Executive Team

A&C Games represents the heart of the Greater Toronto Area's gaming culture and community in the heart of downtown Toronto. It's founders, Gar Wan Toy and his brother originally started selling retro games from their family's 7-11 before they opened their own store. They also founded a close-knit and popular fighting game community out of an adjacent basement to their former store otherwise known as "fight club" which has since migrated to The Hive and now represents a much more diverse gaming crowd.

Founded by our ambassador Keisha Howard, Sugargamers is still largely a women-centric gaming community at it's core but also a multi-skilled collective of young professionals with various skills and creative trades which also now includes incorporates a few men as well :)

Led by former pro-gamer Sebastian "Chosen1" Burton who has competed across the board from sports games to fighting to competitive shooters, Gold Standard Gaming is both E-Sports Talent as well as marketing agency who has worked with clients such as EA, Supercell and KT.

"Gootecks" is an on-off professional fighting gaming player. When he was on, he was part of things like Capcom Pro Tour but ended up being better known for his showboating and unique dress sense at events than the big leagues themselves. He ended up being better known for his Cross Counter youtube show, teaching and several books he has written on Street Fighter

"Let's learn like gentlemen!" is a phrase Behrudy popularized on his Youtube channel, paraphrased from his favourite Street Fighter main, Dudley. More of a video editor and content creator than a progamer, Behrudy nonetheless is well known locally (and sometimes local champion) along with his international following on Youtube.

Munly and Niraj "Masterpiece" cover Chiang Mai, Thailand, often "Northern capital" of Thailand which already has an esports venue at Pantip Plaza while Chiang Mai University on the side of town is often a host of events and is also home the College of Arts, Media and Technology (CAMT) , training the next generation of Thai game developers.

Alpha eSport Team is an often qualifier or semi finalist in the SE Asian region's events as well as in China and has also parterned with King Mongkut University in Bangkok while Game Over Lounge is a bar

Johor E-Sports Association are made up of veteran operators from the former Academy of E-Sports. . Our man Aaron Ting is head of Access Blockchain and also founded the Bitcoin Malaysia group and is part of business development for the Iskandar region. His sons are more avid gamers than he is but he retains an interest in gaming especially as a way to bridge his sons into programming, blockchain and tech entrepreneurship. His family is a fine example of the positive outcomes that can come from gaming especially when combined with good balance :)

He was a co-founder of a regional advertising agency and a senior investment associate of Castlewood Group. Desmond is a flamboyant on stage aficionado with 7 years of experience in events. He is also a former speaker and presenter for a foreign property developer in China & Indonesia.

Bountie have their own e-sports arena that can play host to our special events in Singapore. They aim to build the e-sports and gaming scene in Singapore along with the "play for money" in a more casual sense of Bountie's core business.

Kyle Rollinson is Sydney based indie game developer and also a long time patron of Spawn Point, a gaming bar and venue in the heard of Sydney's CBD.