Ulrich Schulze
10.7K posts
Ulrich Schulze
@theflyingdj
SVP Game Ecosystems @ ESL FACEIT Group. I spend my days creating big esports things.
Joined June 2011
- Liquipedia is the unsung hero of all of esports.
- ENCE spent all of 2018 grinding qualifiers, Astralis played a single one that year and got invited to everything else. Today they meet in the Major final. The beauty of an open ecosystem.
- On Monday, @IEM Katowice 2020 is kicking off: $500,000 in prize money All matches bo3 12 of the top 15 teams attending 7th year of CS:GO in Katowice Bring it on!
- "benching" a player is not used correctly in CS:GO. A player is put on the bench temporarily, to be brought back at some point. He keeps his jersey on. Benched players in CS:GO are essentially sent to shower, get dressed, pack their suitcase and wait for the bus to pick them up.
- The changes Valve announced to the CS ecosystem will come into play in 2025. All competitions will be based on ranking/qualifiers from 2025 on. Implementing the vision Valve shared with us, we’ve been working on adjustments to our events (our flagships are already there).
- Replying to @theflyingdjWe will shift our tournament revenue sharing model from selected teams to all teams participating starting in 2025. We will announce more details on this in the coming months.
- #ESLOne Cologne in 2020: $1,000,000 prize pool Teams qualifying through ESL Pro Tour No more bo1's Ticket sales started yesterday. Don't wait too long, we sell out faster every year.
- Security will be very strict at ESL One Cologne this year - leave your backpacks and bags at home please.
- Seeing some uncertainty among Brazilian fans about what the announcement of the Stockholm Major means for the Rio Major (and tickets bought), so reposting what we stated back then. You can keep your tickets because we will return.
- The delay on yesterday's final EPL match was caused by a targeted external attack against individual players. After we identified the issue, the match could resume. We have taken several measures to mitigate this for upcoming matches, and have also relayed our findings to Valve.
- In these tweets last night, dead references a clip from a different match in a non-ESL event which was also discovered but which is not within our jurisdiction. The TO has been notified. The ban we issued was based on an ESL One Road to Rio match though, where a clip exists, too.
- Bad News Eagles continuing to fund themselves through sticker revenue.
