About Us

Our Story

We didn’t start RESPAWN because we saw a gap in the market.

We started it because we were the market — and nobody was talking to us.

Mobile esports is massive. MLBB finals pull millions of viewers. Free Fire tournaments sell out arenas across Southeast Asia and Latin America. PUBG Mobile pros are celebrities in their regions. But for years, the “serious” esports media barely acknowledged any of it.

So we built our own thing.

RESPAWN is headquartered in São Paulo, run by people who came up through the mobile gaming community — streamers, managers, content creators. We speak the language because it’s our language. Portuguese. Indonesian. Spanish. And yeah, English too.

We cover tournaments. We make tier lists. We post memes. We don’t pretend to be above the culture — we’re part of it.

If you’ve ever been told mobile gaming “doesn’t count” — welcome home.

Your second life in esports.

Meet the Team

Rafael “Rafa” Alves

Co-Founder

Brazilian streamer with 200K+ followers and former CBLOL commentator. Rafa didn’t just cover esports — he lived it. Now he’s building the media platform he always wished existed for mobile gamers.

📧 [email protected]

📸 @rafa_alves111

Rizky Pratama

Indonesia Editor

Ex-manager at team RRQ and former writer for Hybrid.co.id. Rizky knows Indonesian mobile esports from the inside — the players, the teams, the culture. If it’s happening in SEA, he’s already there.

📧 [email protected]

📸 @pratama_rizky93

Valentina Cruz

LATAM Editor

Veteran Free Fire LATAM journalist and contributor to ESPN Deportes Games. Valentina connects RESPAWN to the Spanish-speaking mobile gaming community across Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, and beyond.

📧 [email protected]

📸 @valentina_respawn

Sam Park

EN Editor

Mobile esports analyst and former writer for ONE Esports. Sam brings global perspective to RESPAWN’s English content — translating complex meta shifts into guides anyone can understand.

📧 [email protected]

📸 @sampark_respawn