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Innovative Global eSports Soccer Tournament, WHO WANTS IT, Kicks Off with
Pope Francis in Rome to Benefit Scholas Occurrentes
NEW YORK, USA – July 21, 2021 – The founders of the global eSports soccer tournament
“This is the first global eGaming platform that engages diverse communities, including black,
brown and Latino kids, to support a sustainable social impact for education,”
Scheduled for late Q3/ early Q4, the innovative tournament will leverage the social impact with
kids from diverse backgrounds across the world.
“This is the first global eGaming platform that engages diverse communities, including black,
brown and Latino kids, to support a sustainable social impact for education,” said Briant Biggs,
Founder of Unanimous Games, the company that created the tournament and the platform.
“Who Wants It is a dynamic charity event that leverages the cultural capital of gaming and
scales them with platforms from our global partners PVBLIC Foundation, Origen WW, Scholas
Occurrentes, the Pontificial Foundation created by Pope Francis’, through its Transforming
Education Donor Fund, TV2U, Kick It Out, CIEN+, AASU. We believe that our e-gaming
platform will lead the way as a mechanism to bring together public and private partners to
deliver on social agendas”.
“We are especially excited about launching this partnership on the heels of a meeting with His
Holiness Pope Francis at the Vatican, where we presented this initiative and had him sign the
commemorative English football,” said Sergio Fernandez de Cordova, Chairman of PVBLIC
Foundation and Director of Transforming Education Donor Fund. “Through this partnership and
the Transforming Education Donor Fund we will continue to advance the mission and vision ofPope Francis while mobilizing the world’s best eGaming platform to bring youth from around the
world to compete and drive social impact and promote peace around the world.”
For the tournament, Unanimous Games have also partnered with Kick It Out, English football’s
equality and inclusion organization. Kick It Out serve under-represented and minority
communities in football and strive to eliminate discrimination, educate communities and inspire
a new generation of people in the sport. The partnership will see both organizations work
together to support the overall mission of the tournament, by promoting an inclusive
environment for participants.
HOW IT WORKS
Who Wants It will bring amateur FIFA21 gamers together to compete globally for a chance to
play against 2 select English football stars in a worldwide competition all for charity. The
tournament will take place on Unanimous Games and TV2U’s eGaming platform, BRITE
Technologies, where every participant will register to compete on and spectators can register to
watch. There will be no entry fee to participate; but, there will be a donation link.
The tournament features a One vs. One Single elimination Knockout Tournament to determine
the top 2 players globally on each console. The Grand Finale will have the top 2 players play
against 2 professional English football players to win a chance to meet Pope Francis at the
Vatican and to see who will be crowned the Ultimate Champion.
For sponsorships, please contact Tara Enahoro at tara@unanimousgames.com.
For donations, please contact Stephen Keppel or Sergio Fernandez de Cordova at
donorfund@pvblic.org.
For more information about Who Wants It, please visit whowantsit.games.
ABOUT UNANIMOUS GAMES
Headquartered in New York, New York, Unanimous Games (UG) is a full-service eSports and
digital entertainment company bridging the gap between the eSports industry and the
entertainment world. Our mission is to give an amplified voice to an underrepresented
community of gamers and gaming enthusiasts. UG specializes in developing branded content,
sponsored activations, data analytics, game and app development, eSports Talent Management
and STEM education. Not only are we providing an elevated gaming experience on the front
end, our aim is to provide every gamer within our ecosystem the opportunity to explore the
business of eSports on the back end as well.
For additional information about UG, visit the official website: unanimousgames.com.ABOUT PVBLIC FOUNDATION
PVBLIC Foundation is an innovative non-profit organization that engages global changemakers
and mobilizes media, data, and technology for social impact, creating powerful partnerships to
advance and accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Foundation serves
as a bridge connecting public, private, and nonprofit sectors, plugging innovations into social
agendas and helping governments, NGOs, and intergovernmental organizations amplify their
impact. The foundation has managed programs and partnerships that have reached more than
a billion people in 125 countries and inspired global action on the SDGs.
For additional information about PVBLIC Foundation, visit the official website: www.pvblic.org.
ABOUT SCHOLAS OCCURRENTES
Since its inception, Pope Francis dreamed of Scholas as the possibility of giving a concrete
response to the call of this era, conferring on him the task of educating in the openness to the
other, upon hearing that gathering the pieces of an atomized and empty of meaning world, and
start creating a new culture: the Culture of Encounter. Today, more than twenty years after his
first experience in Argentina, dreamed up by the then archbishop Jorge Bergoglio – today Pope
Francis- Scholas is constituted as an International Organization of Pontifical Law, with offices in
Argentina, Vatican City, Chile, Colombia, Spain, Haiti, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Mozambique,
Panama, Paraguay, Portugal, Romania and the United States; present with its network in 190
countries, integrating more than 400 thousand educational centers and reaching more than one
million children and young people around the world.
For additional information about SCHOLAS, visit the official website: www.scholas
occurrentes.org.
ABOUT TRANSFORMING EDUCATION DONOR FUND
The Transforming Education Donor Fund (TEDF) aims to combine art, sports and technology in
order to promote culture through education, bringing together global agendas and empathy
among humans to build a better tomorrow, starting with our youth. TEDF was developed as a
partnership between Scholas Occurrentes and PVBLIC Foundation with a mission to bring
investments to achieve the integration of students with the help and the commitment from
various social actors, bringing together schools and educational networks around the world with
different technological, athletic and artistic proposals.
The Transforming Education Donor Fund is a Donor Advised Fund (DAF) that can be supported
with any asset contribution – cash, stock, or other assets.
ABOUT KICK IT OUTKick It Out is English football’s equality and inclusion organization.
Kick It Out serve under-represented and minority communities in football, supporting them in
every area of the game – from grassroots to the Premier League, from the pitch to the side lines
and from the stands to the boardroom. They do everything in their power to eliminate
discrimination, educate communities, and inspire a new generation of people in the sport.
Football should be a game for everyone, whether they play it, work it in it or support it.
Find out more about the work of Kick It Out at: www.kickitout.org.
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