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About
Brandon Beck is the Co-founder/CEO of Riot Games.Before the creation of League of legends, he was a strategy consultant for Bain & Company ."We were newbs at the starting-a-studio thing," said Beck. "As you might imagine, we dramatically underestimated a lot of the execution challenges along the way. We founded it out of a lifelong passion for competitive games. We made countless mistakes along this journey, so many in fact, we incorporated the idea of making mistakes into our culture." He said this quote to the Washington Post article.

Riot Games
Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill created Riot Games in 2006. Then on September 2009, League of Legends was created to bring a unique gaming style. Brandon Beck said in a article “It was always disappointing when development teams would rush in to build the next game and neglect communities that were staying engaged with their game well after it launched.” He also said, “We wanted a company that paid attention to players like us who wanted to play competitively and cooperatively.” League of Legends in 2013 was one of the few company that made 1 billion in revenue. League of Legends is played daily by over 25 million players. This massive gaming company is growing everyday with offices in Los Angeles, Dublin, St.Louis, and Seoul. Brandon Beck Marc Merrill wanted League of legends to be more than just your standard game, they wanted it to be more of a sport like game rather then just average games. League of Legends is a MMO strategy game. Throughout the years, Many tournament all over the world. The most popular tournament would be worlds. Many professional teams would include Samsung White(SSW), SK Telecom T1(Skt T1), TeamSoloMid(TSM), Cloud9(C9), Fanatic, Team Liquid. There are many more that Riot Games sponsor. Based off of league of legends, Esports was greatly boosted in the gaming community.

Education
Brandon Beck went to University of Southern California. He gave a speech at the 2011 commencement at USC. He graduated in 2004 from the school.