# Nouns FE! - Sponsor a Pro Female Counter-Strike Team

## Introducing: Nouns FE (watch this!)

[![image](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/B1f2rZ27A.png "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GOdBc12ySg")](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GOdBc12ySg)

[mint this video on zora here! ](https://zora.co/collect/base:0x8c87d4e1ce0ded52394f1a4fbc31904d1ec519b3/1?referrer=0x56ebD346d5013A531105aAEeb574B31F003E11DD)

## 🌟TL:DR🌟

Sup Nouns! We are a female Counter-Strike team initially funded through a Prop-House round by Nouns Esports. We have had a very successful trial period of 3 months and have continued to represent Nouns without pay for the past 3 months (most of our professional season). We are now asking the DAO to double down and empower us to take things to the next level by funding our journey till the end of the year.

A couple things about us:

- Passionate representation from a rising top 5 ranked female team in North America, seeking to take Nouns to global in-person events and support inclusivity within esports, Web3, and the DAO. 
- Proliferation through audience engagement, including content creation, cementing a legacy, and encouraging gamers to join us onchain. 

![3](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/Byp0aKqXA.png)

(disclaimer: we are *not* becoming our own DAO - enjoy the graphic ^ \~^)

## 📖Our Story📖

Hello Nouns! ⌐◨w◨

Originally forming as "Category 5" in May '23, we sought to storm the female esports scene with a fiery, feel-good story of friends who found success doing what they love most! After a few tournament wins, we knew we could accomplish something great. 

We continued to aim for growth both individually and as a team, and have done so since. In our quest to grow, we were searching for like-minded partnerships to create cool stuff with, as well as playing in as many events as possible to gain more experience. 

As players aspiring to become the best of the best, we kept an eye on the top teams, which put Nouns Esports on our radar.

### 🏛️Prop-House, and our Nounish Origins🏛️

Through Nouns Esports, we hopped down the Nouns rabbit hole. We learned about Prop House, and realized that this was the perfect opportunity to prove our worth and the ideal environment to nurture our growth. After joining their contributor call and asking many questions, we built and finalized a candidate draft. Multiple iterations later, we hit submit :)

Campaigning around Nouns Esports was the most fun part of the process. We were inspired by our nounish friends who have contributed to the virtuous cycle, and seeing firsthand what they've built.

We were super lucky to become part of that process, with our first prop passing with 8 votes [here](https://offchain--prop-house.netlify.app/nouns-esports/compete/8593). :D

![finalbwompyesss mmm](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/r1Dak5cQR.png)

### 💁‍♀️ Repping Nouns So Far 💁‍♀️

Now waving the Nouns flag in the women's esports scene, we qualified to ESL Impact Season 5. ESL Impact is the top professional league for women & marginalized genders. As one of our goals from our first prop, this was a huge milestone for us - accomplished through our hardwork as well as additional resources from Nouns Esports❣ 

As of today, we have come a long way as a team and our aspirations have grown. We are now a top 5 women's team in North America as well as regular competitors in regional tournaments, all while sporting nounish gear & and making content for socials!

### 📝The Story Continues...?📝

Inspired by Nouns Esports, along with their support, we've decided to write a prop ourselves! We have always been autonomous in our management, and submitting a prop to the DAO seemed like the natural next step for us, and a big flex in the diversity of our skill sets. Through the funding, we will be able to provide a salary that is sustainable for our members to keep prioritizing competition and content. This would empower us to keep our rose tinted noggles on and pursue the professional nounish lifestyle that we dream of.

Through being great ambassadors in the scene, we will help write the next chapter of Nouns becoming a household name. In doing so, we hope to inspire other women into being competitors and creators in the gaming space as well. With the votes of some friendly neighborhood Nouns, we'll be able to constantly push for greater performance, while strengthening the personal bond between our audience, our players, and the DAO.

![actual final but deadass this is the final version no more exports](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/SkdhTvyGR.jpg)

### 📌Our Nounish Journey So Far📌

Since our debut within Nouns, the team dove head first into the ⌐◧w◨ culture. 
Here are some things that have been written about us:

1. [Proposal via Prop House to Nouns Esports passed and team funded](https://offchain--prop-house.netlify.app/nouns-esports/compete/8593) 
   - [Dust2 Article Here](https://www.dust2.us/news/41734/nouns-pick-up-womens-squad_)  
2. [Qualified to Impact Season 5](https://x.com/ESLImpact/status/1759593692946649312?s=20)  
3. [Won Nouns Esports Prop-House Open Builders Round](https://prop.house/0xb824920f50df203feaf485362eaa8179fd672d37)  
4. [Became a top 5 team in North America](https://femalecs.com/ranking) 
5. [The first Nouns Esports team to join Farcaster](https://warpcast.com/sasquatch/0x15a8d5eb) 
6. [Delegated + First Votes Submitted in Nouns Camp!](https://warpcast.com/lunari/0x8aaace8a) 

![current nouns delegates jpeg](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/BJ_83zQGC.jpg)

Yes, you read that right!!! Thanks to onizuka's delegation, we are now sharing the power of Nouns 117 and 271 to be actively voting on NounsDAO Proposals. At the moment, we have a separate channel in our discord specifically for discussing, learning about, and voting on current proposals (taking some notes from you, Nouncil 👀). 

### 🏆 Wins and Top Placements 🏆

- 1^st^ Place - ESL Impact S5 NA Open Qualifier 1 
- 1^st^ Place - ESL Impact Cash Cup 6: NA Winter (2024) 
- Semi-Finals - ESL Impact Cash Cup 3: NA Winter (2024)  
- 2^nd^ Place - ESL Impact Cash Cup 6: NA Fall (2023) 
- Semi-Finals - ESL Impact Cash Cup 7: NA Fall (2023)  
- Finals in Lower-Bracket - Super Gamer Girl Pro Championship Qualifier 

![ESL IMPACT BANNER draft](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/BJVLqw7z0.jpg)

### 🎞️Content Numbers🎞️

Total content views while repping Nouns: 560,284+
(Includes Twitter, TikTok, Farcaster, YouTube, Instagram, Twitch - all avenues which we rep the DAO) 

## ✨Our 2024 Goals✨

- Qualify for Major Events, WIN (or learn together) 
- Establish a consistent content pipeline creating both long & short form content 
- Encourage & incentivize our passionate audience to join us on Discord & Warpcast 
- Continue to be an advocate for women's esports, inclusion, and a Nounish Web3 
- Help pave the path for dreamers & builders who stake their time and energy into their true passions 
- Explore and interact further within the wider Nouns community!! (We've spent a lot of time engaging with communities such as Rounds, NounCraft, Yellow Collective, nounspace, The Noun Square, and more. One of our players (nounslunari.eth) is even working on a nounish side project to plant trees in places of need, called [nountrees!](https://warpcast.com/~/channel/nountrees) 

![5](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/Syl1ecqQC.png)

## 💖Warpcast, Rounds, and Audience-Boarding💖

NounsFE is the first ever esports roster on Farcaster!

We will be incentivizing our supporters, as well as the larger CS community to join us, by hosting a variety of rounds or contests within the [CS2 channel](https://warpcast.com/~/channel/cs2) (+gaming channels, nounish channels, and potentially our own!). We believe we can onboard Counter-Strike fans onchain through fun rounds and contests     

![wallets](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/S16jzimJC.jpg)

We'll be encouraging our community to create content, nounish memes, and art to infuse culture into the wider female and co-ed Counter-Strike space, with a boost from web3. We believe our audience would be totally on board with this, given the already vibrant digital market in Counter-Strike. 

We plan to host:

- Meme Rounds to Proliferate Events (these are very popular on our livestreamed matches) 
- /CS2 Rounds to Bring Gamers onto Farcaster and learn about Nouns x Web3 
- Giveaways for In-Game Items & Nounish Merch After Notable Wins 

Also, when we make it to LAN events like DreamHack, we'd love to help host a workshop/booth with Nouns Esports for women and new competitors aspiring to enter professional gaming. 

## 💰Budget💰

Duration: 8 Months (May-December)

- Five Player Salaries - 84,800 USDC 
  - 2,000 USDC per month for each player, allowing them to focus on competing at the highest level possible, with bonuses for remarkable contribution, leadership, and management of the team 
  - Most of our players are students and/or part-time web2 workers. A salary would allow them to lean into Web3, and spend time building their brand via content creation, streaming, and interacting  
- Coach Salary - 16,000 USDC
  - We are fortunate to have a versed, absolute gem of a coach with expertise in Esports, formerly associated with EG (a top 20 most earned esports team across 2 decades, qualifying to multiple in-person tournaments) & ECL League (He hypes us up too :D).  
- Practice Servers - 650 USDC
  - Industry standard practice tools, including servers, comprehensive training, better server routing, and analysis  
  - [Refrag](https://refrag.gg/)  
- League Fees - 400 USDC
  - This covers the cost of the co-ed leagues (ESEA) that we compete in for the rest of the year  
- Content Creation Budget for 8 Months - 9,261 USDC 
  - Video editor versed in long form & short form CS2 content - 5,561 USDC 
  - Channel Management/Strategist + Thumbnail Design - 1,200 USDC
    - We want to have dedicated editors and creatives on our team, aiding us in our goal of putting out entertaining team and educational content.  
  - Audience Engagement & Rounds - 2500 USDC
    - This also allows us to host fun rounds for the community to increase engagement with the team and build branding. We will also educate the community on Web3, and incentivize wallet creations and interactions with the DAO   
- Total - 111,111 USDC
  (2/3 multi-sig with nounslunari.eth, jesscas, and sasqwash.eth) 

![NOUNS FE BANNER compressed JPEG](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/Byvf0s-fR.jpg)

## Outro Video! (ADD JUICY END CARD w/ the prop number?)

[![image](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/BJo8FW2Q0.png "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJXx7YGtwaE")](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJXx7YGtwaE)

Outcome: EXECUTED