MAJOR Update! ThriveFantasy partnership, new milestones, more media coverage for Juked, and more!
Hey everyone! It's been an incredibly busy week so I thought I would roll up all of our updates into a single post. Enjoy.
ThriveFantasy x Juked
First off, I'm excited to announce that Juked has officially teamed up with ThriveFantasy for the League of Legends World Final (this Saturday, 3am PST, by the way) to promote a $500 freeroll competition.
This is our first step towards promoting and partnering in the world of fantasy esports, and is the first among many projects we have in he pipeline. Read more about the partnership here.
$670K+ reached on Republic!
As of writing this update, we are officially over $670,000 raised, meaning we now have less than $400K remaining in our Republic round. Of course, there's still time to invest, but if you want to make sure you have the opportunity to own a piece of the future of esports, now would be the time!
More media coverage for Juked
1. Technori podcast - I had a chance to join Scott Kitun on the Technori podcast to talk all things Juked. In the podcast, we cover my expectations (and rabid optimism) for the growth of esports over the next 10 years, and how we plan to seize this incredible opportunity. You can watch the video version of the podcast here.
2. Republic Superheroes blog - I sat down with Republic themselves to talk more about my personal background in esports, and our superpower as a company: our direct connection to the esports community. You can read the full interview here.
Our first steps towards localization
We're taking our first step towards localization within Juked this week as we launch consolidated stream switchers, which will allow non-English speakers to select their local language streams via a dropdown on esports tournament/match pages. Many esports tournaments on Juked have non-English streams in languages like French, German, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian, and we're excited to make those available to our global audience.
All for now! And see you in the next update.
Ben