Oceanic trio on new adventures

Elliott Griffiths
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Illustration by NovaH. Source: 100Thieves

This is not about games. This is about esports.

That's what the weirdly over-aggressive front page of Extremum's... eclectic looking website reads. Someone might want to tell them that, actually, esports is kind of about games. Like, that's the point. Competitive video games.

Why are we telling you this? Because Extremum are the organisation reportedly trying to sign the last three remaining Thieves, after the other 97 left for greener pastures, such as Complexity and Apeks.

This would mean liazz, Gratisfaction and AZR would be flanked by two Europeans and based in Europe, building another international roster, which we are all for.

"WE DON’T WANT TO BE THE BEST ESPORTS BRAND. WE ARE BIGGER THAN ESPORTS. WE ARE YOUNG. WE ARE FRESH. WE ARE THE NEW GENERATION." blares their, for some reason, all-black and white website.

Finally, the Australian team are away from the poser brand who cares more about image and merchandise than gaming.

We're glad the three players look to have finally found a home, and adding two European players could make that roster really interesting. We're looking forward to smooya's inevitable trial before moving on to find another team to trial for, like Ravel Morrison or something.

But, it will be a real shame for the Aussie fans to have to support another clothing brand that doesn't seem to like esports. This org doesn't even seem to like games. They want to be 'bigger than esports', which seems quite difficult to achieve by becoming an esports org.

November 1, 2020

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