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tell me something why tastosis okay so um a lot of people know
us in the past were really involved with Starcraft like Marine King white RW sen
all those like big name players um but
when you really think about Starcraft you really think about the announcers
you think about people that are entertaining you while you're watching the game they're telling you how to feel
about the game they're telling you how to think about the game um you're you
can really relate to them on a personal level because you feel like they're
having a conversation with you every day that you're watching Starcraft so um who
else than to go with than the most famous Esports personalities out there
tasteless and artosis so that was our reasoning um to approach them but at the
same time they were really eager to develop personalized gaming products um
and that's one thing that we really specialize at tte sports is being able
to make personalized gaming gear we have a mouse and mouse pad for white raw we
have a keyboard and mouse pad for Prime team and Marine King so they've known
that we've done that in the past so they were really excited to develop products
from the ground up in the design phase and the testing phase to be able to make
the stuff that they really want to use and that's something we're working with them right now on now we actually
mentioned this in one of the episodes that we did for um uh ncx uh if you're
not familiar with them it's Canadian retailer um where I actually haven't had
that much familiarity with thermal products in the past same with tte
sports and I I picked up the white raw Mouse and I kind of went oh this is
actually designed for some dude's hand because it doesn't fit me at all whereas
I feel like a lot of the time with these gamer sponsored products it's just a
product that you then find a gamer to sponsor whereas it really doesn't seem
like you guys do that so so which ones would you say are the ones where it
really was designed for like that guy and and if you want to play like him and
and and use a a tool like he uses you're really getting that experience yeah a
lot a lot of uh companies or products in the past have just used a pro Gamer's
face to stamp on the box and endorse it um where we really started developing
products uh on a personalized level is when we started with the prime team
keyboard um you can really see that Marine King's design really went into
that keyboard it's bright red with pink Keys he's really well known for like
wearing really flamboyant clothing being like an out there personality so that's
when we designed uh we sat down in a room with them and I said okay um here's
the layout we're going to be using tell me what switch you want to use tell me
what colors you want to use and we'll make it even though a lot of people
don't like the red and the black and the pink color scheme is like whatever you
want we will make for you because that's uh the deal we have with you so that's
where we really started and then even taking it to a next level with tastosis
I sent them like the the 3D drawings of
the the mouse design and artosa would say no I want to change that so like 2
weeks later send him a new one no I want to change that it's like okay well it keeps kind of getting pushed back but
he's really like he has a big emphasis on this has to be perfect this has to be
perfect if you want me to uh sell this
and so we finally finished the design I
got a 3D printer in our office we printed out the the model of the mouse
sending it to him next week to finally to get get his final approval so he
could actually start making the mouse so um yeah that I think it started with the
prime team keyboard with the design and the color scheme and then we took it to
the next level actually just starting from the the base just 3D designs 3D
models let's get to the really barebone stuff before we uh actually make the
product a real a real product that people can go out and buy and use that's
fantastic cuz it's just totally different from what I see other guys
doing and it's one of those things where everyone's afraid to make that
polarizing product that isn't you know
good for the masses I mean you know how long it's been since I've encountered a
mouse as large as the white raw Mouse I
was like oh someone with big hands can actually Palm this whereas you see
everyone else hedging their bets they build a palm mouse that someone with
bigger hands they expect them to just claw it and you guys just don't believe
in that I mean like I said earlier something for everyone so if you want a
big mouse small Mouse we have that um I know personally like artosis likes a
small Mouse we're developing a smaller claw type Mouse for him but we have you
know a big mouse for white raw um sen our Taiwanese star he uses aurus mini
which is our really um basic small Mouse
design so we have something for everyone you like a big small um
flat I mean we could go we could go there with that but we'll leave that to
another interview maybe we'll get white raw in on that one do you have like a like a private room that we could do
that interview in well we got three three interview rooms in the back but
well we won't talk about that in public do any of them have a poll
little hot tub all right thanks man all right thanks