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ESL Gaming partners with cryptocurrency platform coinbase, partnership commenced today

ESL Gaming partners with cryptocurrency platform coinbase, partnership commenced today

Popular esports company ESL Gaming has partnered with coinbase, the cryptocurrency platform.

With the partnership coinbase has become the official crypto exchange partner for ESL and will support key ESL events such as the PRO Tours for games like CSGO, StarCraft II, and Warcraft III throughout 2021 and 2022.

This is a partnership between two like-minded companies at the forefront of technology and innovation,” said Eli McCarrel, Director Global Brand Partnerships at ESL Gaming. “We look forward to bringing Coinbase into the ESL family and integrating them into future ESL initiatives. This is an industry-shifting partnership and we couldn’t be more excited for what’s ahead.

“In its early days, few people foresaw the potential of esports becoming the vibrant and robust thing it is today,” said Eryn Alexander, Brand Director at Coinbase“We believe the crypto-economy is on a similar trajectory, and we’re thrilled to find partners like ESL who share our sense of foresight and optimism.”

Coinbase had also partnered with BLAST Premier, another popular esports company for BLAST Premier: Spring Season 2021.

This is a big news and it’s great to see more and more non-endemic brands invest into esports. With the TSM FTX deal and deals like these, we’re seeing esports and crypto industry go hand in hand. This shows that cryto companies see esports as a potential market that they can tap into.

The partnership commenced today with the start of IEM Cologne 2021, which is the first CSGO studio LAN event after the pandemic. Since IEM Katowice 2020 which took place early last year, back in February 2020, all esports tournaments were moved to an online format due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. Now that the situation has improved, IEM Cologne 2021, is taking place in Cologne, Germany without any live audience.


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