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The Eavesdrop Podcast

Sundance | Co-Founder of MLG

The Eavesdrop Podcast

HECZ

Video Games, Leisure, Technology

52K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

This week I sat down with my longtime friend and mentor Sundance DiGiovanni to talk through his journey since he founded MLG in 2002. We discussed the early days of MLG and how Sundance has developed MLG into what it is today.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode number 34 of the eavesdrop podcast.

0:17.0

One of my mentors, one of my closest friends I consider you a friend obviously.

0:26.0

We met in early or late 2009 for the first time.

0:29.6

I've obviously at that point I already known who you were you know you had already

0:33.2

built MLG and and were up and running you know this wasn't during the

0:38.1

halo hey days and you know it's not often that you get to were, were you the commissioner at some, what did you did it off?

0:46.4

So I was the, I was like the brand and community guy, right?

0:51.1

So John Nelson Anakin was our commissioner from like way

0:53.5

earlier after our first event basically he came and saved us well second and so I was

1:01.0

before you this is Sundance I know like I didn't introduce you the way I wanted to

1:07.3

Not that I'm nervous just a tiny bit but I've been I've been waiting to do this podcast for such a long time that it I kind of got my brain all

1:14.4

jumbled up.

1:15.4

So with us today, Sundance DiJovani, co-founder of Major League Gaming.

1:22.7

I'm here today because of what the platform that he built

1:27.6

for everybody to play in.

1:29.5

The, you know, Flames sort is on that Red Bull can,

1:32.0

Ninjas on that Red Bull can ninjas on that Red Bull can I can point at the

1:35.9

call of duty is on here because of the work that you and the rest of the

1:41.6

M. L. G. team did so thank you.

1:45.0

No, thank you for that.

1:46.4

Obviously a ton of people went into all of that and

1:49.2

but they're not here.

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