{"id":10269,"date":"2018-01-09T18:17:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T17:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/?p=10269"},"modified":"2018-01-09T18:17:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T17:17:33","slug":"aoc-g2-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2018\/01\/aoc-g2-partner","title":{"rendered":"AOC introduces esports sponsorship program, partner up with G2 Esports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">Display specialist <strong>AOC<\/strong> has today officially introduced its global esports sponsorship program by partnering up with <strong>G2 Esports<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10270 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/G2-x-AOC.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/G2-x-AOC.png 600w, https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/G2-x-AOC-300x182.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">G2 has won 79 championships across multiple titles, and AOC says it is \u201creadying itself to increase that number by providing the fastest gaming displays ever produced\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>Stefan Sommer, Director of Marketing &amp; Business Europe at AOC<\/strong>, stated: \u201cWe are really thrilled about our partnership with G2 Esports. Working with top-notch esports teams inspires us in the way we think about product design and helps us identify which feature sets suit the respective genre or title best. G2 provides superb training facilities and excellent conditions for their players, and we\u2019re looking forward to living up to those standards with our premium <strong>AGON series<\/strong>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>G2 Founder and CEO Carlos \u2018ocelote\u2019 Rodriguez<\/strong> echoed Sommer\u2019s statements: \u201cEveryone in G2 Esports is beyond excited to team up with AOC. The involvement of professional players in developing the best gaming displays is essential and we are more than happy to lend our world-wide stars to assist AOC in achieving perfection\u2026 We have no doubt that this belief and determination to be the best will lead us to victories in 2018. Our squads are hungrier than ever and we are happy to have partners who believe in our ambition and are always willing to help us move forward.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">This partnership follows a lot of progress G2 has made in the last year; in November alone, G2 announced partnerships with both <a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2017\/11\/g2-esports-announce-logitech-g-partnership\/\">Logitech G<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2017\/11\/g2-fernando-alonso-announce-fa-racing-g2\/\">Fernando Alonso<\/a>, as well as securing an <a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2017\/08\/fc-barcelona-midfielder-invests-g2-esports\/\">investment from FC Barcelona midfielder Andr\u00e9 Gomes<\/a> in March.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">Rodriguez also mentions that he believes the <a href=\"http:\/\/eu.aoc.com\/en\/gaming\/products\/ag251fz?redirected=true\">AGON series displays<\/a> will be \u201ca crucial part of our optimal training environment\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">It appears G2 esports are not slowing down any time soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>Esports Insider says: It\u2019s good to see G2\u2019s momentum isn\u2019t slowing down following such an impressive year, but it also remains refreshing to see hardware companies such as AOC furthering its involvement in esports, especially with its \u201cglobal esports sponsorship program\u201d.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Display specialist AOC has today officially introduced its global esports sponsorship program by partnering up with G2 Esports. G2 has won 79 championships across multiple titles, and AOC says it is \u201creadying itself to increase that number by providing the fastest gaming displays ever produced\u201d. Stefan Sommer, Director of Marketing &amp; Business Europe at AOC, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2018\/01\/aoc-g2-partner\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":10270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","esi_template":"default","excluded":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,55,106],"tags":[274,1636,2587,40,2717,764,3045],"class_list":["post-10269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commercial","category-esports-titles","category-latest-news","tag-aoc","tag-barcelona","tag-carlos-ocelote-rodriguez","tag-esports","tag-esports-sponsorship","tag-g2","tag-logitech-g"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - 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