Over the past few weeks, we as an organization have been discussing our future in the Gears of War scene. This is a decision that was hard to come to an agreeance to due to the pure passion that each event showcased from both players and fans alike. With this in mind, this scene has also been the most brutal for us to stay in for a multitude of reasons.

Players and Rosters

Staple games for premier organizations have familiar faces that the fans of the organization can recognize and associate themselves with, making it easier to grow a brand. Names such as Scumpi, Faker, SonicFox, and many more are all synonymous with a particular brand.

In our tenure fielding Gears of War rosters, we have faced the challenge of holding a team for more than one event. In our 2 year trek in the Gears of War scene, we’ve been to 7 different events, out of those 7 events we have fielded 7 different rosters making it extremely hard on us to build any kind of branding around our players.

Some will say “but that’s just the way the scene is”, that’s an asinine way to think. Why should organizations enter the scene with the level of immaturity and unprofessionalism that is running rampant from the amateur community all the way to the professional players? This has to change in order for the scene to continue to grow.

Lack of Communication



To The Coalition: Your scene has been a difficult one to navigate due to the lack of communication from your company to our organization with regards to event planning and announcement of locations for LAN and potential accommodations. In most other scenes, the next few events are announced well ahead of time so teams can prepare necessary travel accommodations and request time away from work. Announcing events months in advance helps mitigate the cost of travel, especially for international events.

Feedback for the Future

First, we believe strongly that The Coalition should adopt a similar system to what Riot Games has in that of a contract database so that one of the other issues that plagues this scenes stops. In this way players can no longer just claim free agency when in reality they are still under contract. While we are not saying contracts should be made public it should still be noted that if The Coalition has the players best interests in mind they will review said contracts to ensure one and done teams stop showing up and some accountability be introduced for all parties.

Second, a clear and concise road map on how to earn weapon skins needs to be documented and communicated. We have proven our loyalty time after time, but are passed up by newer teams entering the scene because of their social following, regardless if they stay more than one event or not.

In closing, we have given this scene over a year and a half of our time. We hope this is not a goodbye forever, but it is definitely a goodbye for now. Thank you to all of the fans who’ve supported us along this journey and players who’ve played under our banner, you will not be forgotten. We ask for your continued support as we venture into other scenes.