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The Eavesdrop Podcast

Adam Apicella | The MLG Origin Story |

The Eavesdrop Podcast

HECZ

Video Games, Leisure, Technology

52K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

This week we had Adam Apicella on The Eavesdrop to discuss the origin story of MLG and how Adam went from hosting $400 LAN tournaments with his friends to running some of the most prestigious esports events in the world.

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0:00.0

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the long awaited for me personally, from the people in the scenes.

0:17.0

Episode number 50 brought to you by Mug Jeans, and Door Dash.

0:24.0

Thank you for coming back.

0:25.8

We have a very special guest, one of my closest friends in the industry, and I hope that he feels the same way.

0:31.2

Mr. Adam Apicella, the man the myth, the legend. Employee number one in

0:35.8

MLG, I'm gonna hype you up real quick. Employee number one at MLG, no single event in

0:40.1

e-sports history from the MOG side has been ran by more than how many people?

0:47.7

What's the question? Okay how many people that's take to run an

0:51.1

MGL event? Oh a lot lot. I mean, a couple hundred.

0:54.4

A couple hundred people, right?

0:55.9

But you have a skeleton crew of 20.

0:58.2

Of 20.

0:59.1

Yeah.

1:00.1

And you were still, for 20, how long did you run M. Well, M. L. G. Pre acquisition 13 years and then three years of

1:06.9

Activision Blizzard where we're still sort of like a little splinter cell there.

1:09.6

So 16 years and you did it all way under budget, you did it all with a shoestring budget that a company that has all the money in the world could have given you to throw one of the dopest events ever and you still delivered every single time.

1:24.2

CS Go casters to this very day herald the CS Go event that you threw and you had the

1:31.4

dopest, dopest, dopest trophy that has ever been made in the history of

1:35.8

E-sports. It had the carambines, the carambines, the carambits? The carambits?

1:39.9

What do they call it? Car carambit. Carambit.

1:43.0

Crambit's.

1:44.0

Is that you pronounce it?

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