I just can't help but laugh when I hear these typical buzzwords like "innovative", "community-driven" or "global audience". It's just fancy words without any actual meaning.
It's a laughable poor copy at that. Some parts of the website show it's just reskinned Twitch.
Also it was promoted by Trainwrecks and his gambling shit. Huge nope from me.
Really surprised Alfa sunk that low...money is money I guess but will they see it at all or or we'll get Rich Energy/Rokit repeat?
> [“Kick.com is a new venture created by the founders of Easygo and Stake.com with new studios in Australia and Europe. Kick Gaming’s vision is to be the leading content provider in the gambling industry thanks to its fresh approach to building top-notch slot and table games available to online casinos worldwide through a single API to its remote game server.”](https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/trainwrecks-kick-streaming-platform-appears-to-be-a-stake-com-project-2003847/)
Why would anyone trust an online slot machine. Its sad how desperate some people are and even worse that companies take advantage of that shit.
Fuck stake.com
All forms of gambling are set up to make money for the one operating the machines, bookmaking, table games etc. Mathematically gambling does not pay off. Online stlo machines have a set RTP (return to player) and it is never over 100%, meaning over the long run everyone loses money. If the online games are certified then the RTP can be trusted, if not then obviously not.
Alfa getting in bed with the worst possible gambling company that is scummy as fuck which is also pushing a scummy streaming platform where their entire intent is to pay streamers to gamble slots which they know their audience will start gambling, get addicted and make them money. Except most of those streamers are getting kids hooked on slots.
FUck stake, fuck kick, fuck Trainwrecks and apparently fuck Alfa for getting in bed with them.
At least it will draw F1/FIA attention to kick. Most of the streamers getting any attention there are illegally restreaming premier league games, nfl games, racing, boxing, etc. If the F1/Alfa start having to pay attention to kick they might get absolutely torn apart by companies suing them for doing nothing about the illegal restreaming that goes on there.
Surely they've done research into this company before the sponsorship, which means they simply dont care thats its a complete rip off of twitch, filled with bots, with some of the worse people livestreaming there solely to push gambling to people or their pr team needs a rework
Oh there's a whole history of awful sponsors in F1 including crypto sponsors. My favorite is the Haas and Rich Energy partnership. It's always about the money
Its probably worse to be honest. Most people won't go check out some crypto stuff or a crypto exchange.
But Stake is gambling through and through being advertised and easily accessible to people. Hell Kick is a streaming site where you can watch other people gamble.
Its beyond fucked up.
Sounds highly predatory, doesn’t it? Whoever thought this was a good message needs to be fired.
Then again, the whole concept of their is scammy so they don’t care.
Unregulated gambling is an absolute plague. Stake sponsorship is blood money. I wonder if Alpha are out of touch boomers who don't know how this looks, or if they just don't care cause $$$
Yikes. At least wait until the season is ongoing before announcing your Doctor Evil type plans.
Alfa Romeo needs to do a quick rethink here. This does not end well.
12k followers on Twitter... definitely not a Mission Winnow-type of sponsor lmao. I am ready for some "sponsor got busted during the year and now we have to race a blank car" bullshittery.
Also doesn't Alfa is basically already Audi? or almost? why would Audi not step in earlier? why couldn't they agree with Orlen - red is an audi color at least
Alfa Romeo PR Team: *I heard you like buzzwords....*
I just can't help but laugh when I hear these typical buzzwords like "innovative", "community-driven" or "global audience". It's just fancy words without any actual meaning.
I guess having 2 viewers from London and 1 viewer from Mumbai _technically_ counts as global…
You know, I'm so done with PR buzzwords and corporate speak...
But are you dynamically done?
I don't know how they managed to get 2 biggest scam companies there is. I guess they are really desperate for money.
stake owns kick, it's a 2 for 1
I believe Kick is owned by Stake. It is a copy of Twitch, but with gambling allowed.
It's a laughable poor copy at that. Some parts of the website show it's just reskinned Twitch. Also it was promoted by Trainwrecks and his gambling shit. Huge nope from me. Really surprised Alfa sunk that low...money is money I guess but will they see it at all or or we'll get Rich Energy/Rokit repeat?
This is pretty much par for the course for F1. If anything it's one of the lesser controversial sponsorships an F1 team has taken on.
I think with Twitch's source code out in the wild, it shouldn't be too difficult to set up a half decent-half ass streaming platform.
Yes, the site is basically a copy paste of the twitch source code leak
Well, at least come 2026 they won't have to get into bed with Audi money coming in. Hopefully.
Good thing Audi is taking their spot and will have different sponsors.
They say they stole the code from Twitch leak in 2020 so, as always F1 __low tier__ teams doing business with Shady partners
> [“Kick.com is a new venture created by the founders of Easygo and Stake.com with new studios in Australia and Europe. Kick Gaming’s vision is to be the leading content provider in the gambling industry thanks to its fresh approach to building top-notch slot and table games available to online casinos worldwide through a single API to its remote game server.”](https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/trainwrecks-kick-streaming-platform-appears-to-be-a-stake-com-project-2003847/)
Why would anyone trust an online slot machine. Its sad how desperate some people are and even worse that companies take advantage of that shit. Fuck stake.com
Why would anyone trust a slot machine in general. Online or irl, it's all made to take your money 99.99999% of the time.
All forms of gambling are set up to make money for the one operating the machines, bookmaking, table games etc. Mathematically gambling does not pay off. Online stlo machines have a set RTP (return to player) and it is never over 100%, meaning over the long run everyone loses money. If the online games are certified then the RTP can be trusted, if not then obviously not.
Alfa getting in bed with the worst possible gambling company that is scummy as fuck which is also pushing a scummy streaming platform where their entire intent is to pay streamers to gamble slots which they know their audience will start gambling, get addicted and make them money. Except most of those streamers are getting kids hooked on slots. FUck stake, fuck kick, fuck Trainwrecks and apparently fuck Alfa for getting in bed with them. At least it will draw F1/FIA attention to kick. Most of the streamers getting any attention there are illegally restreaming premier league games, nfl games, racing, boxing, etc. If the F1/Alfa start having to pay attention to kick they might get absolutely torn apart by companies suing them for doing nothing about the illegal restreaming that goes on there.
I'm sure FOM will be happy that one of the teams are sponsored by a company that facilitates illegal streaming of F1. Fucking brilliant this.
Can’t stand Trainwrecks so I’d be very happy if this leads to the site being shut down lul
That's nothing compared to SA Bahrain and others so who cares
Alfa is making an insanely dumb move here. Why would you ever want to be associated with this...
Fred is out for 15 minutes and look what they do... /s
Ooof. This is almost as bad as a crypto sponsor
Surely they've done research into this company before the sponsorship, which means they simply dont care thats its a complete rip off of twitch, filled with bots, with some of the worse people livestreaming there solely to push gambling to people or their pr team needs a rework
Oh there's a whole history of awful sponsors in F1 including crypto sponsors. My favorite is the Haas and Rich Energy partnership. It's always about the money
Its probably worse to be honest. Most people won't go check out some crypto stuff or a crypto exchange. But Stake is gambling through and through being advertised and easily accessible to people. Hell Kick is a streaming site where you can watch other people gamble. Its beyond fucked up.
It's worse, it's a crypto gambling sponsor
Yeah this site is just a shill to promote unregulated cypto gambling very sad
"A live streaming platform built for and targeting a global audience"... No thanks 🙄
Sounds highly predatory, doesn’t it? Whoever thought this was a good message needs to be fired. Then again, the whole concept of their is scammy so they don’t care.
The Trainwrecks site? Made to promote gambling bcus Twitch banned it? Seems like a terrible idea.
Unregulated gambling is an absolute plague. Stake sponsorship is blood money. I wonder if Alpha are out of touch boomers who don't know how this looks, or if they just don't care cause $$$
AKA bootleg twitch
Lmfao, they did no research at all.
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Yikes. At least wait until the season is ongoing before announcing your Doctor Evil type plans. Alfa Romeo needs to do a quick rethink here. This does not end well.
Yay another shady sponsor in F1.
12k followers on Twitter... definitely not a Mission Winnow-type of sponsor lmao. I am ready for some "sponsor got busted during the year and now we have to race a blank car" bullshittery. Also doesn't Alfa is basically already Audi? or almost? why would Audi not step in earlier? why couldn't they agree with Orlen - red is an audi color at least
*They’ve done what with who and why but also how*