What's going on guys and welcome back into the Watch Time podcast? We got a lot of very

exciting things to talk about today including a lot of the new e-sports

conversations that have been happening recently,

teams popping up out of nowhere founded by creators, a bunch of drama happening in the

community, Morphe dropping Jeffrey Star, as well as a bunch of other really interesting topics.

Grace, how you doing today?

I'm good, I'm good. It's been, it's a Monday night now here, but it's been a little bit of a hectic weekend we've had a

bunch of campaigns going live over the last few days a few new game titles

releasing which is exciting but generally means for a few sleepless nights as well but that's okay

how are you going? Good good it's been a pretty pretty hectic few days I've actually

really because I feel like you've actually had a chill weekend. Okay I got out of town. actually I did get out of town. I actually like I think for the first time in like eight months probably I wasn't in the office for a space of two days and yeah I went I went spear fishing't really spear any fish, but it was cool.

And then also, yeah, then came back yesterday to have two sponsored videos that I had to get done in less than like eight

hours because they all needed to get posted and approved and yesterday was the hectic one.

Yeah, okay well at least you have a chill wakened. Do you actually cash any fish?

I didn't the people I was specifically with did though. I mean like look all right. It was literally first time okay it was my first time I can't yeah I can't I can't expect no judgment no judgment

Thank you thank you take the game we're out of the office and see what happens. Exactly, exactly. Okay, let's jump into it because what I want to talk about first this week is the rise of a couple of new e-sports teams that we've seen happen.

So over the last two weeks, obviously our good friend Laughlin launched his team Power, which is

super cool.

And then just over the past week we saw the start of the 1% Fortnite House or

e-sports team. So that's a group of guys that were previously with luminosity gaming and since left and I think left with a couple of their employees as well and started their own team.

And I think it poses a couple of really interesting questions that I know we talk about really frequently around why creators are starting

E-sports teams when they're not necessarily like professional e-sports players themselves like Laughlin, you know, why they're doing it, what's important about starting an e-sports team and when creators kind of get too big for the orgs that maybe helped them get there,

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