Tt eSports Interview - Why Do you Guys Sponsor Tastosis?
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of computex 2013 is powered by Western Digital our
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trusted gaming gear partner is Corsair Vengeance and our trusted retail partner
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is nc.com now when it comes to sponsorships
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tell me something why tastosis okay so um a lot of people know
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us in the past were really involved with Starcraft like Marine King white RW sen
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all those like big name players um but
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when you really think about Starcraft you really think about the announcers
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you think about people that are entertaining you while you're watching the game they're telling you how to feel
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about the game they're telling you how to think about the game um you're you
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can really relate to them on a personal level because you feel like they're
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having a conversation with you every day that you're watching Starcraft so um who
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else than to go with than the most famous Esports personalities out there
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tasteless and artosis so that was our reasoning um to approach them but at the
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same time they were really eager to develop personalized gaming products um
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and that's one thing that we really specialize at tte sports is being able
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to make personalized gaming gear we have a mouse and mouse pad for white raw we
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have a keyboard and mouse pad for Prime team and Marine King so they've known
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that we've done that in the past so they were really excited to develop products
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from the ground up in the design phase and the testing phase to be able to make
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the stuff that they really want to use and that's something we're working with them right now on now we actually
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mentioned this in one of the episodes that we did for um uh ncx uh if you're
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not familiar with them it's Canadian retailer um where I actually haven't had
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that much familiarity with thermal products in the past same with tte
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sports and I I picked up the white raw Mouse and I kind of went oh this is
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actually designed for some dude's hand because it doesn't fit me at all whereas
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I feel like a lot of the time with these gamer sponsored products it's just a
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product that you then find a gamer to sponsor whereas it really doesn't seem
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like you guys do that so so which ones would you say are the ones where it
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really was designed for like that guy and and if you want to play like him and
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and and use a a tool like he uses you're really getting that experience yeah a
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lot a lot of uh companies or products in the past have just used a pro Gamer's
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face to stamp on the box and endorse it um where we really started developing
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products uh on a personalized level is when we started with the prime team
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keyboard um you can really see that Marine King's design really went into
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that keyboard it's bright red with pink Keys he's really well known for like
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wearing really flamboyant clothing being like an out there personality so that's
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when we designed uh we sat down in a room with them and I said okay um here's
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the layout we're going to be using tell me what switch you want to use tell me
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what colors you want to use and we'll make it even though a lot of people
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don't like the red and the black and the pink color scheme is like whatever you
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want we will make for you because that's uh the deal we have with you so that's
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where we really started and then even taking it to a next level with tastosis
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I sent them like the the 3D drawings of
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the the mouse design and artosa would say no I want to change that so like 2
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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
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he's really like he has a big emphasis on this has to be perfect this has to be
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perfect if you want me to uh sell this
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and so we finally finished the design I
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got a 3D printer in our office we printed out the the model of the mouse
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sending it to him next week to finally to get get his final approval so he
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could actually start making the mouse so um yeah that I think it started with the
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prime team keyboard with the design and the color scheme and then we took it to
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the next level actually just starting from the the base just 3D designs 3D
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models let's get to the really barebone stuff before we uh actually make the
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product a real a real product that people can go out and buy and use that's
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fantastic cuz it's just totally different from what I see other guys
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doing and it's one of those things where everyone's afraid to make that
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polarizing product that isn't you know
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good for the masses I mean you know how long it's been since I've encountered a
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mouse as large as the white raw Mouse I
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was like oh someone with big hands can actually Palm this whereas you see
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everyone else hedging their bets they build a palm mouse that someone with
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bigger hands they expect them to just claw it and you guys just don't believe
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in that I mean like I said earlier something for everyone so if you want a
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big mouse small Mouse we have that um I know personally like artosis likes a
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small Mouse we're developing a smaller claw type Mouse for him but we have you
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know a big mouse for white raw um sen our Taiwanese star he uses aurus mini
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which is our really um basic small Mouse
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design so we have something for everyone you like a big small um
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flat I mean we could go we could go there with that but we'll leave that to
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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
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that interview in well we got three three interview rooms in the back but
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well we won't talk about that in public do any of them have a poll
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little hot tub all right thanks man all right thanks