{"id":2763,"date":"2020-02-13T15:53:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T15:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/red-reserve-return"},"modified":"2024-07-19T13:28:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T13:28:10","slug":"red-reserve-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/esports\/red-reserve-return","title":{"rendered":"Red Reserve make return despite former players going unpaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Reserve, who previously field teams in Call of Duty and CS:GO, are to relaunch despite&nbsp;owing hundreds of thousands of dollars to staff and ex-players.<\/p>\n<div id=\"traffective-ad-Content_1_887142\" style=\"display: none;\" class=\"Content_1\"><\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;Red Reserve is such a well-known brand and it&rsquo;s our desire to re-establish this brand and make it great again.&rdquo; said Red Reserve CEO Kim Alden in a <a href=\"https:\/\/redreserve.gg\/2020\/02\/13\/press-release\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a> that&nbsp;acknowledged the companies past but stressed that they are a&nbsp;new company with different management,&nbsp;&#8220;we completely understand the reputation that comes with the name RR, we will build trust back and we will show how RR should operate, we have reverted back to its original logo to symbolise a return to its more successful years.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Redreserve2020\/status\/1227923129542086656\"><twitter-widget class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" id=\"twitter-widget-0\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg);\"><\/twitter-widget><twitter-widget class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" id=\"twitter-widget-0\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg); width: 500px; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; min-width: 220px;\"><\/twitter-widget><\/p>\n<blockquote align=\"center\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\" data-twitter-extracted-i1581609388225755886=\"true\" data-twitter-extracted-i1581609487681883476=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Re-launch of Red Reserve<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Red Reserve is such a well known brand and it&rsquo;s our desire to re-establish this brand and make it great again.&rdquo; said Kim Alden, the new CEO of RR<\/p>\n<p>Full release: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OPp7RAq0OM\">https:\/\/t.co\/OPp7RAq0OM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Red Reserve (@Redreserve2020) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Redreserve2020\/status\/1227923129542086656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The previous iteration of Red Reserve closed its doors in April 2019 after running into financial difficulties citing the Call of Duty team&#8217;s &#8220;high salary requirements&#8221; as a contributing factor. At the time Call of Duty player Rhys &#8220;Rated&#8221; Price&nbsp;claimed he was owed &#36;40,000 in prize money.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation have acquired Relentless eSports LTD and their management team and&nbsp;will relaunch on the 14th of February with a focus on mobile esports, before branching into other games. They acquired the rights to the Red Reserve name late last year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Red Reserve Relaunch\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-cf.ginx.tv\/imgcdn\/GzmTLddAPPil0zHigT5cN02JLZYFtJXWtbWfImCffRk\/rs:fill:0:0:1\/g:ce\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ2lueC50di91cGxvYWRzL0Jhbm5lcl9pbWFnZXMvUmVkX1Jlc2VydmVfMS5qcGc\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 200px;\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They have signed a PUBG: Mobile roster and the team is expected to feature in the upcoming PUBG: Mobile PMCO Spring Split.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So Red Reserve is back, but whether than can rebuild the brand after the bad taste they left in many fans mouths is yet to be seen, with <a href=\"https:\/\/esports-news.co.uk\/2019\/04\/05\/red-reserve-accused-of-not-paying-call-of-duty-team-as-players\/\">money still owed<\/a> the current owners have a long way to go to repair the damage.<\/p>\n<p>And any&nbsp;suggestions that employees and players will be receiving money they are&nbsp;owed&nbsp;won&#8217;t find much to smile about in comments made by Kim Alden in a <a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2020\/02\/kim-alden-red-reserve-interview\/\">recent interview<\/a>&nbsp;with Esport Insider,&nbsp;&#8220;The problem is that we are a new company. We are new management, we have nothing to do with the old board members and company at all &ndash; they still work on other organisations out there. We are not going to pay off the debts that the old board members and the old company should.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Reserve, who previously field teams in Call of Duty and CS:GO, are to relaunch despite&nbsp;owing hundreds of thousands of dollars to staff and ex-players&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1325,"featured_media":2764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esports"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Red Reserve make return despite former players going unpaid - GINX TV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Red Reserve make return despite former players going unpaid - 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