Ralf Reichert is one of the true pioneers of esports.

He co-founded ESL in 2000 and has seen it grow in to one of the biggest and most influential event rights holders in the world.

As will become clear, I come to this conversation with all the misconceptions of someone who never got in to gaming.

But by the end, I’m a bit of a convert.

I still don’t know much, but an hour with Ralf Reichert has put me straight on some of the redundant cliches people like me carry around with them.This is a conversation I’ve been wanting to have for a long time, but as you’ll hear in the first bit of this interview, it’s not always easy to set these thing up.

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