The Rise and Fall of Echo Fox: The Biggest Scandal in Esports History 

As a gamer, I will always respect Rick Fox and his enthusiasm and passion for gaming.

Esports NEEDS Rick Fox, he did so much, But I wouldn't blame him for never returning to the forefront of Esports after everything that happened

Rick deserved better.

I just realised that Rick Fox is the personification of "Are ya winning son?". Can't believe they did him dirty like that, he's so wholesome especially to his son.

so sad man. I started my career as an esports writer with Echo Fox having zero prior experience. I'm nothing but grateful for the org, but seeing how everything ended still hurts. I really really hope Rick finds a new loving team where he can collaborate and keep Esports in the mainstream media. Esports needs someone like Rick

I wonder if anyone would try to bring Rick Fox back into esports.

This team, and Rick deserved so much better than the shit they got. Amit is entirely at fault here.

When i saw Katsuhiro Harada wearing team echo fox shirt at EVO a couple of years ago i started noticing how many of my favourite fighters actually were part of Echo Fox. And i kind of cheer for the whole squad. Hearing all of this is really sad. Losing the chance to protect and do the best for your project is something that must be really painful. I hope one day echo fox will come back, Rick deserves it if he still has passion and, more importantly, faith in this industry.

I feel bad for his son, he probably feels super guilty for bringing his dad into this People like rick is what esports needs

What happened to echo fox was beyond stupid and unfair. They allowed the person who was the victim to suffer even more and the abuser to profit. It was the saddest thing i ever saw and it was sad to see the good guy suffer..

i hope rick fox can come back, he only does this because of his son 😢

I wish my parents would care about my hobbies as Rick Fox did with his son

"Yeah I'm a racist but I don't care. Pay me money or I'll drive this org into the ground." Just sad. Should be a way to terminate such a leach. Probably would have been their best interest to pay out.

Gonna miss rick's arguement on the table trying to push esports out

could be called A Cautionary Tale in Choosing Partner Investors

Damn dude I had no idea. I feel so bad for Rick. It was one of the few cases where someone from an older generation, one thats so connected to professional sports, really embraced esports.

I love how everyone's just ignoring the fact that this boils down to Riot effectively canceling Echo Fox by giving them an impossible ultimatum.

I'm not crying you're crying...

here before they fix the title

He defended us But we couldn't do the same to him This is heart breaking

Even if all didn't work out for Echo Fox, I still respect the hell out of the man and the lengths he for it. Hopefully he'll see a team under his wing raise a cup one day and I hope when that day comes, he'll do sponsored by business partners who respect him as the GOAT that he's proved himself as to me.

Echofox dominated fighting games hard for awhile.

Man this one hurts, hopefully he becomes an owner again, he was so good for esports.

Hereby, I swear. If one day, Rick Fox comes back to the scene with his very own org again, Ima be a full-time 24/7 fan of that team. I'l buy merch, jersey or whatever and support him in any possible way.

that was way interesting. but also such a bummer.

God I feel bad for him, someone get him a new org

Rick Fox indeed looks like a very charismatic guy. Love that genuine smile.

I always cheered for Echo Fox whenever I saw them. I was wondering where they went because I don't see them in E-speorts anymore. Hopefully Rick Fox is doing better nowadays.

I dunno man, i hear that Amit guy and all i hear is the scammers calling me in my head.

Awesome. I have never really heard the full story on what happened to Rick's team. The score coming in with the facts to help me out.

Stop calling everything "the biggest scandal in e-sports"

Lol, I just watched the first Rick fox video

I remember this team. People like Faze Attach were a part of it in the cod division back during Advanced Warfare. They were dominant at first but once attach left they kinda became irrelevant.

Man, you can tell so quickly how authentic Rick is. I remember walking into the Barclays Center for a League semi finals and it was truly insane to see a stadium packed full of my own people. I've gone to tons of concerts and sports games, but everything about a stadium full of people losing their collective minds over your favorite game hits so different.

"the rise of fall of"

Boomers arguing with him, an athlete, that pro gamers aren't actual athletes, lmao.

Summit: A company partner didnt like losing his money so he started to type racial slurs. Question: Did he think his money would come back after that?

I didn't even know about this until now.

Never heard of Fall. But I'm excited to hear about his rise!

Just gonna wait here until they fix the title.

I remember when Echo Fox's announcement that they made it in to the League rosters after franchising. I hadn't followed them before hand much, so i did a little research on the team, and Rick himself. I realized pretty quickly that this was the person esports needed. And without a doubt, Rick Fox is the esports figure that I likely always will respect the most.

Amit: "We were hemorrhaging money!" Okay so whose fault is that

Rich Fox is one of the good boys. He gave a platform to a lot of talent.

Must have been hard to find video of the CS:GO team winning anything.

I remember when the title of this vid was "the rise of fall echo fox"

Love mew2king but showing a melee doubles match as an example was pretty hilarious. They probably made 700 bucks each haha

Maybe he's just slick but I have a hard time believing Rick is at fault here.

I am still in shock Rick lost his team , I hope he finds a way back somehow , maybe Immortals ?

it's actually sad, Rick literally did everything he could to save his team.

“The Biggest Scandal in Esports history” hmmm, never heard that before...

Wow imagine being AMIT and being racist "u are not even a myth"

Just look at that arrogant dude, of course he's gonna do some shady shit to get what he wants.

I don't think this is the biggest scandal in esports history anymore lmao

Rick should be thanked and praised for defending Esports as a Sport. There are others, but he's the biggest voice.

It's that guy from "Jake and Amir"! I hope he and his chicken wife is doing well.

he shouldnt be the sole manager, he needs others that will slide through thick and thin. he should've not been in his own fantasy land and make sure he was keeping everything on track

I hope that somehow, Rick Fox would bring back this dream of his. He dererved it so much.

3:30 that neck is longer than the time it took them to fix the title

Rick Fox is why most of my family in Southern California new about esports. Mainstream media and gossip sites would cover him and his involvement and when he do interviews for basketball he’s get a plug in for esports. Really did a lot for the sport

Man mkleo... my offer still stands haha I offered wafflws and backrubs... i thought this was enough... seems It was not :) bahahahahha

I remember when Tokido left Echo Fox and I wondered why. I had literally no knowledge about the different organizations/teams and what they did, especially behind the scenes, so I never knew until today. Tokido saw the hole in the ship and rafted out of there before it sank.

Rick is a great dude. He was loving the community. They did him dirty.

Rick could always come back to esports, I hope he would. He was great, it gave a whole different level to esports, really wholesome, I’m looking forward to seeing him again

Still upset about how things worked out for Rick

what a loss. rick fox looks like such a genuine and wholsome dude. just a really positive vibe-setter

I have gained so much respect for Rick, with his passion to put esports on the map to wearing a LGBTQ+ sticker to always having a smile on his face. You can see how much he cared about his players and that he didnt see them as products to make money at all.

Bruh this was my favorite esports team ever and now its gone...

This literally is the definition of "people suck" ... I miss Echo Fox

I'm not a genius and I might be biased because I'm a TSM fan but given Regi sparked the flame, given Rick Fox 100% deserves and should be in the scene (that man believes in the right things) and given TSM has LoL management issues right now, at least with the rapport side with the community - why aren't we asking him to partner with the biggest org in the LoL scene (and expanding the esports scene)? I mean the community would love that, fans would finally have something to connect with and feel like they are cared about. Rick is amazing for the game, for the community and he's a role model to what all orgs should be trying to attain and do. Him standing up to racism (not even directed at him originally) is exactly what the world is fighting for right now. Like it just seems to me, TSM + Rick Fox = win - win - win. Win for TSM to improve their core, to bring on someone who will share their winning culture values but invoke a sense of respect and self-worth (something TSM fans can cripple players under with the pressure to succeed). And Rick Fox knows the pressure to succeed as an athlete. It's a win for Rick Fox because he should be in the scene, he was great for league and he would resonate with the fan base hugely. He could be the LoL ambassador. He can be the change this community needs (not just TSM but esports as a whole). Finally it's a win for the fans because it creates the disengagement needed for TSM management on the operation side and they can just connect and relate to the TSM fan side - and who wouldn't want to cheer and be a part of fun things run by Rick Fox? If someone can put me in contact with Rick & or Regi - I'll make the sales pitch myself!

Damn man, it would be so cool if echo fox was still around

While I support his work, dude, grow a thicker skin. As a minority I've met dozens of racist assholes, but I don't let a single one effect me in my daily life to the point of removing myself from my life's work. People tend to say stupid (and sometimes racist) shit when they get emotional, which sounds like that's exactly what happened here.

5:50 poor dude got beat and the got left hangin

What a sour note for a pioneer of eSports. Does anyone know what he's/how he's doing nowadays??

Moving forward as esports grow, esports and the community need to stop holding onto the idea of being an actual sport with athletes. Competitive gaming is completely valid all on its own and doesn't need to cling onto the concept of actual sports. It shouldn't be condescending to say that esports aren't real sports or that their competitors aren't athletes, because competitive gaming is something unique and great all on its own. I understand that people think "bOoMeRs" will find it easier to consume the idea of esports if it's served to them in the context of actual sports, but the sooner esports stops trying to pretend it's something that it's not and starts being its own great thing, the better.

Shareholders own u therefore they make decisions for u, if you dont want that, don't sell majority shares fool.

Thats what you get when you bring in people without the same love and passion for a proffesion that requires it.. so sad for rick fox, and his son man, should've choosen people who loves the game, not the money involved in it.. hopes he comesback..

Wow.. That was just really sad all around. Hope we can see a good team like that again someday.

No way, iThrowPower was a bigger scandal than this

How is some millionaire Indian dude sending an email containing a racial slur to another millionaire the biggest scandal in esports history?

Amit - “I’m not racist cause other people said racist things also”

I haven't watched Echo Fox's teams since late 2017, but god damn... I am so sorry Rick Fox.

MkLeo?

Org or no org, Rick Fox was the hero we gamer's needed. His commitment and passion is something we will always cherish

Wow, Amit even sounds like a sniffling wheezle.

Rick Fox is still the father of mainstream esports. What happened to Echo Fox hurt all of us, but the fact still stands, there is NO ONE better than Rick Fox as the ambassador for esports.

Rick Fox is the lovechild of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and John Stewart.

I don’t see why Rick would just leave everything he owns bc of a shareholder. Lol. Fight for what’s yours.

I’m kinda against these titles, this is like you’re tenth biggest scandal. Stop all these clickbaiting titles

They will make a comeback just wait

You could really tell Rick was super passionate about E-sports and honest to god good human being and I've never even met the man. Never even heard of all this drama within the ORG damn shame man

Bruh, they had MK Leo and Sonicfox, two FGC goats and still dropped the ball.

So sad to see Echo Fox disappear

rick fox is a legend and a true stand up guy that the industry should greatly miss. i really hope he can come back to esports. need more people like him at the forefront

Rick was really good for the eSports community. A friend of mine that worked under him at Echo Fox really enjoyed their tenure there too and its tragic that shitty investor selection is what brought it down.

Really hope Rick makes a comeback to esports. I know we all validate it for what it is, but it would be nice to have "mainstream" acknowledge esports as well. People with a foot in that world can help

no matter what happens Rick Fox will forever have my support for being a loving father and a damn good Team owner.

Pretty fucked up that everyone got punished for something an investor did and they couldn't do anything about him.

I'd be interested in hearing what was said behind closed doors. That guy was investing in Rick Fox's team, if he didn't like how it was being managed, he had every right to sell his shares. Like, what mismanagement? How the fuck could he sue him for that? You have to expect your shares to fluctuate once you invest, you can't just sue a company you buy out for not making you any money. That's just a scummy thing to do. I hate how Rick Fox had to settle with this scumbag. Such a fucking bully.

I'm a diehard Lakers fan from all the way back in the early 80's and I wouldn't call Rick Fox a sports 'icon'. 35 seconds in and this video is already loosely playing with the facts?

Now Rick should talk with Marsh