Streamer and popular YouTube personality MoistCr1tikal issues a call for help in a gaming event, revealing Moist Esports is losing money rapidly.
The popular Twitch streamer and YouTube personality Charlie ‘MoistCr1tikal’ White has released a video titled “I Need You” pleading for help. The streamer is looking for team members to joins his team on Creator event run by a new free-to-play knockout game, Omega Strikers. However, the aim for the Twitch superstar isn’t to just create the largest and most successful team in the game, but to secure funding for his esports organization Moist Esports.
White is known not only for his variety of game and Just Chatting streams for his 4.5 million Twitch followers, but for a YouTube channel under the alias penguinz0, which has garnered more than 11 million subscribers. The online personality also followed in the footsteps of OTK and established his own esports organization in 2021, Moist Esports, which has several teams competing in games including Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Rocket League, and Apex Legends.
While the esports organization has been successful – especially in Rocket League, achieving the top spot at the Rocket League Championship Series 2021–22 Spring Split Major – it hasn’t managed to secure stable funding. This is where White’s plea for help comes in. He wants to win the grand prize of Omega Strikers Creators VS event. In the event, content creators compete against each other by recruiting players to their teams. The team with the most wins at the end of the event will receive a unique and extremely worthwhile prize. Instead of a lump sum like in an esports competition, Omega Strikers developer promised 3% of the profits from Season 1 to the first place finisher. The second and third aren’t left out either, each receiving 1% of the profits.
Although White loves the gameplay, which according to him seems to be inspired by League of Legends and air hockey, the main goal is to secure the win to fund his esports organization. White says that all the winnings will go to fund Moist Esports. The reason for this is that he absolutely loves running Moist Esports, but is losing money rapidly. White doesn’t give exact numbers, but according to him, his net losses are somewhere in the neighborhood of six figures each month. While he says he’s willing to run it at a loss forever, if he has to, winning the event would be great for the organization.
At the time of releasing the video, Team Moist was in the sixth place and had a fraction of the points of the top team. After calling for help on his channels, Team Moist has overtaken every team and claimed the number one spot by a large margin. Team Moist – and thus Moist Esports – seems to have secured the prize for its esports cyber athletes, as the event is set to close in three days, although nothing is yet set in stone.
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