Guild end \u00a33.6m sponsorship due to year-long contract \u201cuncertainty\u201d YouTube: GuildBritish organization Guild Esports have terminated their most lucrative sponsorship deal to date, citing \u201cuncertainty about the contract\u201d with the unknown financial tech company. Guild Esports made a big impact in their first months of existence back in 2020 with the attachment of famed former professional football David Beckham and public listing on the London Stock Exchange. The British org managed to leverage this attention to secure sponsorship deals, with their first-ever agreement being announced on October 19, 2020. Worth \u00a33.6m over three years, the deal was struck with a mystery company that had yet to launch. A year on from the initial announcement, the fintech business have still yet to actually unveil themselves in the public realm and, according to Guild, they\u2019ve failed to pay the \u00a31.1m that was agreed upon for the first year of the collaboration. GUILD x Apex Legends \ud83d\udca5 We’re excited to announce that @matafe_, @SiltaApex, & @Horizxonn are joining Guild and will be jumping straight into the Apex Legends Global Series which starts TOMORROW \u2757 Join us in giving the team a warm welcome\ud83d\udc4a#GuildGang \ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd35 pic.twitter.com\/wPLs11mrsH \u2014 GUILD (@guildesports) October 15, 2021 Guild have now terminated the sponsorship deal due to \u201cdelays in the sponsor\u2019s launch\u201d and because \u201cnone of the amounts scheduled under the contract have been paid\u201d, causing them to feel \u201cuncertainty about the contract\u201d. In a wide-ranging interview with Dexerto in August 2021, Guild CEO Kal Hourd had spoken on the mysterious sponsorship deal. \u201cWe\u2019re waiting for them to launch their company, they just haven\u2019t done that yet,\u201d he said of the sponsor. \u201cThe revenue that we expect from them in year one is still expected. We do expect to launch before the end of this year. We moved very fast when we launched Guild and not every company moves that quickly. We\u2019ve promised the revenue to the market in year one and we need to deliver on that. We will likely either beef up their package throughout the remaining two years, or we could even extend it beyond the end of the three-year term.\u201d The org revealed in their latest financial report, dated June 30, 2021, that they had lost \u00a34.3m over the previous six months. At the time, they had signed sponsorships worth a total of \u00a37.5m \u2014 including a \u201cmulti-million-pound\u201d deal with Subway \u2014 and that this was a main driver of revenue for the business. Guild\u2019s termination announcement on October 22 reveals that they are generating \u201cstrong and active interest from consumer brands in a wide range of sectors\u201d and have deals that are at an \u201cadvanced stage of negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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