At the Colors Cup, tactical gameplay, live matches, and show games meet music, art, and international cuisine. The Colors Cup stands for diversity, fair play, and respectful community - and sends a clear message against hate, discrimination, and exclusion in esports.
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The idea for the Colors Cup was born at a kitchen table in early 2025. In an intense conversation,
Anna Maria Russi and her adult sons Gianluca and Leandro reflected on their many years of
experience in the international esports scene. They talked about major tournaments and strong
communities, but also about exclusion, discrimination, and the lack of safe spaces in the digital
world.
This honest exchange shaped a shared attitude and, from there, a new concept.
From the
beginning, the Colors Cup has been designed as an inclusive space. Inclusion is
not an add-on, but the foundation. The strength of the project lies in its personal and professional
multi-perspective approach. Leandro contributes professional esports experience and direct access to
the
community. Gianluca adds analytical expertise, strategic thinking, and a structural perspective.
Anna Maria Russi combines these impulses with educational expertise and
experience in participatory project development.
The result is a unique concept in
which scene experience, analytical clarity, and educational responsibility
work together.
At the Colors Cup, inclusion means concrete access instead of symbolic
gestures. Barriers are deliberately removed. People, regardless of origin, gender, sexual
orientation, disability, or social background, are actively included. Through lived
participation, participants become co-creators, and democratic values such as co-determination,
fairness, and dialogue become tangible.
Access, freedom, and peace shape the Colors Cup.
Gaming becomes a space for encounters at eye level and for togetherness that lives diversity as a
strength.
I am 52 years old, a state-certified educator, self-employed in coaching and workshops, and the founder of the Colors Cup together with my sons Leandro and Gianluca de Nittis. As a mother and as the daughter of migrant workers from southern Italy, different lifeworlds, cultural perspectives, and the experience of belonging and exclusion shape me in equal measure.
For many years, I worked in open child and youth work as well as outpatient youth welfare. My focus areas are intercultural competence, inclusive education, and participatory project development. I work resource-oriented and strengthen self-efficacy, responsibility, and social skills.
Today, I support people and projects in coaching processes and workshops. I teach social and intercultural skills, support lived participation, and work systemically. A particular focus is awareness: consciously shaping discrimination-sensitive and safe spaces where diversity is lived respectfully.
I am actively involved in the city community and serve on the Foreigners' Advisory Council. Participation, dialogue, and respectful coexistence are, for me, lived responsibility.
Through my long-standing closeness to the gaming and esports scene, and as the mother of a professional esports player, I have experienced digital communities up close. I am convinced that digital spaces are social spaces and therefore educational spaces. Young people do not need bans there, but support, orientation, and shared mindfulness.
Inclusion, participation, and democratic values form the foundation of my work. My goal is to create access, remove barriers, and shape spaces where freedom, respect, and peace are a given, online and offline.
I am Leandro de Nittis, 21 years old and an esports player for more than four years, a passionate streamer and content creator, and founder of the Colors Cup. Together with my mother Anna Maria Russi, I created an educational esports event that stands for inclusion, respect, and real community. In Wiesbaden, we are bringing a VALORANT tournament to the stage in Wiesbaden, along with an experience featuring music, food, and space for encounters. The Colors Cup connects competition with togetherness and shows how strongly esports can bring people together.
"As a design and development agency, we see great potential in this project. Since we are gamers ourselves, we strongly identify with the tournament and its idea. Our goal is to create a professional yet emotional tournament presence that reflects the values of the Colors Cup."
"As a broadcaster of international sporting events, we know that esports holds great potential and requires highly innovative broadcast technologies. Our trainees will realize this new event format independently using a state-of-the-art outside broadcast vehicle and can develop in several ways in the process. The Colors Cup is modern esports with an explicit fair play factor - a role-model combination that TVN is happy to support."
"We at Computer Club Südhessen e.V. support the Colors Cup Wiesbaden because we are convinced by the overall concept. Our own event, BieberLAN, which we have been running for 25 years, also stands for diversity, respect, community, and tolerance."
"As a platform that works with streaming, content, and digital communities every day, we see the Colors Cup as a forward-looking project. We want to help develop esports as a respectful, open, and creative space."
The Colors Cup takes place on December 11 and 12, 2026 at Kulturpalast Wiesbaden.
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Participation and attendance at the event are permitted from age 16. The aftershow party is for ages 18 and up.
The team list will be published after qualification has concluded.
There will be a varied selection of food and drinks. More information will follow.
