YouPorn Esports team has suffered big blow after being kicked out of the ESL.  Adult entertainment industry often suffers from certain business avoiding dealing with it.  Rare to see any sort of sponsorship from the XXX rated world.  YouPorn tried to clean up it image with sponsorship of spanish based Esports team.  Adult entertainment industry makes billions every year yet often has limited opportunities.   Youporn decided to carefully rebrand it Esports team from Pay2Win to Team YP.   Team was quite successful grabbing headlines taking part in various competition under various games.

Electronic Sports League operates series of competitions, over 1,000 teams are linked to the league. Electronic Sports League recently taken action to exclude Team YP due to adult entertainment industry links.  Carefully named Team YP avoids talking about the adult entertainment industry sponsor behind it.  Quick search brings you towards the team safe for work blog avoids talking about YouPorn.  Electronic Sports League operates series of competitions, over 1,000 teams are linked to the league. Electronic Sports League recently taken action to exclude Team YP due to adult entertainment industry links.  Open secret that Esports often gets money from gambling companies and stories of drug abuse are known.  Company far more clean compared to other sponsors who have shady pasts.  Worse still Esports has dirty underbelly like all sports, trying to become mainstream. Esports often ends up dealing with companies which are forced to have ties with porn companies. This brings up the question why did ESL remove Team YP.  Massive failure dealing with various problems within Esports.  Match fixing, drug abuse, abuse have rocked the scene.

Team YP took steps avoid adult industry links being public.  Trying to create safe for work brand image over promoting the site.  Company was willing to rebrand whole team to avoid any issues. ESL declined according to Team YP, just releasing statement saying rule was nothing new.  According to reports the decision was taken direct from the board at ESL.  Game publishers often draw up long contracts that prohibit any participation from pornographic brands.  Team ended up doing some clever censored version of shirts in the past.  Not subtle which why offer was made to do complete rebrand of the team.  Of course moves like that may have annoyed ESL and not helped.

Gambling has been serious problem for Esports with many many competitions being fixed or rigged.  Only adults are allowed to play in ESL games, players have shouted abuse.  Seen some people say that the ban was make the sport more legitimate.  Was the case the ESL would review all money floating around.   Better yet violent is fine however porn companies no?

Find the whole thing confusing and part of the reason why can’t take Esports serious.  Wanted to be taken serious would be letting porn companies in and ditching gambling companies.