Ralf Reichert

“Esports is not media rights driven. It's born out of the internet where content is free as a start of where it's accessible everywhere. That's part of the success why so many people watch it. It's not behind a pay wall. It's really supporting the growth of the games in the industry. Which is commercially obviously a di...”

— From Inside the $70M Tournament: Esports World Cup CEO Ralf Reichert on Building the Olympics of Gaming, Cheddar (July 17, 2025)

“The founding partners of the esports world cup is Sony, you know as the largest entertainment company one of them in the world, it's Gadilla which is a mega project in Saudi building a gaming city itself, STC which is the largest telco. So this just gives you a little bit of a feeling and a local car supplier that it's...”

— From Inside the $70M Tournament: Esports World Cup CEO Ralf Reichert on Building the Olympics of Gaming, Cheddar (July 17, 2025)

“Wir haben damals auf der anderen Seite mit Goldman Sachs verhandelt, ne? Also die Bank von Savvy war Goldman Sachs. Also es ist ein ganz klar commercial Deal und nicht irgendwie ein politischer Teil.”

— From Esports World Cup, Saudi-Arabien & Millionen-Deals: Ralf Reichert über die Zukunft des Esports, Founder Mode (July 24, 2025)

“In Saudi, weil es ja auch eine Wüstenkultur ist, bist du im Sommer nur drin. Esport ist ein drinnensport, kein Draußensport. 70% der Saudis sind unter 35, 70% sind Videospieler.”

— From Esports World Cup, Saudi-Arabien & Millionen-Deals: Ralf Reichert über die Zukunft des Esports, Founder Mode (July 24, 2025)

“Menschen werden nicht glücklicher durch mehr Geld sorry ist einfach so und ja findet jeder erstmal trotzdem scheiße den Spruch und sagt du kannst das ja sagen du kriegst ja genug so die Antwort ist W stimmt ist gut für Sicherheit und willst ja auch haben ist auch ein guter Treiber versteh mich nicht falsch und ich bin...”

— From ESL-Gründer Ralf Reichert: So hat er den E-Sport groß gemacht (Schroet Kommando, Counter-Strike 1.6), Book of Counter-Strike (November 01, 2024)

“der eSport der wir Sprung machen den ich vorher auch nicht so gesehen habe also wir es der einer der größten Sporter an der Welt ja wird das dadurch Gesellschaft relevant ja wird es kommerziell erfolgreich weil es einfach dieses scale hat ja aber ich glaube es wird noch viel mehr Teil der Gesellschaft und da ist das da...”

— From ESL-Gründer Ralf Reichert: So hat er den E-Sport groß gemacht (Schroet Kommando, Counter-Strike 1.6), Book of Counter-Strike (November 01, 2024)

“So what we hear in Saudi, which is think big, bring government behind the whole Esports industry is a little bit of glimpse of the future. I think in 10 years many many other governments will be involved across the world.”

— From Esports World Cup Foundation CEO, Ralf Reichert | Riyadh Saudi Arabia, SportsTechX (July 03, 2024)

“And therefore the traditional media model and monetization is very different. It's not functioning like that. If you look into the next years, the cycles of some of the traditional sports stuff, it's hard to see that the cycle of media rights and linear going up is continuing, right? There has been the French league th...”

— From Esports World Cup Foundation CEO, Ralf Reichert | Riyadh Saudi Arabia, SportsTechX (July 03, 2024)

“With the Esports World Cup we can bring all 3.4 billion Gamers together. We're not going to do this year one, don't get me wrong, I don't want to oversell this, but we have that unique opportunity to really unite all of this different communities from a game perspective.”

— From Esports World Cup Foundation CEO Ralf Reichert:We have the opportunity to unite the gaming community, Xiao - eSportsGuy (August 26, 2024)

“The $20 million we put in as prizes for clubs only is a first of its kind. It's enormously big and the 7 million dollar first prize will be life-changing for that club who wins it.”

— From Esports World Cup Foundation CEO Ralf Reichert:We have the opportunity to unite the gaming community, Xiao - eSportsGuy (August 26, 2024)

“I think super important because I mean in every sport it's it's a lot about history legitimacy rivalries um all that culminates in stories right there's tons of content to be created every day but but what is this story what is the story in in in the football World Cup it's Germany playing Brazil right and that has hap...”

— From The story of ESL Gaming (and now EFG) - Ralf Reichert l Next World Forum 2023, Esports Insider (October 25, 2023)

“on the Monopoly side ESL and ESL Facebook group is still way too low to you know even even remotely have the power in the market because if you look at ponopolis you need to look at who has the power right and it's it's always about the views of power that's the problem with monopolies um and if you look at it the play...”

— From The story of ESL Gaming (and now EFG) - Ralf Reichert l Next World Forum 2023, Esports Insider (October 25, 2023)

“was er ja KI macht ist am Endeffekt die Content kreationskosten auf Null zu bringen aber zahlen ne ist immer Distributionskosten hat das Internet auf quasi nur gebracht und jetzt bringt content creation Kost zu null”

— From A billion-dollar exit made in Germany: How ESL founder Ralf Reichert created a unicorn, OMR (May 08, 2023)

“ich glaube da sind so geschriebenes Wort Bilder und so wird's immer geben aber der Wettbewerb wird brutal viel stärker im nächsten Schritt dann Videofilm gerade so tiktor Kurzfilme ist auch so eine so letzte steps”

— From A billion-dollar exit made in Germany: How ESL founder Ralf Reichert created a unicorn, OMR (May 08, 2023)

“we really wanted to build that infrastructure for gamers to become esports athlete and aspired stars rather than you know being being kind of you know looked with a an eyebrow on so this was our dna um and what you just you know said to create a world where everybody can be somebody is just the manifestation of it it m...”

— From Ralf Reichert, "Gaming/Esports Made in Germany", Sports Entrepreneurs (December 01, 2021)