Its nice that empire arcadia can be looked at in a positive light now (it did lay the groundwork for some things), but as someone who followed the FGC back in the day and heard accounts from EMP members themselves as well as triforce, there were definitely a lot of sketchy elements to it. Empire Arcadia was probably the most notorious group in the fighting game community for that reason. The current eSports model could use a lot of improvement but it's a HUGE step up from the empire days. Hopefully some black people can run eSports organizations and profit off of it.