The Rivalry Cooldown

017 Overwatch is NOT the end all be all ft. Bryce Blum & Nahaz | The Rivalry Cooldown Take a breather, refresh, and join us on the Rivalry Cooldown, where we give you the current topics in esports from the experts. On this episode, we interrupt a little bit less and explore the diversification and business models of esports a lot more. Bryce's firm represents a huge list of tier 1 esports orgs and talent and has extensive experience at looking at venture capitol trends, esports stories, and...

016 Conversations, not Crusades | DPC, Nigma, and Riot ft. KeepingitKyle & Nahaz | The Rivalry Cooldown Take a breather, refresh, and join us on the Rivalry Cooldown, where we give you the current topics in esports from the experts. On this episode, Kyle calls in at 2am from Taipei (from his phone), and even in his robot moments he and Nahaz debate passionately about breaks in the DPC schedule, we discuss the business sense (or lack of) from Team Nigma, why the Trent vs Bulldog debate...

015 Fight for Your Right to Broadcast | Developers Scramble vs Riot ft. Richard Lewis & Nahaz Take a breather, refresh, and join us on the Rivalry Cooldown, where we give you the current topics in esports from the experts. On this episode, we look at Riot Games' announcement of several new titles and what other developers need to do to compete. What can Bluehole do with PUBG? Will Valve's new player experience in Dota compete? Can Blizzard dig themselves out of the hole they are in? AND...

014 Protect Our Right To Speak Up - The Blizzard Hong Kong Controversy ft. Nahaz & Richard Lewis On this episode, we take a deep dive into the insane mess that was Blizzard's handling of the Hong Kong protest being supported by one of their Hearthstone players. We discuss the geopolitical climate around China, economic implications, the impacts Blizzard will be feeling in their stock and future game development, and how we as consumers, fans, and industry members can do something - even in...

013 Almost NONE of the Systemic Issues Have Been Addressed ft Zfreek& Nahaz On this episode, we take a look at TI, OG as repeat champions, and try to understand what exactly will happen with the DPC moving forward. We usually spend a lot of time talking about what players want, so we thought we would have Zak (Zfreek) come on and give us ACTUAL insights about what pros want!

12 International Insights ft. KBBQ, V1lat, & D2Bowie On this episode, we did things a little bit differently, and took a look at past episodes and interviews to get an International insight into different aspects of scenes we don't know as much about - specifically China, CIS, and SA. Excerpts from the experts help us navigate different questions for each region, and prepare us to tune into the largest tournament Dota has seen to date.

011 Fixing T2 Dota: It's Simple Math ft. V1lat & Nahaz Take a breather, refresh, and join us on the Rivalry Cooldown, where we give you the current topics in esports from the experts. On this episode, we take a look at the DPC as a whole - asking both if the system got the right teams to TI and if the system rewarded teams effectively for their performance throughout the year. From there, we discuss how to address Tier 2 Dota, reward TOs, reintroduce revenue streams, and check in with an...

010: FaZeUp? How About Lawyer Up ft. SirScoots & Nahaz Take a breather, refresh, and join us on the Rivalry Cooldown, where we give you the current topics in esports from the experts. This week we dive into the lovely world of esports contracts! Denial not paying their players, Tfue and the FaZe situation, Dota 2 tournament's and their laundry list of payment issues - we have it all! SirScoots work with the Players Association and Nahaz's professional and esports experience make them the...

009: Dota Pro Circuit AMA "We are a smarter Community" ft. KBBQ & Nahaz Let's start with PPD's Twitter! And then move on to Jack & Nahaz answering any and all Dota Pro Circuit questions as we continue the DPC discussion from our previous episode of the Rivalry Cooldown. This was live streamed on Twitch with questions sourced from chat and Reddit.

008: Everything Wrong with the DPC ft. KBBQ & Nahaz Take a breather, relax, recharge, and join us on The Rivalry Cooldown, where we give you an unfiltered view on the current topics in esports from the experts. On this week's episode, we go over EVERYTHING about the DPC - past systems, current, and the future. What works? What doesn't? What would Jack's dream DPC be?

007: Valve makes A LOT OF MONEY outside of Dota ft. Richard Lewis & Nahaz Take a Breather, Recharge, and join us on The Rivalry Cooldown, where we give you an unfiltered view on the current topics in esports from the experts. We pick up where we left off on the last episode with diving right into eventual market corrects in esports, potential advantages and drawbacks of the CoD franchise, possibility of Valve franchising, and eviscerating Artifact for a while.

006: The Rivalry Cooldown - Predatory Practices in Corporations 101 ft. Nahaz & Richard Lewis Take a Breather, Recharge, and join us on The Rivalry Cooldown, where we give you an unfiltered view on the current topics in esports from the experts. We discuss the potential impacts of Article 13, Twitch aren't the friendly guys in purple hoodies you think they are, loot boxes, problems with Anthem, EA layoffs, and the incredibly ineptitude of esports CEOs to have good PR.

005: The Rivalry Cooldown: Developer Disaster Returns ft. Nahaz, Richard Lewis, Sajedene, and Slasher Take a Breather, Recharge, and join us on The Rivalry Cooldown, where we give you an unfiltered view on the current topics in esports from the experts. For this episode we have esports journalists Richard Lewis and Slasher, economist and Dota 2 analyst Nahaz, and event organizer/player and talent manager/streamer Sajedene BACK to discuss our favorite topic - develop disasters. This time we...

004: The Rivalry Cooldown: Power Dynamics ft. Richard Lewis, Nahaz, Sajedene, and Slasher Take a Breather, Recharge, and join us on The Rivalry Cooldown, where we give you an unfiltered view on the current topics in esports from the experts. For this episode we have esports journalists Richard Lewis and Slasher, economist and Dota 2 analyst Nahaz, and event organizer/player and talent manager/streamer Sajedene to discuss power dynamics in esports, lack of incentives for speaking up, and...

003: The Rivalry Cooldown: Community Manager PLEASE ft. Nahaz, Capitalist, & Greg Laird Take a Breather, Recharge, and join us on The Rivalry Cooldown, where we give you an unfiltered view on the current topics in esports from the experts. For this episode we have Keeper of the Stats Nahaz, the 7k MMR TI caster Capitalist, and Chaos Esports Club CEO (Dota, CSGO, Rainbow 6, PUBG) Greg Laird to discuss tournament seeding, attempting to break even when organizing tournaments, the Ellie...

002: The Rivalry Cooldown - Developer Disaster Pt. 2 ft. SirScoots, Nahaz, Richard Lewis, and SirActionSlacks Take a Breather, Recharge, and join us on The Rivalry Cooldown, where we give you an unfiltered view on the current topics in esports from the experts. This episode we have SirScoots, Nahaz, Richard Lewis, and SirActionSlacks to talk everything developers. Did Blizzard destroy HOTS from the start? How much does Valve care about communicating? Will anyone as Riot be punished for...

001: The Rivalry Cooldown - Developer Disaster Part 1 ft. Richard Lewis, Nahaz, and SirScoots Take a Breather, Recharge, and join us on The Rivalry Cooldown, where we give you an unfiltered view on the current topics in esports from the experts. This month we have SirScoots, Nahaz, and Richard Lewis to talk about esports integrity, esport league structure, developer choices & support, and some of the top news stories they are currently following. Let's dive in.