With the acquisition of Blitz, it really helps build our portfolio where we can leverage Blitz to help what we're doing on the esports side. Dinh said he hopes to use the Blitz app to find potential future League of Legends pros. Dinh said SoloMid will use Blitz to help identify players for similar opportunities in the future. The Blitz desktop app allows League of Legends players to track their match history, review suggested champion runes and item builds and provides both positive and negative feedback after the conclusion of games.
The software is one of many that have been released within the past few years that work to improve players skill sets based off of game data. Dinh said that the app was an attractive product because of its ability to allow users to focus on their in-game mechanics, without worrying about extra hassle.
The acquisition will also help enhance features for ProBuilds and LoL Counter, two websites that offer similar services to Blitz and have been long-standing pieces of the SoloMid Corporation portfolio. Both ProBuilds and LoL Counter now sport a website header that encourages user to download and use the Blitz desktop app. Swift was founded in December as SoloMid began to raise its first major investment round.
Team SoloMid was founded in September by Dinh and has since become one of the most popular esports brands around the globe. Skip to main content Skip to navigation. Insomniac Games at the forefront of the PlayStation 5's release. Microsoft's Phil Spencer on Xbox's new approach to gaming. The top 15 PlayStation 5 games to play on release. Los Angeles Dodgers. A's Luzardo breaks pinkie playing video game. Oakland Athletics. Arizona Cardinals. Amazing feet: WR Jefferson's dance in Fortnite.
Minnesota Vikings. Olympic bodies launch series in virtual sports. And they do that all manually TSM wants to automate that. According to Forbes , Team SoloMid tied with Cloud 9 as the world's most valuable esports company in In addition to its professional sports teams, TSM also employs a host of streamers and content creators.
The foremost of these is Myth, who had 6. His fellow team members turned roommates Daequan and Hamlinz also have impressive followings. Combined, the three have over 9 million YouTube subscribers and over a billion total views. The trio rose to prominence playing Fortnite , but Myth has since ventured into plenty of other games. As you might imagine, big money can attract big names. To reflect his genuine interest in the team, Curry later appeared in a video with Myth and Hamlinz in Curry and Young are not the only mainstream sports figures to cross over into the virtual realm.
Former Los Angeles Laker Rick Fox famously owned the Echo Fox organization from to before his involvement met its unfortunate end. Shaquille O'Neal, Magic Johnson and Robert Kraft are some other notable esports investors from the world of traditional sports.
Undoubtedly, these established and well-known individuals are playing a major role in pushing esports further into the mainstream. The Overwatch League has 20 teams from 19 different cities or states separated into two conferences that follow a regular season and playoff format. There is even an All Star weekend. Its parity to many traditional sports leagues is apparent.
While other esports companies like Faze and NRG were quick to hop in, a TSM investment is notably absent from two of the biggest leagues. The organization has no professional Overwatch or Call of Duty teams. Dinh explained why : "In order for your esports investment to be good, your brand, and your team, needs to represent and outlive any particular title.
Dinh does not want his teams to be tied to the success of certain games. It had a roster of six pros, but the squad did not even survive a month. Cheating allegations surfaced about two of the team members from their days in CS:GO , and the organization decided it could not risk a poor reflection on the TSM brand.
So, the whole project was scrapped and the company has not touched Overwatch since. For most, it seems like building an international, multi-million dollar company would take a lifetime. However, Dinh has experienced massive success relatively early on in his life. As of this writing, he hasn't even celebrated his 30th birthday yet.
His impressive accomplishments attracted major media attention from the likes of Forbes magazine, which featured Dinh in its popular 30 Under 30 list for the gaming industry in Dinh is not the only TSM exec to make an appearance in the publication, however. Aileena Xu, the company's president of esports, featured in the edition of the 30 Under 30 list. Xu has been involved in TSM since the beginning, and she played an instrumental role in the teams' growth and popularity in relation to Fortnite.
Xu has not shied away from the limelight, either. She has made several appearances in videos with TSM creators and sometimes streams on Twitter herself. She also has a bit of a following on Reddit. Dinh was one of the first League of Legends players.
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