The Stanz Show

We talk about NA Valorant Challengers and the fall of the top North American teams with Sentinels, Faze, and GenG falling before making it to close qualifiers. Is Sentiels still the best team in NA? Next, we talk about TSMU and discuss esports organizations' staying power and source of revenue. Finally, we talk about Activision Blizzard's new CMO, the Burger King guy (Fernando Machado).

We talk about Golden Guardians saving the melee scene; picking up players and content creators (None, PPMD, and Toph) and giving $50k to Super Smash Bros Melee tournaments. Then we talk about the FBI looking into match-fixing, specifically into Shanks, Poised, and Marved. What will this mean for these Valorant players moving forward? Finally, the Call of Duty League gets professional as Toronto Ultra player Cammy says some unsavory things.

We talk about the 100 Thieves drama and their fine by Riot for their delay of the match during the VCT Valorant Masters Tournament. They delayed their match against Immortals, posted about it, and threw a bit of a tantrum on Twitter. Then we talked about the dichotomy of Mr.Beast and Jake Paul and their business ventures and what it means for the content creation space. Finally, we touch on melee titan and Twitch streamer Mang0 getting a three day ban, and a message to those who blame body-positive streamers as a result.

We talk about Cloud9 and the release of their CSGO roaster dubbed the "Colossal" (it was colossal dog). Then we talk about the free-agent marketplace in Valorant and some big players that are up for grabs like Brax and Floppy. Finally, we touch on the death of Fortnite esports. Epic Games has banned wager matches of top Fortnite players, this is the competitive end of Fortnite.

In this episode, we talk about the rumors that Microsoft is going to buy Discord for $10 billion and the logistics behind that. Then we talk about my queen Kaceytron being bullied by Minecraft stans on Twitter. Finally, we talk about Fifa Ultimate Team and how much time and money it takes to make a good team (it's a lot).

In this episode, we talk about Bobby Codec and laying off 50-200 Activision/Blizzard employees for a $200 million dollar bonus. Mogul moves or mogul poo-ves? Then we talk about Sony buying the Evo tournament series and how that's going to work with Nintendo and their licensing. Finally, we talk about one of the best Rocket League players to ever do it (behind me) G2 Rizzo retiring.

In this episode, we talk about TenZ joining Sentinels for Valorant Masters and briefly touch on the Sinatraa situation. We also discuss Microsoft buying Bethesda Studios in-order to increase the Xbox Game Pass (and not much else). Finally, ROBLOX.