Counter-Strike 2 group ECSTATIC publicizes Gamban partnership

ECSTATIC has secured a brand new partnership with on-line playing blocking utility Gamban because it appears to focus on the onslaught of playing sponsorships in esports.

In an official launch, the Danish esports organisation has known as this new sponsorship ‘groundbreaking’ and envisages that the Counter-Strike 2 deal will ‘help these combating playing’.

ECSTATIC’s partnership with Gamban marks the primary time an esports group has had an anti-gambling firm as its foremost sponsor. The organisation famous that two-thirds of the highest 31 European esports organisations have betting sponsors and over 80% of the highest 50 Counter-Strike 2 groups have playing operators as sponsors.

“Offshore playing operators incessantly lack age checks and sturdy self-exclusion, leaving susceptible followers, particularly younger individuals, uncovered with no significant security web,” ECSTATIC said.

“Whereas playing cash pours in, no sponsorships till now have put participant welfare first.”

As a part of the Gamban sponsorship, ECSTATIC goes to launch a community-focused Discord with nameless peer teams, skilled talks, and instruments for these trying to combat playing habit. That is a part of the organisation’s objective of constructing it simpler to get assist, ‘particularly for younger followers who really feel misplaced in conventional help teams’.

“That is private for me,” stated ECSTATIC co-owner Oliver ‘zipeL’ Behrensdorff. “I’ve had durations of downside playing myself, and putting in Gamban was my first step towards change. We’re not right here to high-road anybody. We’re right here to supply a lifeline to those that want one.”

Gamban co-founder Matt Zarb-Cousin added that the corporate hopes it will change into a jumping-off level for different firms to spend money on esports with out ‘exploiting habit’.

ECSTATIC is a Danish-owned esports organisation owned by zipeL and Jepee ‘sneppen’ Jensen. Its Counter-Strike 2 group was ranked thirty first in Valve’s September World VRS standings.

The pretty new organisation has been competing in CS2 since 2021. By 2024, it reached the High 12 within the PGL Copenhagen Main.

Not too long ago, ECSTATIC turned one of many first groups eradicated from the BLAST Open London qualifiers, unable to make it out of the Group Stage. One of many groups to defeat them was FaZe Clan, an organisation that’s very well-known for its involvement with on-line playing sponsorships, together with Rollbit and DraftKings.

After the irritating final result, ECSTATIC had a couple of roster strikes and not too long ago fought for a spot within the Thunderpick World Championships.