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Why Team Liquid participated in the Esports World Cup in Saudi Arabia | Steve Arhancet interview
Steve Arhancet of Team Liquid, took a measured look whether his esports team should participate in the Esports World Cup.
He noted that the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud changed a couple of hundred laws two years ago that affected the welfare of women and youth. We went to the market – institutional, private equity, sports team owners and the like – and we ended up really falling for Ted Leonsis and Peter Guber, who respectively have ownership and run the Wizards and the Capitals, and then the Dodgers and the Golden State Warriors. When Riot came out and gave DOTA a run for its money, they bet on this idea that esports was a phenomenal marketing engine to protect the downside of your game slowly dying over time.
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