Commercial and Contractual Stability in Esports | Adam Whyte

2. Commercial and Contractual Stability
In Esports
Ending the Wild West with Smart Contracts

3. CONTRACTS
PAYMENTS
DATA

4. Edge Story: Law, sports, gaming, tech
CEO qualifies as a sports
lawyer
2009
Youngest lead counsel at CAS & UEFA
2010
Sergio Aguero image rights
2011
Masters in Business
2015
Hearthstone player
2015
Ireland's ESTARS
May 2018
Head of Esports at Goat
2017
Edge Esports Launch
May 2018
David Yarnton joins
June 2018
MVP Launch
4 June 2019
POC for Digital Schoolhouse
September 2018
Lance Armstrong’s Doctor Case
2013

5. 1) Competitive Video Games
2) Spectated by masses
3) Skill-based games
What is esports?

9. Player Team League
Agency
Research
Agency
Lawyers
Accountants

10. Player Team League
Data
Provider
Lawyer?
Agent?
Sponsor?
Accountant?
Broadcaster

11. X

12. 1) What are the revenue streams?
2) Who provides contractual stability?
3) Who process invoices and payments?
4) Who provides authentic and verifiable data?
Key Questions

13. Revenue Streams
$1.1B (26.7%)
$456.7M (+34.3%)
$251.3M (+41.8%)
$189.2 (+14.8%)
$103.7M
$95.2M
TOTAL
SPONSORSHIP
MEDIA RIGHTS
ADVERTISING
MERCH & TIX
PUBLISHER FEES

14. Maintain
Contractual
Stability?

15. Problems?
Localised paper solutions
For
Global digital world

16. Adversarial?

19. Payments
and
Prize Money

20. Problems?
Localised paper solutions
For
Global digital world

21. “If you asked most people ‘what is one thing
that is holding esports back’, I would venture
to say a lot of them would mention the lack of
professionalism and… not paying out what
they contractually should... A way to guarantee
esports entities are held reliable to paying out
prize pools and delivering on player contracts
[is needed].”

23. Real Time
Authentic
Immutable Data

25. Alignment of interests
Direct from the source
Transparency of terms

27. Smart Contract Platform
Automate payments,
obligations, avoid disputes
For teams, leagues and brands

28. For updates on our platform. info@edge.gg