Well-established UK-founded organisation Exertus Esports has folded, and from the ashes comes a new organisation: Vision6.
Exertus was recently acquired by US owners, who have now disbanded the organisation entirely.
The organisation shut up shop after the new owners discovered that former League of Legends players were still owed money from previous winnings.
Most of the people who co-owned/managed Exertus in that short period of time (Jon Primm, Mike Calvillo, Blake and Joshua Hayes) have since changed their Twitter handles or deactivated.
Kieran Masterson, former COO of Exertus and the founder of new org Vision6, reached out to eSports News UK to explain the situation.
“Unfortunately the org folded,” he explained. “It was completely out of my hands, but after a short break I’ve decided to create my own organisation, Vision6.
“Exertus folded due to a unpaid debt that we didnt know about. Before the ownership was paid, from what I have been informed the old owners owed their League of Legends team a four-figure sum.
“The new owners were not told about this when buying the organisation, and when they found out how much it was, decided to fold as they could not afford to pay off the LoL team and keep Exertus running at a high standard.
“We (the Exertus owners) stopped talking after about the first week it split, but we ended it on good terms and I was offered to have the same role within a new organisation they created. But I felt it just wouldn’t be the same for me as it would have been with the Exertus brand.”
This means the old LoL team – Zhergoth Nocturnal Plex, Special, Toaster and Tundra/Wizz – won’t be receiving the money they are apparently owed.
Kieran, who is based in the UK and has been in the scene for a while now, is planning to launch the new UK org at the end of October.
“I came into the scene as a young player, just started out with a group of friends but for me things progressed and I started to take it more seriously,” he said.
“At the end of Advanced Warfare, after three years with the same team we all went our separate ways and with me not being able to find a new team, decided to manage and that has led me to where i am now.
“As far as my plans go for Vision, this will may sound cheesy but i had a vision to succeed and that’s exactly what I want to do with Vision6, I want to see it go somewhere and I will do whatever it takes to do so.
“Nothing is 100% as far as which game/scene we will reach into yet, but my background has been in Call of Duty, so it will most likely be the CoD scene, however as I said I will do whatever it takes to get this organisation far – and I wouldn’t be reluctant to look into CSGO, Gears of War or even Halo.
“Make sure to keep an eye on @Vision6Esports.”
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
