Adam “Adz” Jessop has a long history in UK eSports, having started up Team Infused and attended Insomnia as far back as i13.
He originally set up Team Infused in 2005 and co-managed the organisation until early 2010, before leaving.
After a stint away from eSports, he’s back, having set up UK org Team Endpoint with rosters in CSGO and Overwatch.
With the ESL UK Premiership Summer Season around the corner – including an Overwatch Premiership for the first time – we ask Adam about his ambitions with Endpoint, his memories with Infused and his thoughts on the current state of UK eSports.
“We want to be a professional eSports team and get to the stage where we’re paying player salaries and we have top teams in the majority of the main eSports titles,” he told eSports News UK.
“I’m not trying to pretend that we’re amazing right now because I know we’re not – we’ve got a long road to travel. But the idea is that if we do things properly and we work alongside the partners that we can get on board, it’s an achievable goal.”
You can watch the video interview in full below:
You can follow Adam Jessop on Twitter and check out Team Endpoint’s website here
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
