Tim Sevenhuysen is the founder and sole developer of Oracle's Elixir and provides a variety of consulting and contracting services throughout the esports industry. He is the former Director of Esports Analytics for 100 Thieves, served as Head of Data Science for Esports One, led Shadow.gg from 2017 to 2019, and was Statistical Consultant for Fnatic in 2015. Follow Tim on Twitter at @TimSevenhuysen.
The 100 Thieves organization benefited in several ways from running an amateur team in 2020, but were those benefits big enough to justify the investment and effort? And have they actually seen those benefits materialize in any real way so far, or are the benefits mostly theoretical and future-based?
NOTE: I didn’t discuss Poome in this video, and I should have given the 100T Next program credit for “discovering” him in the Spring split and advancing him into Academy and the LCS team in the Summer.
The Golden Guardians are undergoing a complete overhaul and rebuild with a focus on new talent. General Manager Danan Flander and Assistant GM Jonathon McDaniel joined the show to explain what a rebuild means
