This Mistake Cost Me $100,000

[@GothamChess]

Think you were just scared of me

[@jobandey]

shush lil bro

[@Seanythecool1]

Undiscovered gothemchess comment?

[@JamalJohnson177]

4th reply geez

[@xrandomdonalds695]

You vs tyler1

[@hyperchaz1506]

He was

[@Murkus]

It's easy to be bummed about a result not coming to fruition, but that shouldn't diminish all the work you've done. Call it an establishing year, you learned a lot, you created off brand, you've created an esports team, and you've still made stuff that supports communities you love. I genuinely think you're one of the best to ever do it, and I have full faith you'll continue to earn that respect.

[@JediJess1]

Well said!

[@pkkevin11]

You love to see the wisdom from mawkus

[@muradi9058]

Awesome comment, and I hope the majority of "Lud buds" feels this way! Nous t'aimons Luddyyy!

[@wakamoly7327]

Bro is glazing

[@berlin4103]

​@@wakamoly7327true the amount of glazing going on is crazy is that comment😅

[@FeuxMocha]

Sucks because you can tell how disappointed he actually is. Super excited to see what he has in store for next year. Keep it up man.

[@Plyometric]

Yeah, you can tell he is and it is sad. Keep going!

[@danepotmo2513]

He'll blow it again, just like he blew that job at Target all those years back

[@magaard5152]

I agree, i feel like we should send some balloons with cheerful slogans or something

[@ziggnis]

i think its so much better bcs the people that might participate will have more time to practice and show off better fights. man im excited

[@princesstoni8116]

He also said he had something planned for later this year, hoping it's a tarik Ludwig invitational or something!

[@Rockalanche]

Thank you Ludwig for prioritizing the health of everyone competing. Clearly, this is not the result you wanted, but it sounds like you are going about it the right way. Immense trauma to the head is always frightening and should be handled with the best safety measures possible.

[@brom8t]

Maybe don’t put chess players in the ring, just an idea

[@Spartan-sz7km]

@@brom8t LOL what a ignorant take

[@pablojams5152]

@@brom8tit’s like you ignore the fact that they try to match people by weight class and give them equal amount of time to practice their chess and boxing so they can be competent in both for the event. They aren’t just throwing chess players in the ring. Some of the matchups were also based on very physical people who would be worse at chess but be better at fighting

[@LantasticTV]

okay but props to shake for editing and uploading this literally in less than 6 hours

[@davidagrez4501]

Bro forgot about the old Ludwig grustle, the plan isn't as simple these days though :(

[@syphyt808]

12 hours? Try less than 6 😮

[@Iberium]

Right? This came out as I was watching the VOD just now because I didn't want to wait for the video, but here it is already lol

[@_Fraya]

holy shit is that lantastic

[@LantasticTV]

@@_Fraya nope :)

[@retrohipster1060]

I hate how real it is that sometimes the biggest failure in something planned has absolutely nothing to do with you. It's not that Ludwig didn't put in the work or the planning, it's that it just didn't pan out. 😢

[@feikkihurhur2175]

yeah... it did not indeed pan out😢😢

[@maziya23]

Much respect to Lud for being open, sincere and honest about the whole thing. So many lessons to learn from this man. Thanks for building a community like this. I'm so proud to be a fan.

[@modulusshift]

I'm glad you're committed to doing this right and safely. Greatest Gamer was a great time, and I'm hyped to hear you're gonna give us an even bigger 2024!

[@OfficiallySnek]

Ludwig you're always worth our time

[@abcdefzhij]

Plistenis!

[@sud0gh0st]

A bigger fail of your career would have been getting someone seriously hurt. Mad respect for putting it off to keep them safe

[@Just99jacob]

Definitely not a failure. There are ups and downs in everyone's careers but it's not the right attitude to call things out of your control a failure. Plus, this year wasn't even a down! You still hosted other events and grew on KZbin!

[@KevinLindstromMedia]

True, but I’d definitely say the event was a failure-2023 however, wasn’t. The event only failed because it didn’t happen, even if it’s not really within Luds control. However, I’d say that what Lud is doing is 100% a win. It’s unfortunate that money was lost, but doing the right thing, trying to get sanctioned, and communicating with us about what’s going on makes me respect Lud and what he is doing so much more. I watch because I feel that Lud is a funny guy and I enjoy the stuff that he creates. His honesty and frankness is I think what makes a lot of us like him. I come from the realm of Downhill MTB and I 100% understand the struggles of getting events sanctioned. Legitimately, USA cycling was only able to put up $350 for the winner at national championships, whereas independently run (but still sanctioned) events were able to give 15k in prize money for 1st place. Navigating this space is a mine field, but to hear that Ludwig is doing things right makes me respect what he is doing even more. And the willingness to put his values ahead of his interests shows they type of person he is. In content production, I definitely feel that the creator is always the worst critic. And I think the way he is articulating his disappointment shows that. But he’s going for 2024 and I’m so excited for the journey there.

[@Burssty]

This was edited so fast, I remember seeing this live less than 8 hours ago. Give your editor a raise bro

[@qwe174]

we found the editor alt acct.

[@jycegaming8530]

i mean it's basically a vod bro there's barely any editing on the vid

[@LantasticTV]

hi sarah burssty

[@IglooYT]

8 hours to post a unedited video is crazy lower the editor's salary

[@Trollololololful]

You don't even know how much his editor makes

[@Patterrz]

Really sad to hear, Chessboxing was one of my favourite events of 2022 and you can really feel now much effort went into it. It'll ber back better than ever next year

[@treasurechestgame]

Rip chessboxing for this year but atleast its coming next year

[@zayd162]

man the motivation on this guy is motivating me, The fact he feels ashamed ofthis too when he's already done more events this year than most, best of luck lud

[@skootlebop]

Sorry to hear it's cancelled, but I'm excited to say that Mogul Mail could never hope to achieve your ability to cover a topic so fantastically

[@MasterCWG]

Ludwigs "failure streams" still get 100x my live viewership 💀

[@dewgongdakota]

The content is still great Lud despite what a loud minority may say: you're doing dope stuff. We enjoy The Yard, Mogul Mail is only getting more high quality as time passes and your KZbin content on the main channel (while inconsistent) is still genuinely some of my favorite content on KZbin to this day (and I've been watching for nearly 4 years now). I anticipate chess boxing next year and whatever fun event you host / are a part of next. Being real, your content can occasionally be one of the few times I genuinely laugh in a day so to say the least: we 100% appreciate your content. Keep trying, I'm sure your next big thing will be far bigger than the first chess boxing.

[@EncodeGG]

Hope to see it make a come back in the future! None of it was wasted for those who enjoyed it!

[@myleslloyd1387]

Props to Ludwig for taking a hit in his "biggest failure yet" to make sure everything is run safe and well, much better then risking a rushed event and making a mistake you can't recover from. Defo down for the ride, happy to see sensible actions over cringe ones

[@estimatedmedian]

I think you probably get a lot of comments that start with "I don't know if you'll ever read this," so I'll try not to get all parasocial with you and just give you the average take of a totally average guy. I would be lying if I said I keep up with most of the youtube content or even if I said I keep up with the new day-to-day Ludwig main channel videos. But the events you run are incredible, I've rewatched all of them several times and when a new one is announced I always get excited, waiting in anticipation for a vod or youtube video. They're always incredible, and I think even aside from that, as another commenter said, you're one of the best to ever do it. You have fostered an incredible sense of community and I'm really thankful for your content, I've been with the channel since the early twitch era when the youtube channel was barely approaching 500,000 subs and to think it's a 5 million subscriber empire is pretty crazy to me. Hope you don't let these setbacks detour you from making more amazing stuff for this community. From one parasocial andy to another, I think you're pretty awesome.

[@becomingachristian]

You and QT make awesome events, I’m excited for what comes next

[@ohaiderimtravis]

The worst part is how bad Lud feels about this. You can tell he's beat up about not delivering this event for his viewers and employees, but nobody is sticking around here because of the big events. We're all just glad to see Lud happy when he comes through with those. His stress has come through in his content lately. I hope he can just chill out and have a good time making less stressful content soon.

[@AdiSharmaPiano]

Just goes to show why Lud is easily one of the best streamers out there; never seen someone so dedicated to providing the best for his audiences whilst also maintaining this level of transparency. Excited for what's to come!

[@ayol1011]

Him and moist is probably the two that hold this streaming personality shit together. Moist holding the gaming side, Lud holding the Variety side.. Sure there are bigger streamer but I feel like these two are the one that is pushing the boundaries of what streaming can do

[@BigChimppin]

Dont worry Ludwig you'll always be the guy who laughs at monkeys farting

[@Blue-kd3sq]

New billion dollar idea for Ludwig... Checkers Karate

[@Lucarioguild7]

Don't worry QT's boyfriend, one day you'll be as good at running events as her

[@Game_Erica]

Sucks that it's not happening this year, but honestly big props for wanting safety to be the most important thing. I'm very excited to see the event next year! (Also hoping that Tubbo and Skeppy could fight against each other still, because that's a fight I wanna see lmaooo)

[@AJGoff110]

As soon as you said you wanted to be sanctioned, I understood why it couldn't happen. The whole boxing ecosystem is unbelievably corrupt, and there is no way to do anything at a large scale without being involved in something shady. FIFA looks like a paragon of virtue compared to any of the boxing organizations.

[@8o8inSquares]

This is probably the best worst failure you could have, to be honest I don't consider this a failure either, it's an experience that you learned from and now you have plans and better ideas to create better things. Well done Lud, if you're reading this. Keep up the good work! P.S. the best gamer event was fantastic and worth the year.

[@elegy8187]

Nothing but praise to Ludwig for sticking to his values and not compromising on the safety of the competitors

[@ramsay2234]

Awesome to see you being open and candid about this. Sometimes its hard to put your ego into second place, and do the right thing. I can see why you feel like you are missing your capstone, but fuck it dude, you'll make it bigger and better next year. Keep being honest, and we will keep thanking you for it.

[@Concorde.]

Feel like this is worth mentioning as a life long combat sports fan and practitioner, the reason as to why stuff like Power Slap is allowed under NSAC's supervision is because Dana White, he is their golden child due to the success of the UFC and him having contacts in NSAC all the way to the top. That's the sad reality, it's a monopoly. And for any non combat sports fans wondering, no one who genuinely cares about combat sports takes that shit seriously.

[@JustANoob]

I'm sorry man, hopefully it can happen in the coming years!!

[@RalorPenwat]

Pretty scuffed that USA Boxing basically just said "banned in Nevada" because of a chess board that isn't there in the boxing match.

[@Plonom]

Ngl barely knew anyone on the card

[@normo9266]

Moral of the story is chess is obviously a very dangerous sport and we need to be more careful in the future

[@JNokkie]

lud, ur one of the best things to happen to youtube recently and we'll always wait for ur shit cause it's always been worth it.

[@CrepticMoon]

It's a shame to hear that it's cancelled. The guys at the Orleans Arena are super awesome and they were lovely to work with when I went through there with my tour. I hope you'll be able to work with them in the future.

[@XionicAihara]

damn, it's already been 9 months since the last one. It felt like it happened like this past summer. What an amazing and fun event. Sad to see it not happening this year

[@d0onut]

Chessboxing live was so fucking hype, down for the next event to match that energy rather than just working around the issues

[@sanofzen]

mogul mail would've made chess boxing an international success

[@loycross]

I need NEED to see Tubbo and Skeppy fucking up each other on the ring, it would be so stupid hype man...

[@texoco9280]

we all support you lud and now theres more excitment for next years event

[@AmpedZWeb]

I had the honor of working at Ludwig’s chessboxing event for 3 days including building the truss and stage. Excited to see the next one!

[@KillerTacos54]

That's so sad :( Hope that means next year's will just be bigger and better than ever. Sorry to hear that Lud

[@IzzyIsntReal]

Man I would have LOVED to see slime fight

[@mwalter98]

you just had to bribe them lud, its nevada

[@UhHuhThatsRight]

You should just do Chess Wrestling. It would be some much fun to watch a whole WWE style build-up, entrance, and fight between chess players. They could wear goofy outfits and then they'll just sit there after beating the hell out of each other and play a civil board game.

[@Zynnix]

You got this Lud. It sucks that things didn't work out for this year but we'll all be there for the event next year!

[@brandonisburied]

andrea and emily collabs were so wholesome, i loved seeing them training

[@3rdaaa]

I think we can all agree it's okay to sunset because there will be a sunrise again. Excited to see what in store in the future

[@4whomittolz846]

you could use the extra time start a petition to get Chessboxing certified as a sport. You can't get back the money or time you've already put in, but you can still clutch this out into a success.

[@krystaltempleton6501]

One of the most entertaining live events bummer it will miss this year :(

[@Zzz_top]

The honesty and transparency is respected. Wish the event would have come to Florida. You are good, my dude.

[@sllimjimsinkhole]

I just started watching your content this year and honestly all of the streams and hours of watching you has been worth my time. You make good and fun things to watch. You foster a community that isn't full of hate, but is full of silliness and joy. The circle of creators you bring to the channel are a delight and I look forward to all you have in store.

[@DeadRyGuy]

I gotta respect the honesty and integrity here. Especially the ability to self reflect and ask yourself why you're really doing it, in order to reach the most responsible conclusion

[@datbruh8469]

Is it just me or is this like the third time I've seen Ludwig lose insane amounts for a stupid reason

[@ImHaise]

Everyone loses money, lud just loses a lot more and isn't afraid to tell everyone about it LOL

[@oliver-nation4377]

Chess boxing: Magnus vs Hikaru would be insane.

[@abrarrahman2809]

Mad respect to LUD

[@MrCreeperKicker]

I can’t believe the last thing Jerma ever did was referee chess boxing, RIP to the GOAT

[@misterree]

Thank you for the introduction to chess boxing! I've seen some awesome fights after your first video!

[@ankontini]

How about Chess - Tennis ? More peaceful, less complicated, actually more entertaining. How about Chess - Beachvolley? Beach landscape, kinda sexier. Chess - Ping Pong? Chess-Yoga Competition! Chess-music battles. Chess-Bishop Factor Singing competition... I need something more wholesome than boxing. How about Chess - Kung Fu demonstration? You get points from chess games and Kung Fu forms demonstrations. Chess - Prix de Miami Ballet Competition. That would be fun!

[@teddy90636]

chess slap fight

[@squirrelwithfeet123]

Ludwig never fails to split my cheeks.

[@gregothy9190]

😦

[@VaughnFrederick]

Don't forget that you ran a couple dope Melee events. The entire Melee scene appreciates that you still see us and are willing to put some of your resources towards running events like LACS. 🙌

[@osmorphosis]

this man is actually so insanely incredibly inspiring

[@gsef4157]

this mf really thought he was bouta get Herb Dean to pop out

[@fringeofmadness]

I'm sure you've learned stuff even if the plan wasn't that simple, you'll come back better than ever, man. We're all still really excited to see what you come up with and we'll be here for the vibes until then

[@richmondlee6389]

Making a morally sound and emphathetic decision rather than a decision driven by ego/greed is really commendable.

[@NamuIsIdle]

[@lildmckay]

Very fun event to watch last year. You made the right call not rushing this one.

[@testchannel9352]

breaking my heart. you're doing amazing with the ebbs and flows. and care about your audience. your situation is high pressure I'm sure. wish the load could be lighter for you and wishing you and your whole ecosystem happiness and balance

[@BobbyWelcomePackets]

20:00 onward is a 10/10 mogul mindset. Very inspiring

[@PhillyEastSide]

2023 has been a write off for me too. Had to move to new city, spent 5 weeks in hospital due to kidney stone complications, had to step down from my team at work, had a mental breakdown and a bunch of other family/personal stuff... It sucks feeling like the year is a write off, but we live and we learn. Excited to see what content Lud creates in the future! 2024 is going to be a dope year!

[@flipina]

Hope you're doing better! And that your optimism rubs off on me 😅

[@PhillyEastSide]

@@flipina I am definitely still struggling, but I will get better - I can feel it! Life always has a way of ebbing and flowing, we just have to learn to enjoy the season we are in! Sending regards

[@Hello-xc6jq]

That is actually my streamer fr. Love the mindset to just keep it pushing and making sure everybody is safe and doing it the right way.

[@Ilikefunandgames]

Honestly, as much as I respect the work and bravery required to participate in and create the chess-boxing event, I'm also relieved that these amazing people aren't getting brain damage. Sorry I'm such a worrywart 😅

[@zoneout0]

agreed 17:18 made it clear fighter safety was his #1 priority.

[@daxster25]

For real, as someone that does train martial arts, youtubers and random people who have no experience in fighting have no place in the ring. People massively underestimate the amount of brain damage/trauma you receive from boxing even with regular untrained people. It's really not worth it

[@DtrJr]

my high ass didnt realize this wasnt mogul mail since i wasnt looking at my screen until 9 minutes in when someone in chat corrects him LMAO

[@dirt2968]

This is just the cost to pay to get Hikaru vs Magnus next time

[@real_schmucky]

Brother's casually telling his audience about his money laundering

[@AetherBoye]

If you do it in Florida you'd be able to get Charlie as well

[@zzeyght]

Ludwig's choice to do things right is just a huge W and I only got mad respect to take the L for canceling the event despite the sunk cost. This is my streamer

[@norabot2961]

that slap looked like a definite concussion. i got a concussion when i was on my high school cheer team and that kind of sudden movement of the head + pressure to the skull is exactly what caused mine and most other concussions

[@tmor9336]

Ludwig will go down in history as the man that knows how to stretch a story out long enough to get maximum ad revenue

[@lanmandragoran8337]

Every fight doesn't start with a handshake, but a kick/kick gentleman's agreement.

[@sammudd8828]

Yesss do the event in Florida. Maybe Charlie will compete if it’s in his state and doesn’t have to fly. He would be a great competitor for chess boxing, he’s fit and pretty good at chess

[@cloaked4681]

If you are wondering this is an example of how to make an apology video. Some of you may want to take notes.

[@venre-gamingandmore4330]

lud should absolutely do chess skydiving boxing, especially since those are my only 3 skills.

[@CaptainAntScapeFilms]

huge respect for your decision - not many context creators would have done the same, that’s why I love the content and your brand

[@json_bourne3812]

Bro that "slap" at 10:00 is practically a karate chop (side of the hand) to the guy's temple... dangerous as shit

[@renroxz4364]

Ludwig is the type of dude that always make mistakes and get a content out of it.

[@nolanbacon6181]

I'm seeing a connection between ludwig loosing 100 grand and him entering his 'bag' era with a bunch of sponsors lmao. Don't blame him at all

[@JagoooLand]

Hands down the most respectable person on this platform.

[@AkuFexin]

To be fair, you also started a valorant team this year and joined moist. I bet that's also very time consuming

[@joostfloot5279]

Really appreciate the transparency. One positive of moving the event is that the boxing quality would be a lot higher if the current card decides to keep training and partake in the event next year.

[@caleavenant6015]

the kickboxing no kicking homie rule is one of those things that sound do-able but would seem stupid in hindsight when slime roundhouse kicks his opponent

[@valthor9381]

what a series of unfortunate events. you definitely did the right thing even if it was a hard pill to swallow so props for that

[@Antonin1738]

When he said Vegas, it immediately made sense lol

[@CaelenSawyers]

Mad respect for cancelling with 3 shitty options that would still allow it to run.

[@roland8357]

As someone in the mma fight scene the boxing stations are way worse than mma and mma is even a headache

[@harshveersinhsodha6362]

20:12 even with all the serious talks he doesnt miss to diss squeax😂

[@jmarkellos]

Chat was disgusting in this. The vibe seemed to be "yeah lud, just compromise your vision and goals, run an unsanctioned event, and oh yeah just have the contestants full on kick each other."