOTball where you use your HANDS to play it lol) are of little interest to "real" football fans, we have the world cup for that...
The Olympics have plenty of other "real" sports that don't even get included. Leave e-sports out of it, the none gaming public derision at seeing "nintendo" in the Olympics would do more harm than good.
The first thing eSports needs to do is create more national tournaments and generate mainstream recognition. Which is happening to varying degrees.
Throwing eSports in to the Olympics is not the way to do it and would probably set eSports back as it's not yet ready to be taken seriously by the mainstream public.