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FGC: Eita gets a sponsor despite Daigo livestreaming and trolling his job interviews

Aruarian Reflection

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Street Fighter legend Daigo Umehara has one of the most unique streams on Twitch and this weekend he took streaming to new frontiers. Because of his influence, he arranged three job interviews in one afternoon for fellow Japanese player Eita, who is seeking a sponsorship to travel to more international tournaments and hopefully get paid as well. Eita is a talented player who will be participating in this weekend's Capcom Cup with $120,000+ first place winnings

Daigo brought along a buddy to livestream all three interviews, which surely must be a first. As a bonus, live English translation and commentary was provided by staff from Daigo's stream HQ. And if all this wasn't surreal enough, despite Daigo arranging the interviews and seemingly helping Eita out, Daigo was constantly trolling and sabotaging Eita, who seems too shy and inexperienced to promote himself well. This is a must-watch if you like cringe comedy

The VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/daigothebeastv/v/103406179?t=48m

In the first interview alone:
- setting up Eita to speak English despite his poor ability (he failed the lowest level English test in Japan)
- forcing Eita to reveal his shirt which he was trying to hide despite willingly wearing this to the interviews
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- begging the company to hire Eita and constantly saying he will do anything
- asking for ridiculous salaries
- asking Eita to show his guitar skills (who brought a guitar with him to the interview)
- interviewers reveal the research they have done on Eita, including a print-out of his maid cosplay

The second interview is legendary for Eita doing a DragonballZ Frieza impression and being asked to create a meme on the spot
https://clips.twitch.tv/daigothebeastv/FairKuduGrammarKing

Despite all that, he is now a sponsored gamer! Congratulations

 

Tripon

Member
Press release
Public Relations blog
My game resume
Capcom Cup 2016 Eita News ~ GameWith of player sponsorship decision is a special sponsor to "Eita" players to compete in the Capcom Cup 2016 ~
2016/11/30

GameWith Co., Ltd. (Minato-ku, Tokyo, President and CEO Takuya Imaizumi, the "Company"), Ltd. Omoroki (Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, representative Taketoshi Kamata) and Ebisuminami law firm (Meguro-ku, Tokyo, representative lawyer 藥師 God TsuyoshiYu) and in collaboration, 2016 December 2 (Friday), has decided to sponsor the "Eita" players to compete in the Capcom Cup 2016 to be held in the United States on December 3, 2016 (Saturday).
■ What is Capcom Cup 2016
 Street Fighter latest work a "Street Fighter V" and events, compete in a tournament that has been specified in the Capcom Pro Tour, which will be held in various parts of the world, is a world tournament as a result the upper 32 people can participate.
(Dates) 2016 December 2 (Friday) - 2016 December 3 (Sat)
(venue) (1 day) San'anata Arena Esports
(2 day) Anaheim Anaheim Convention Center within the "PlayStation Experience"
■ Major tournament track record of Eita players
Thaigeruppercut Championship 2016 (Thailand) strike 5 victory
Stunfest 2016 (France) strike 5 2on2 runner
6th TOPANGA Charity Cup strike 5 victory
E-Sports Festival HongKong 2016 (Hong Kong) strike 5 runner
AbugetCup (Indonesia) strike 5 victory
Mr. fighting game player Eita
■ background in sponsorship
 Eita players, We visit the company in a professional gamer Umehara Daigo players to deliver "Daigo-the-beads TV Tsuitchi" planning "Aim professional gamer, Eita of company visits!" Of, sincere for that game efforts are believed to be consistent with our mission to "create a more enjoyable world game", it has decided to sponsor in Capcom Cup 2016.
Daigo-the-Beith TV Tsuitchi
URL: https://www.twitch.tv/daigothebeastv/
■ GameWith Company Profile
Company Name: Corporation GameWith
President: Takuya Imaizumi
Location: Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 6-10-1 Roppongi Hills Mori Tower
Founded: June 2013
Capital: including 680 million yen (capital reserve )
business: the development of Web services and management
URL:https://gamewith.jp/
<Corporation GameWith Contact Us>
If you have any questions please feel free to contact us.
Spokesman Sako, Ito
TEL: 03-5775-5233 FAX: 03-5775-5234
Mail: Pressattogamewith.Co.Jp

More money than Triforce at least.
 

Alienous

Member
Is this a "no bad publicity" situation? It seems like Daigo was doing him a favour while trying to make it entertaining.
 

mbpm1

Member
Wait so the interviews were fake? real, but with some lightheartedness?

I think they were real, but some behind the scenes interest/emphasis must have been going on with the first one, bc they made his resume and did research.

Thanks Daigo for those streams though, they were great
 

mbpm1

Member
Another constant throughout the interviews: Daigo or the cameraman laughing directly at Eita or interrupting the interviewers to say dumb things lol
 
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