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Example:
https://x.com/eswcgg/status/1788916999705300993?s=46&t=fo4YOiRU-x4N5EEpe5bwCQ
$2m purse for Apex Legends (btw Guild no longer competes in this title)
$600K for first place
80-90% of the $600k goes to the players
Which nets $60-$120K for Guild
The $5m referenced earlier represents the aggregate purse across the titles Guild competes in at EWC.
The $20m Club Championship purse is in addition to this, but only applies toward the Top 16 teams. So technically Guild has a chance to earn additional $$$, but given 1) how few titles they compete in vs their competitors and 2) how uncompetitive their teams/players are, it’s a long shot that Guild makes the Top 16 (let alone Top 5).
We’re reading different threads - Copy & pasted. I cannot see where you pulled $5m from:
The Club Championship, an innovative cross-game competitive format unique to the EWC, will award a total of $20 million to the top 16 clubs based on their overall performance. The Club Championship is a new format focusing on multi-game competitions, with each Club selecting the games they want to compete in. At the event's conclusion, the Club with the best performance across various game championships will be crowned the world's first Esports World Cup Club Champion.
The remaining prize pool will be divided into three additional distribution categories: Game Championships, MVP Awards, and Qualifiers. Each of the 20 Game Championships will have their own prize pool with a combined total exceeding $33 million. In addition, a $50,000 MVP Award will be awarded to a standout participant in each competition. More than $7 million will be awarded before the Game Championships start, as teams and athletes compete to qualify for available tournament spots across eligible qualifier events run by partnered Publishers and event organizers.
No, Guild only competes in the following EWC titles:
Street Fighter ($1.1m total purse)
EAFC ($1.1m total purse)
Counterstrike ($1m total purse)
Fortnite ($1m total purse)
SIM Racing ($500k total purse)
Plus misc club/player bounties
That’s ~$5M total, but bear in mind 1st Place is around 40% of the total purse, then Guild needs to pay out 80-90% of those winnings to the players. So best case, Guild would only be entitled to ~$200k-$400k.
https://files.bo3.gg/uploads/image/39996/image/webp-3c515e2683d4f3b7629a1b2d23fece0f.webp
I personally have huge concerns with the irrelevancy of the titles they currently compete in, and how poor their team rankings are.
Also, Guild’s entries into SIM Racing, Street Fighter, etc are clearly subsidised by the Saudi EWC Club Program, which is very short-sighted. Building their business around one event is far from strategic (or lucrative). Guild alluded to this partnership mysteriously in the past, but it’s now official.
https://polaris.brighterir.com/public/guild_esports/news/rns/story/ry7ze8r
https://polaris.brighterir.com/public/guild_esports/news/rns/story/xjdmkkx
$20m divided between the top 16 clubs.
So a #1 placement could see a return of more than the current market cap. In theory this share is then currently free on forward moving projections ?
100% from the year low,
Bring on the games 🏆
Mates rates days may be behind us??
According to Companies House, there's been a filing today for an allotment of some 66,666,667 shares for the sum of £250k. I think Compassare may have therefore exercised their right under the CLN agreement to take shares - £250k divided by the number of shares gives the conversion price agreed under the terms of the CLN (0.375p). They clearly must believe there's value over and above the return of 8% which they would have received in interest. Interesting, if it's them, that they've done this so early after the CLN agreement...
Will today be the day for fireworks, ??
Sneaking up nicely
Couple nice buys today
Market starting to take notice, if we can land a sponsor pre-WC that would blow the doors off
Awaiting a TR - 1
Will becks be buying stock ?
A show of confidence in the team to help push this back to its year high,
Added a small price for becks birthday this morning.
Have a good one pal,
Thanks, standard LSE, delay on RNS again. glad i dont pay the premium.
There's an Rns out https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/GILD/guild-joins-the-esports-world-cup-club-program/16456080
I held this for years but I'm currently out , but still follow it, this will be massive imo in time, but for me company cash flow is my issue to not reinvest yet 😬
RNS due? currently up 55%
Not much love for the #GILD at the moment but suspect it will come
Really shocked the EWC has not got wider attention yet, just a couple of us and the tumbleweeds (unless we are the tumbleweeds?)
I've seen stocks with much less going for them do 200% on news and anticipation like what GILD is offering, LVCG anyone recall when that did nearly 500% on a KPOP concert? MOS did quite a bit as well at one stage, not to put GILD in the same boat but the potential here is enormous and yet the market still ignores it.
Cash perhaps? We haven't raised much but I am sure we need to do at least one more strategic raise of some sort
What happened to the 00Nation 'commercial agreement'
MIddle east investment of £250K seems to be paying off either way
Https://x.com/eswcgg/status/1787467602232508731?s=46&t=bV650os50fvQsvaGRrx5Gw
Just seeing from Twitter (X) that Guild appear to have released their female CS2 team - I'm wondering if they will do the same with the men's team and pivot away from CS2 given poor results and replace with signings of players in more of the sports featured in the World Cup to go after the club prize money? Would seem a pretty sensible move to me... Even if they didn't make a cost saving in the players' wages in signing new players, they'd be able to spread themselves over numerous titles in the WC, thus expanding their presence there - good for potential sponsors.....
Excuse my swing from $ to £ there, point stands!
It's a massive swing Snow and I think the industry has realised that as e-sports grow and these organisers / sponsors get a huge ROI, the clubs need a good percentage of it to survive. The collapse of FAZE from a $1bn valuation to Zero at the end of 2023 really highlighted this and told the industry, pay the clubs or e-sports will plateau.
The increase of the WC CLUB prize money from $5m to $20m this year shows that the industry is moving more towards club prize money, which could be monumental.
A couple years back Guild won the FCNS finals in which the player prize money was $1m, just last year Guilds total PLAYER prize money was $1.2m USD, in which they only made about $126K because most of this rightly so goes to the players. If these tournaments start matching player money with club money, or dare I say even more (like the sim racing tournament) then that $1.2m PLAYER prize money also becomes an additional £1.2m club prize money, which would be very high margin and almost like a $1m USD cash injection for GILD simply out of their existing operations.
As I have said investing in esports clubs is very risky, but at £1.5m cap theres no better RvR play out there on any stock exchange IMO. Of course it could go to zero, but that's the chance I take. DYOR not investment advice.
It’s good to see Guilds progress in Sim Racing.
Let hope more Esports tournaments are going to include Orgs within the prize pool like this one.
Rewarding players but most important rewarding Orgs within the prize pool, that will secure the future of Esports teams.
Today 07:00
RNS Number : 7034M
Guild Esports PLC
01 May 2024
Press release
1 May 2024
Guild Esports PLC
("Guild Esports", "Guild", or "the Company")
Guild joins 'ESL R1' Sim Racing Championship
Guild Esports PLC (LSE: GILD; OTCQB: GULDF), a global gaming-focused media business, announces that it has entered ESL R1, a sim racing championship.
ESL R1 offers significant prize money, with a $100,000 prize pool for drivers and $400,000 for teams. The tournament was created through a partnership between esports organiser and production company ESL and Rennsport, an upcoming sim racing game. It is confirmed to feature in the Esports World Cup (EWC) in August 2024.
Really is make or break for Guild in the next 3 months, I took some stock last week for another go
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/esports-world-cup-to-feature-record-breaking-prize-pool-of-more-than-60-million-302118030.html#:~:text=The%20Club%20Championship%2C%20an%20innovative,they%20want%20to%20compete%20in.
This really is an incredible opportunity for GILD, however the company needs to be more transparent with investors. A presentation perhaps to explain how they are going to approach the Esports World Cup
- $20m club money on the line (this isn't player prize money, $45m for that, this is club money aka high margin cash in the bank)
- Distributed to the top 16 Esports teams at the WC based on performance for the first time ever
- One club will be crowned champion of the world (sponsor money would be massive for this)
There are 19 titles at the WC, I am not sure how many GULD have qualified for or been invited to. Looks like they failed to qualify for CS2
They are quite strong in Street Fighter, Fortnite and FIFA (which are three of the titles) however to get into the top 16 you'd think they will need to win all three of those which would likely put them in the top 5-10) even with no points from other platforms
As I've said, this event should be heavily backed by sponsors and if it is a recurring yearly event then it truly is a game changer for e-sports, lets hope its a very profitable event for all.
As for GILD, investor presentation needed in the coming weeks.
Is anyone on here that could give me a link to a TG group for Gild. Thanks in advance
Nice, Guild are listed in the latest eWorld Cup marketing as one of the main clubs/orgs that will be competing.