Eddy 🔜 Convergence Fest

The vibe check from outside is that collegiate is filled with grifters and folks that don't know anything--some intentionally malicious, others misguided, others desperate. I look at collegiate esports and see people who have never worked in the industry trying to show students the ropes that they've never held themselves. I see folks enticing children to join their schools with promises of championship trophies in leagues that don't matter and skill development for games that dont have an ecosystem. A future with their name in lights and a jersey to frame, worst case scenario, a real job in this world we (they) call "eSports". None of this is realistic. Collegiate esports have a great potential to help students and schools but right now it seems like the main people benefitting are the folks in the middle: the ones hiding behind the fact that this industry is in its infancy and as a result the people above and below them know even less than they do. I understand that sometimes the narrative is off a bit, but for this long? It feels like the blind leading the blind at best. Even in a world where this is completely untrue, it's telling that the reputation of the vast majority of this space is negative, more specifically unscrupulous. There are some people doing good work for sure, but they seem to be the exceptions to the rule. I would love to learn that I'm wrong and that my other experiences were the actual exceptions.