nowXiaobai NavigationIn the early hours of the morning, many Chinese players stayed up late to watch the APEX Legends World Championship.

The Dreamfire team from China finished seventh, and they received applause no less than the champions. This is a grassroots dream-chasing team without sponsors or clubs. The top player of the team was a painter two years ago. He painted during the day and played games and live-streamed at night. Now he relies on Weibo bonuses and live-streaming income to keep playing.

Besides Dreamfire, there is another interesting team – the third place BLVKHVND.

An unknown esportsDAO

BLVKHVND (Blackhand) is aDAO, a very poor e-sports clubDAO, initiated by several e-sports players in 2021. In the past three years, BLVKHVND has not been very smooth, and has experienced many things, big and small. There have been successes, failures, explorations, transformations, and several products in addition to competitions. But apart from a few highlights, most of the time I see a not very activeCommunityI am moving forward silently, walking in a place where no one cares. I will not talk about the things one by one, it is quite complicated. Although I am an early participant, I can only be regarded as a member of the plastic DAO. I have not invested much time, so I can't sort it out for the time being.

Last year, BLVKHVND's Pokémon team won the world championship. I was surprised at the time, but attributed this achievement to luck, after all, Pokémon United is not a mainstream project in the e-sports circle. When BLVKHVND team won the third place in the more mainstream APEX competition early this morning, it is definitely not appropriate to explain it with luck. This is an undiscovered gem, and I want to write something briefly.

Professional e-sports competitions have long been an area occupied by capital, but the poor have their own way of playing.

“For e-sports players, talent is probably the most important thing.”

Henry

Therefore, BLVKHVND's strategy is to start from the grassrootsCommunityFinding talented seedlings and making breakthroughs in weak areas has brought the champion of the Pokémon Grand Combine. Although Pokémon is a super game IP, it is still a small brother in the field of e-sports. Finding good seedlings and training them seriously will make it relatively easy to achieve results.

Last year's Pokémon champions

The team that won the third place this time also found a weak spot. APEX can be understood as the anime sci-fi version of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, and it ranks seventh in the global e-sports project. With a good mass base, regions with developed e-sports have formed professional teams around APEX and have good capital support. So BLVKHVND adopted a roundabout tactic and discovered a potential Indonesian team from the Asian region where APEX penetration is not high.

8.71 ETH

From the end of January to now, the total investment in creating this world third place BLVKHVND is – 8.71 ETH.

The starting point for the third place is a registration fee of 0.15 ETH (200 USD) (original text is in English, byAIMachine translation)

Officially signed a contract with the Indonesian guys for this season, 2.2 ethers per month for two months. The coach is the brother who applied for 0.15 ethers before.CommunityA professional e-sports coach.

Due to reaching the London play-offs, the DAO funded another 2.56 ETH through a proposal for training costs in London, and paid another 1.6 ETH in retroactive fees to the coaches last month.

8.71 ETH supported the entire season, and the team stood on the podium as the world third place. They were almost the world champions, and entered the final day of the finals with a 10-point lead. It was the first time for several young players to be so close to the world championship, and they performed poorly.

After this battle, BLVKHVND emerged as a club in the e-sports circle. It received dozens of hours of live broadcasts and 2.5 million viewers, and was reported by many e-sports media. Not only did it have an impact, but the third place prize was $210,000. According to the agreed ratio of 85:15, $31,500 will return to the DAO treasury. Although the money is not much, it has indeed recovered the investment and has a positive return.

BLVKHVND's season has not yet ended. The African guys they discovered are competing in the "PUBG: Mobile" African Championship and have great hopes of entering the World Championship.

The story has just begun

C u soon ❤

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