[eecks]

Unless there's some hidden complexity to this site.. it looks fairly straight forward. Why have MS bought it?

[arleny]

I'd say since smash.gg is already the established method of organizing esports events across a variety of game communities, despite being straight forward.

[nwsm]

Same reason behind most tech acquisitions: the users

[marc__1]

or the team

here is the series A announcement from 2017, with some interesting VCs participating

https://blog.smash.gg/growing-our-team-at-smash-gg-912f1caaa...