Guild CEO on entering CS:GO: \u201cOur interest has been pulled in other areas but we\u2019re still considering it\u201d Guild Esports\/CS:GOBritish esports organization Guild are in some of esports\u2019 biggest titles and, in November 2020, they revealed that they were looking into Counter-Strike: Global Offensive as their next game of choice. Almost a year has passed since then and, as fans of the David Beckham-owned org will know, they\u2019ve yet to sign a roster and start competing in the Valve title. Guild even signed analyst and journalist Duncan \u2018Thorin\u2019 Shields as a consultant to ensure that they entered CS:GO in a strong manner. At the time of the announcement, he said that he would help the org \u201cdevelop their model for the team and advise on players and staff.\u201d As part of an exclusive interview spanning all facets of the British team with Dexerto, Guild Esports\u2019 CEO, Kal Hourd, revealed where they currently stand on officially entering the first-person shooter. \u201cWe announced that we were looking into CS:GO, we had an interest in entering and still do, but there\u2019s been a lot of changes on the CS:GO front and our attention has been pulled in other areas,\u201d Hourd told Dexerto in an in-depth interview. \u201cWe promised our shareholders that we were going to make smart decisions and we were going to enter titles that made sense. There are some other titles that we\u2019re excited about but we\u2019re still considering CS:GO.\u201d Read More: Guild reveal \u00a34.3m loss over six months – Guild was the first esports organization to list themselves on the London Stock Exchange, meaning they\u2019re a public company that allows retail investors \u2014 everyday people who want to put some cash into companies they believe in \u2014 to own a piece of them. They\u2019re beholden to their investors, like any company, and thus have to make decisions that seem sound and sensible for shareholder confidence and their stock price to move in the right direction. While CS:GO isn\u2019t off the agenda for Guild, their CEO elaborated on the fact there are other titles that may have caught their eyes in a more serious way since the announcement last November. They currently field competitors in CS competitor Valorant, Rocket League, FIFA, and Fortnite. I’m entering a consulting partnership with @guildesports as they enter the CS:GO space. pic.twitter.com\/hW8nTPnaKd \u2014 Thorin (@Thorin) November 5, 2020 \u201cI can\u2019t really divulge that but I can say we\u2019re interested in EA and Riot Games, and some titles that are popular in other countries as well,\u201d Hourd revealed to Dexerto. \u201cThere are opportunities to expand outside the UK.\u201d Outside of Valorant, Riot Games\u2019 other titles include League of Legends \u2014 which has a well-fleshed-out competitive system \u2014 auto battler Teamfight Tactics, collectible card game Legends of Runeterra, and mobile game League of Legends: Wild Rift. On the EA front, it has plenty of games but not many of them have well-established competitive scenes. Outside of FIFA, their prominent esports titles are battle royale Apex Legends and American football game Madden. So, while there hasn\u2019t been any discernible progress on Guild signing a CS:GO roster of their own, they\u2019ve not yet given up on the possibility of it happening should the right decision present itself in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Guild CEO on entering CS:GO: \u201cOur interest has been pulled in other areas but we\u2019re still considering it\u201d Guild Esports\/CS:GOBritish esports organization Guild are in some of esports\u2019 biggest titles and, in November 2020, they revealed that they were looking into Counter-Strike: Global Offensive as their next game of choice. Almost a year has passed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}