The Esports World Cup (EWC) has selected 40 esports organizations for its 2025 EWC Foundation Club Partner Program. This $20 million initiative aims to support major teams like Fnatic, G2 Esports, and T1. Launched to foster sustainability among multidisciplinary esports clubs, the program saw over 150 applications last year, with 30 organizations joining initially. This year, the number of participants increased to 40. Each organization can receive up to $1 million to enhance their brand and audience through marketing efforts during the EWC 2025. Selection criteria included performance in the 2024 Club Championship, multi-game potential, social media presence, and fan engagement strategies. Eight clubs were directly invited based on their 2024 rankings, while 19 joined for the first time and 21 returned from the previous year. The program also targets high-growth regions, including six clubs from China, and teams from Japan, India, and LATAM. Tencent E-Sports facilitated applications for 20 Chinese teams.
JMeyels
@jmeyels
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Feb 22 Sweet acknowledges the removal of the Partnership program is true and the assistance with player salaries seems to have subsided.
He also notes the future of the esport seems unknown at this point. Full discord statement.
Alex Gonzalez
@AlexGLogics
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Mar 9 The industry is in a pretty rough spot, historic orgs limited to one or two esports titles and not signing any new creators.
For those being overly critical, take a look around and see who else is offering any type of opportunities at all – not many.
Varun Bhavnani
@AxDestruction
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Feb 3 bgmi esport org owners finally finding a symphony & bawling over sponsorship regulations that has plagued this ecosystem for yrs. I guess daddy’s money or VC tap drying out? We’ve been vocal about since yrs is no excuse, you didn’t have a business then, you don’t have one now.
Kendrew
@Kxndrew
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Jan 27 Not gonna make a sob story because we’re not the only ones this has happened too but I hope in the future people are quicker not to judge players/teams because this has been building for abit, warning signs were showing post EWC with late payments and playing for 50% Prize Pool.
KC Kaiii
@K4iii_
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20h The problem is that esport is shit in term of business, so if teams want to survive they have to take money that they got given…
KC maybe could survive without this but GenG has a lot of problems rn and the reason why they did not keep lehends for exemple is that money…
Ducks
@babyducksss
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1h A scene could exist but be dead … esports prime was crypto, lots of orgs cited financial problems pre EWC. But it still looks bad, since orgs are cutting teams and only resigning once they get funding from EWC. Then once EWC is over they drop them.
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