Current Events > E-Sports Org Echo Fox Forced To Sell LoL Spot Due To Racist Major Shareholder

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legendarylemur
07/23/19 11:28:12 PM
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https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/ch0prm/echo_fox_to_sell_its_lcs_spot/

Echo Fox was famous for being created by Rick Fox as a passion project to bond with his son. Around the time, LoL e-sports was in the process of integrating franchising, and Echo Fox was easily able to secure a spot on the LoL pro circuit called LCS, in which one of the requirements was proof of investors from major parties to secure profitability and valuation. While Echo Fox in league hasn't ever really found stable success, I believe they were serious contenders in only a single split out of about 9-10 that's happened since Echo Fox's inception into the LCS. Currently they're the last place in the league, despite having one of the members who carried Echo Fox into relevancy at one point. Despite their LoL team, they've found success in their players in various other e-sports like Smash, MK11, or CoD and has become a household name over time.

Rick Fox himself has been a major spokesperson for the e-sports scene as a whole, despite any skepticism from the general public who are not e-sports savvy. He is widely beloved by the LoL community, often times the center of attention and memes. He is in one of the lowest leagues in LoL ranked, but upon the revelation, the entire community stepped up to try to tutor Rick Fox til he rose in rank. Rick Fox is also commonly found within the crowd, cheering for his team, even within their loss, many times surrounded by more fans clamoring for his attention than people do for his own team.

However, recently Rick Fox expressed outrage at a major shareholder of Echo Fox being a blatant racist as well as threatening Rick Fox's family. Fox claimed to quit as a shareholder of Echo Fox unless the said shareholder was outed from the company, and of course the entire community and Riot Games themselves took action to defend their scene sweetheart. Riot stamped their foot and proclaimed Echo Fox is no longer eligible for a spot at the LCS unless the said shareholder is outed from the company. It's been several months since then with mysterious extensions from Riot Games without explaining why an action hasn't been taken yet, but the news is finally out, and you can see what the result is from the Reddit post I've linked there.

https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/1126994013352017920

One such example of this guy's blatant racism.

And in an email:

"No deal and ic rick fox does not do his duties I will personally fuck him and his family for the rest of their lives in any way possible."


Clearly it's a case of an asshole having too much money for the good of a community. As the Reddit comments have said, most likely it won't directly affect the shareholder himself, and as of this moment, the current Echo Fox is gonna finish the split and disappear from the League scene to be sold to another org. The only big loss is the potential growth of the brand, as LoL is basically one of the most stable e-sports scene out there atm (don't let the articles about bubbles convince you otherwise. LoL scene grew organically, whereas scenes like Overwatch had a bunch of money thrown at it til it became a scene). Also tragic that it had to happen to Rick Fox. He's a real stand up guy
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PatrickMahomes
07/23/19 11:30:59 PM
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e-sports is a meme, who cares
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Number090684
07/23/19 11:35:03 PM
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Poor MKLeo he is probably the best Echo Fox has and doesn't deserve to work under a racist asshole and help them get any notority.
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legendarylemur
07/23/19 11:35:13 PM
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PatrickMahomes posted...
e-sports is a meme, who cares

The LoL scene is actually highly profitable. Almost every player in the league has 6-7 figures salary, and the most famous LoL player Faker is valued as one of the most highly grossing highly paid athletes in the world.

LoL itself has originated a bunch of multi-million dollar orgs, such as TSM and Team Liquid, Liquid in particular being well known for how grossly profitable the company is.
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legendarylemur
07/23/19 11:37:41 PM
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Number090684 posted...
Poor MKLeo he is probably the best Echo Fox has and doesn't deserve to work under a racist asshole and help them get any notority.

Yeah it's a shame, but most likely Echo Fox's other orgs won't be affected, which is also strange because you'd think other e-sports orgs would also put their foot down against racism.

Comes to show that Riot actually kinda did it right. They have to power to mandate this kinda thing, but something like a Smash tournament organizer really can't do with like mandating MKLeo unable to participate in their tournament unless something is done about that shareholder, since MKLeo is huge right now.
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