G7 Teams
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The G7 Teams or G7 Federation is an association of professional Electronic sports teams formed originally by five teams (4Kings, SK, Fnatic, Team 3D and Mousesports). After inviting NiP and MiBr the organization become the G7. They currently have 10 members. The organization aims to promote the interest of the community and players to the tournament organizers, sponsors and other professional gaming institutions. The G7 teams have active presence in the advisory boards for both the World Series of Video Games and KODE5 [1], but also relations with other tournament organizers including the Cyberathlete Professional League along with its players committee and the Electronic Sports World Cup.
[edit] Meetings
The organization have an annual meeting to discuss the e-sport scene and related topics in order to make decisions on various subjets including the selection of official games, request of changes of regulations in leagues among others.
The organization currently has done one meeting. Their first meeting was in Cologne, 19th to 21st January.
[edit] Controversy
The organization has become a controversial because their actions on the electronic sports scene and has been criticised because of being self-centered orientated. While the G7 promote the interests of the e-sport community has been known for acting towards only the interest of their members.[2]
Criticised actions include their position of boycotting events, for example the organization almost did withdraw their teams when WSVG enforced the use of a specific brand and model of headphones. After negotiations this rule was removed.
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