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Ares United
Ares United  /  Built in the open

Built by the room.
Funded by the room.
Paid back to it.

Ares United is a competitive esports organization running on no capital and no investors. The Council funds the org, and the org routes that money straight back to the creators, streamers, and players who build it. Every dollar published, every month.

Est. 2026  /  Ares United
Who we are

We are not building an audience. We are building a room.

Most orgs are built the same way. Money comes in from the top, decisions get made behind a door, and the community finds out when the announcement graphic drops. We are running the opposite play.

Ares United is funded by the people who watch it. Council dues pay for rosters, gifted subs, and creator retainers, and the ledger is public. If a month goes badly, you will read about it here before you read about it anywhere else.

The Council

Your dues fund somebody's stream.

Most orgs ask the community to buy merch. Ares United asks the community to fund the community. Every tier converts into real support for the creators and players inside the org, and we show you exactly where it landed.

Step 01 You join

Monthly or annual dues from Council members. No investors, no equity, no board seat for sale.

Step 02 You pick a streamer

From Warrior up you choose a signed Ares United streamer, and the org gifts them a sub in your name every month.

Step 03 We publish it

Every gifted sub and payout shows up in the monthly report with the creator named and the amount attached.

Rank 01

Initiate

$60 / year

Annual only

  • Council Discord access
  • Initiate badge and flair
  • Public poll voting
  • 24 hour early merch access
Rank 02 Popular

Warrior

$15 / month

or $150 a year

  • Everything in Initiate
  • Pick one signed Ares United streamer at signup
  • The org gifts them a Tier 1 sub every month, on us
  • Expanded poll voting
  • 10 percent merch discount
  • Name on the Council wall
Rank 03

Guardian

$35 / month

or $360 a year

  • Everything in Warrior
  • Your streamer's gifted sub upgrades to Tier 2, every month
  • Strategic poll voting
  • 20 percent merch discount
  • Priority merch drops
Rank 04

Champion

$100 / month

or $1,000 a year

  • Everything in Guardian
  • Tier 3 gifted sub to your streamer, every month
  • Or split it: three Tier 1 gifted subs across up to three streamers
  • Insider poll voting
  • Monthly t-shirt tied to your chosen streamer
  • 30 percent merch discount
Rank 05

Herald

$250+ / month

or $2,500+ a year

  • Everything in Champion
  • Custom mix of Tier 1, 2, and 3 gifted subs across multiple streamers
  • Your logo or name on stream banners, jerseys, and support materials
  • Custom Discord role
  • Annual meetup or call
  • Locked in pricing for life
  • Credited in all org materials

Gifted subs are routed to signed Ares United streamers and listed by name in the monthly report. Council input is non binding, and every decision it shapes gets published either way.

Valorant  /  Active roster

Five to start. One ready.

The roster carrying Ares United into competitive Valorant. Signed, grinding, and funded end to end by the Council.

Full team page
The record

We film the whole thing.

Four series on a fixed schedule. If one of them goes quiet, that is a story too, and it goes in the report.

Daily

Day X

A short cut of what actually happened that day. Scrims, wins, losses, invoices.

TikTok, Instagram, Shorts
Weekly

The Build Log

The long form recap. What we tried, what broke, and what it cost to find out.

YouTube
Weekly

The Ask

One open question to the Council. The vote settles it, and The Decision explains the outcome.

Discord, Council
Monthly

By the Numbers

The full profit and loss statement, plus every creator payout listed by name.

Site, YouTube
By the Numbers

Nothing hidden. Not even the bad months.

No esports org has ever published a full monthly profit and loss statement. Ares United does, and the Council reads it before anyone else.

0

Outside investors on the cap table

100%

Of Council dues published line by line

12

Public reports per year, no exceptions

48h

From Council vote to published decision

What lands in every report

Same five sections, same day each month. You can compare any report to the one before it and see exactly what moved.

RevenueCouncil dues, sponsorship, merch
Creator payoutsGifted subs and retainers, named
RosterPlayer support, coaching, entry fees
OperationsSoftware, servers, production
Net positionSurplus or shortfall, either way
Join

Pull up a chair.

The Council is open. Dues start where you are comfortable, the money goes back out to creators the same month, and you get a vote on what happens next.

Or start with the reports

Every month we publish the full profit and loss statement, including every gifted sub routed to a creator, by name and amount.

Read the latest report