Work

Shows, tournaments, and brand programs, from concept through delivery.

Packs.com · 2026 — present

Packs.com

Consultant

Packs lets you open digital packs of trading cards and have the physical cards shipped to you. I came on in March to work the parts of that business that run on relationships: creator partnerships across Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon, and Riftbound, and connections to the vendors and suppliers who source the cards themselves. I have also helped design some of the Magic and Riftbound packs on the site, and put together their launch party at MagicCon.

Creator partnerships across Magic, Pokémon, and Riftbound
Vendor and supplier connections for card sourcing
Pack design for Magic and Riftbound
Launch party at MagicCon

Riot Games and Laughing Dragon · 2025 — present

Riftbound

Creator, Consultant, Business Development

Riot's League of Legends trading card game sits exactly where my two audiences overlap, so I have worked it from both sides. I make content for players coming to it from League, and I consult for tournament organizer Laughing Dragon on the partnership side.

Content for an audience arriving from League, not from card games
Consulted for Laughing Dragon, securing multiple Riot partnerships

FlyQuest · 2025

Duel Land

Concept, Production, Host

FlyQuest came to me wanting something that had not been done: a tournament that put esports and trading card games on the same stage. I worked it end to end, from the concept through booking the talent, sourcing production and creative, and helping bring an endemic sponsor on board.

16 high-profile TCG and streaming influencers
14 hours of live broadcast
Facilitated endemic sponsorship with SpaceCow Media

Chipotle and Grubhub · 2022

Hotline League Worlds Tour

Host, Producer

Took the show on the road during the League of Legends World Championship, with a run of live audience shows across five venues in three cities, built as branded programming for Chipotle and Grubhub.

5 venues across 3 cities
Original branded programming, concept through delivery

Wizards of the Coast · 2023

Lord of the Rings Set Launch

Creator Partner

Worked directly with the Wizards of the Coast marketing team on the release of Tales of Middle-earth, producing content around the set launch for an audience that largely came to Magic through gaming and esports rather than through card games.

Direct collaboration with WotC marketing
Continued work across later sets

Spotify Studios and Riot Games · 2021 — 2023

Rift Reaction

Host

A Spotify Original from Spotify Studios, commissioned under Spotify and Riot's multiyear partnership. I co-hosted with LCS analyst Emily Rand. Each week we gave our read on what had just happened in League esports, from roster moves and rule changes to how a tournament had actually been run, with listener polls and Q&A built into every episode. Spotify ordered two 40-episode seasons.

Commissioned for two 40-episode seasons
Spotify Original, exclusive to the platform
4.9 average listener rating on Spotify

Alienware · 2017 — 2024

Alienware Partnership

Talent, Producer

A comprehensive partnership spanning everything I made, integrated across my full slate of content rather than bolted onto individual videos. Alienware also sponsored my international esports coverage, which is what made traveling to events abroad possible year after year.

5 consecutive annual renewals
Integrated across my entire content slate
Sponsorship of international esports coverage

Independent · 2017 — 2025

Hotline League

Creator, Host

The call-in show that became a fixture of League of Legends esports. Fans phoned in to argue about the game, alongside guests from across the professional scene. It ran for eight seasons before I brought it to a close in 2025.

Eight seasons on air
Featured sponsorships from Alienware, Grubhub, Mastercard, and more
Guests from across the professional League scene

Travis Gafford Industries · 2023 — present

TGI Magic Nights

Founder, Host

A monthly Magic: The Gathering event for content creators and industry leaders across gaming and esports, hosted at esports team facilities. Deliberately new-player friendly, with a large share of attendees playing Magic for the first time, and prerelease events at every set launch.

Monthly cadence since 2023
Attendees drawn from across gaming, not just Magic
Prerelease events at every set launch

Dragonsteel and Riot Games · 2025

Panels and Stage Hosting

Host, Moderator

Moderating conversations on stage at industry and fan events. At Dragonsteel Nexus 2025 I hosted Adaptation, a conversation between Brandon Sanderson and Christian Linke, co-creator of Arcane. A novelist and a showrunner comparing notes on turning one medium into another. In 2026 I hosted the showmatch Riot ran for the launch of League Classic. Fifteen years of interviewing means I am comfortable steering a panel that is going badly and getting out of the way of one that is going well.

Dragonsteel Nexus 2025, Salt Lake City
Brandon Sanderson and Arcane co-creator Christian Linke
Host of Riot's League Classic launch showmatch

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