Bad Machines gives gamers a place to play in Durham

Glen Swan is the owner of Bad Machines, one of North Carolina's first esports bars that recently opened in an upstairs space in downtown Durham.
Posted 1/14/2023, 7:30:00 PM Updated 1/15/2023, 1:58:04 AM

I mean we don't want to be just a bar

A lot of the concept came to be at least

from from my my dream was to create a venue

that also had a bar um and a venue for

e sports to run exhibition matches

What we call kind of like a dream fights or

bar fights between really you know well known pros

So actually kind of using a bar using a profit

from the bar to kind of reinvested back into e

sports into the community uh to bring out a lot

of these really hot pros from other states where they

can compete here and just kind of like a 11

V one match because it kind of came about like

you know what if we had you know like Michael

Jordan and Larry Bird play one on one what people

want to see it even if it meant nothing and

the answer is like yes

You know we absolutely would like to do that right

So we're trying to apply that same concept to e

sports of like you know what if we have these

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