Christopher Brown Email & Phone Number

Bellevue, Wa, Us

∙Directed the global vision and strategy for Pokémon esports, premier events, livestream production, player management, and event rewards across 5 products - qualifying 2,000 players from over 50 countries/regions to annual World Championships with $1 million+ in prizes. ∙Set goals and created department structure with multiple global teams in order to prepare for future scale and growth.∙Directed ceremonies, livestream production, competition operations, player management, and staff to execute the 2022 Pokémon World Championships. The 2022 World Championships featured over 500 staff, 10,000+ unique attendees, 1,500 competitors from 50+ countries/regions competing across 11 tournaments, 400+ travel awards recipients, 13 simultaneous livestream productions in 7 languages, and $1,000,000 in prizes.

Bellevue, Washington

∙Managed budget, system design, development, and execution of annual global competitive series (live and online) that qualifies players for a World Championship in multiple age divisions for the Pokémon Trading Card Game, RPG, Pokkén Tournament, Pokémon GO, and Pokémon UNITE.∙Directed premier events and live broadcast productions in North America, Europe, Latin America, and Oceania.∙Directed global Pokémon UNITE Championship Series including including system design, development, launch, and management of online tournaments and live broadcast productions in North America, Europe, Latin America, Oceania, Japan, South Korea, and Asia Pacific.∙Supervised production for all live competition broadcasts (2,000+ hours since 2013)∙Managed a team of 8 employees and ~15 vendors for premier events, competition design and operations, live broadcast production, and player management.∙Managed award program distributing over $10,000,000 in prizes across 3 products. ∙Worked with external game developers and partners to ensure premier events and esports are aligned with global product goals, strategy, and content release schedules.∙Developed with a cross functional and international team global monthly online competitions for the Pokémon video game.∙After shutting down 2020 season in response to Covid; lead development, pitch, and launch for first-ever tentpole online tournament for the Pokémon TCG, video game, and fighting game in fewer than 60 days. Supervised remote tournament and broadcast operations. Developed with game studio team in client features supporting tournament functionality.

Bellevue, Washington

∙Created the business case and pitched the creation of the first account link between Nintendo and competitive Pokémon in order to support Championship Points for online play. Oversaw as business group stakeholder the 8 month development and successful launch of link in January 2020.∙Created the business case with team of marketing directors to launch an in house media studio to support turnkey live video production.∙Oversaw development, competition operations, merchandise support, and broadcast of Pokémon GO Invitational at the 2019 Pokémon World Championships.∙Directed livestream production, competition operations, player management, and staff to execute the 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 Pokémon World Championships. The most recent World Championships featured over 250 staff, 8,000 unique attendees, 1,800 competitors from 49 countries/regions competing across 8 tournaments, 300 travel awards recipients, 6 simultaneous livestream productions, and $500,000 in prizes.

Bellevue, Washington

∙Lead program development for organized play, including the Pokémon video game, trading card game, Pokkén Tournament, future titles, events, and livestreaming initiatives.∙Developed pitch for a quarterly International Championship event series that launched for 2017 season.∙Pitched, developed ROS, negotiated contract, and executed Pokémon Day on Twitch - a 8 hour studio live broadcast featuring diverse gameplay followed by a 24 animation and movie marathon that was the second ever broadcast of linear programming on Twitch.∙Developed and operated 2015 Pokkén Tournament Invitational including selection of invitees, broadcast, and tournament format.∙Pitched and launched Pokkén Tournament Championship Series - securing key partners pre-launch including the largest and second largest fighting game tournaments.

Bellevue, Washington

∙Developed pitch and business case for tournament livestreaming - launched and owned Twitch.tv/pokemon and sub brands for VG, TCG, and Pokkén Tournament gaining over 200K followers and 23MM views.∙Developed first systems to support livestreaming including talent management, brand guidelines, and internal processes to ensure compliance with ESRB and FTC regulations.∙Managed ROS development and onsite execution of the 2013, 2014, and 2015 Pokémon World Championship livestreams.∙Launched online tournament series with over 100,000 monthly unique entrants.∙Pitched, operated a pilot program, and globally launched local VG tournaments.∙Expanded VG program from 5 to over 20 countries and grew the number of live tournaments over 70X from ~20 global tournaments to over 1,500.∙Tournament Organizer for the 2013, 2014, and 2015 VG World Championships.

Bellevue, Washington

Executive producer and managing partner for Metagame Documentary - 2021 winner of esports video content series of the year and finalist for esports video content piece of the year, and esports video production team of the year. The eight part sequel to "The Smash Brothers" (#1 esports documentary of all time - Daily Dot) follows the five "Smash Gods" as they battle for fame and title from 2008 to 2015. The series premiered in an innovative new release format for a documentary where all eight episodes were streamed live in an exclusive deal with Twitch. This first-of-its-kind release generated immense buzz, reached over 1 million viewers, and trended #2 in the US on Twitter organically. A second airing special event, The Gods Respond, was also viewed by over 1 million people. More information about the series can be found on metagamedoc.com.

Bellevue, Washington

Owner of Smashboards.com. SmashBoards was originally launched in 1999 and has generated over 300 million views since 2012. SmashBoards routinely enters Alexa's global top 20,000 website ranking during launch years for the latest Smash game - most recently peaking near the top 14,000 global websites in 2018 for Smash Ultimates launch. With over 285,000 members, 60,000 Facebook followers, and 40,000 Twitter followers, Smashboards is one of the largest and oldest gaming websites in the World. A sister site, Squidboards.com, was launched in 2015 for fans of Nintendo's Splatoon and has over 25,000 members.

∙Directed dozens of competitions for Major League Gaming's Pro Circuit overseeing up to 16 referees, handling match scheduling, bracket operations, dispute resolution, feature match coordination for broadcast, and consulting on rule document creation. Games directed include Super Smash Brothers Brawl, Halo: Reach, King of Fighters XIII, Soul Calubur V, and Mortal Kombat.

Freelance feature writer for MLGPro.com∙Wrote learn to play articles for 'Get Better Fast' series∙Wrote biweekly editorial articles and interviews with pro players ∙Wrote post event content for the 2005 and 2006 Pro Circuit∙Managed voting and wrote content for MLG 2005 Pro Choice Awards (Melee)

Master Of Education - Med

Activities and Societies: Esports InitiativeOperated The Esports Initiative's first three tournaments in the OSU Student Union, raising.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), History

Activities and Societies: Founding member of the Esports Initiative, Delta Upsilon International Fraternity, Phi Alpha Theta National.