This is Space Cats Peace Turtles, the unofficial podcast for Fantasy Flight's Twilight Imperium.

Episode 419, Twilight Imperium, The Esport, Past and Future.

With music by Ben Prunty, art by Sun Sanders, produced by Shelton Brister, and hosted by

Matt and Hunter. You know, Alec, it has been a long time that we're, uh, long time that this organization, this, uh, nasty little corpo that we, that we kind of operate here,

has been invested in the world of competitive Twilight Imperium. And I always think to myself,

I always think back when it comes to discussing anything related to

e-sports and twilight Imperium. I always think back to you because, you know, however you

might feel about it today, the only reason that Twilight Imperium is an esport, maybe not the only reason.

Maybe that's being a little too dramatic.

But the first cause, the primary initial movement towards e-sports, it's just kind of your idea.

You just kind of brought it up one day.

I did push that snowball down the hill.

And it is one of the great ironies of my life.

Yeah.

It is an irony.

So we, you know, back in the day in 2019, 2018, 2019, we had been to Gen Con.

We had seen the Gen Con tournament, and we thought, wouldn't it be fun to do that online?

And honestly, we didn't think that much of it.

We didn't think it was going to be anything.

So we just said, I guess we'll do that.

And then we had it.

We'll do it with the Patreon.

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