INTO THE BREACH ACADEMY

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rallen
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Thomas
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In principle, the same as our primary roster – provide infrastructure and support that is reliably funded, enabling opportunities for UK-based CS:GO players to develop and demonstrate their abilities.


That’ll be led by our Head of ITB Initiatives, BlaineUknighted, and our CS:GO Manager MrPunico, with LVN helping in no small way as an advisor.


We discussed this internally over a lengthy period. Our first step was to identify prior academy efforts, what they did, how they did it, and potential things we should avoid. We want to learn from history and not repeat past mistakes. I’d say there are three primary issues:

1) While we wish it weren’t the case, the ‘pool’ of potential in the UK is quite limited. This arbiters a sort of glass ceiling in which a majority UK academy stack will always struggle to break through.
2) Our resources are finite, and ultimately UK orgs that remain UK focused are usually the ones most financially restricted, while the wealthiest of us end up focusing on the EU and beyond. This makes sense for several reasons, business chief among them. The ones who can don’t and the ones who would can’t.
3) The reality is our main roster is at the level of other organisations academy rosters. You might say this is a consequence of one and two, though either way this means that our primary roster is still reliant on ESL UK, ESEA Advanced, and other such ‘mid-tier’ cups. There are plenty of unsigned teams in the same position, and we can’t sign them because they’d directly compete with our main roster and in some cases we can’t field two in the same tournament (ESL Premiership, for example). So, what to do with this? We decided on a balance.


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