esports: Orange (telecoms) main partner of Karmine Corp after being partnered with Team Vitality

Orange, a French telecommunications operator, has become a major partner and main jersey sponsor of Karmine Corp (KCorp, LFL) for the 2022 and 2023 seasons, announced the French esports club co-founded by streamer Kamel "Kameto" Kebir (1.1 million subscribers on Twitch) on 08/01/2022.

This partnership was made official during the gala match organised between KCorp and Koi (2-1), a Spanish team co-founded by footballer Gerard Piqué (FC Barcelona, LaLiga Santander) via his company Kosmos and Spanish streamer Ibai Llanos, at the Carrousel du Louvre (Paris, FRA) the same day. The video of the match registered 1.7 million views on Kameto's Twitch channel and 1.4 million on Ibai Llanos' channel.

The French group thus joins the pool of Karmine Corp partners (Samsung, Logitech, Red Bull, Chupa Chups, Direct Assurance, Rhinoshield and ekWater). After having been a partner of Team Vitality between 2018 and 2021, the most successful French esports club in recent years (in the LEC since 2015), Orange is changing partners in 2022. The telecoms specialist was also previously the title sponsor of…