Co-Founder - Esports Association
ACE
// 001 - Context
We wanted a place for players to actually belong.
After a good run with the TFT section at Nantes Esport, I decided to co-found an esports association with former managers who already knew what they were doing. That's the whole origin story: people who had run a section together, deciding to build their own.
ACE was born with one ambition: to create a strong point of connection for players looking to find their place on a team, and to be supported in improving both their individual and collective performance.
// 002 - What I did
Filed the paperwork. Then built the voice.
Secretary: building the thing itself
Founding an association is mostly admin, and somebody has to want to do it. I handled the organizational and administrative side: managing and writing the administrative files, organizing the poles, and setting up the collaboration tools the whole team ran on.
Head of communication
Then I put my communications hat back on. First as community manager, then as head of communication, overseeing a team of 3 to 5 graphic designers and community managers rather than doing every post myself. Learning to hand work over is its own skill.
Twitter & Discord
The team managed the association's Twitter account and Discord together. Same two platforms I'd run single-handed at Nantes Esport, except now the job was making sure other people could run them well.
LAN Tournament
The cherry on top: we kept organizing the Nantarena. I supported the team on the tournament itself and took an active part in the communication strategy, both in the run-up and on site, on the day.
// 003 - Results
Founded it, ran it, closed it properly.
0 → 300
Discord members, from launch to the server's peak
200 → 500
Twitter followers at the account's peak
142 players
Across three Nantarena TFT editions: 64/64 in 2023, 46/64 in 2024, 32/32 in 2025