Galaxy Racer and Team Nigma are uniting their two specialty eSports organisations, combining Galaxy Racer's massive eSports, content, and lifestyle brand with Nigma's competitive experience. Nigma will rebrand as Nigma Galaxy and will lead Galaxy Racer's eSports section from its headquarters in Abu Dhabi.
Overall, Nigma Galaxy will shift its focus from top-tier
Dota 2 to rosters that span numerous major eSports titles, including League of
Legends, VALORANT, CS:GO, Free Fire, and PUBG MOBILE, with 60 players from over
20 nations. Mohamed Morad, Christoph Timm, and Kuro “KuroKy” Takhasomi,
co-founders of Nigma, will lead it.
Nigma Galaxy will continue to function as an independent
company, with its own funding, brand, and direction, as well as its own visual
identity.
Since its inception in 2019 by Morad, Timm, and the bulk of
Team Liquid's The International Seven winning Dota 2 lineup, Nigma has swiftly
risen to popularity as a competitive organisation, securing several
high-profile collaborations with corporations like as Etihad Airways and
Etisalat.
According to a YouGov survey, MENA as a region already has a
lesser familiarity with eSports than other big areas, despite having several
nations with greater gaming populations than France, Sweden, and Norway. Nigma
Galaxy can now leverage that expertise and the merger to continue developing as
the largest competitive gaming team in the MENA area, while also expanding
internationally, with ambitions to expand inside Europe, the Americas,
Southeast Asia, and China.
Similarly, Galaxy Racer, which was created in 2019, has
already established itself as a significant organisation in esports and the
sole MENA-centric worldwide presence. Galaxy Racer will continue to focus on
expanding its content brand, tournament administration, merchandise, and other
aspects of its company, such as its recently created record label GXR Records.
The company already boasts some of the most prominent
content creators in the MENA and Asia areas, with a roster of more than 80
creators claiming a combined reach of over 330 million followers and billions
of views across all major platforms.