+Added: FINANCIAL STATEMENTS .
BLACK RIDGE OIL & GAS, INC.
−Removed: CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
−Removed: September 30,
+Added: CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
Current assets:
−Removed: Cash and cash equivalents
−Removed: Accounts receivable
Receivable from Allied Esports Entertainment, Inc.
Prepaid expenses
−Removed: Current assets from discontinued operations
Total current assets
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Investment in Allied Esports Entertainment, Inc.
−Removed: Non-current assets from discontinued operations
−Removed: $ 142,865,980
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
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Deferred compensation
−Removed: Current liabilities of discontinued operations
+Added: Notes payable, net of $251,205 of debt discounts at March 31, 2020
Total current liabilities
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Commitments and contingencies
−Removed: Redeemable non-controlling interest
Stockholders' equity:
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Additional paid-in capital
−Removed: Accumulated other comprehensive income
Accumulated deficit
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Total stockholders' equity
−Removed: Total liabilities, redeemable non-controlling interest and stockholders' equity
−Removed: $ 142,865,980
−Removed: See accompanying notes to financial statements.
+Added: Total liabilities and stockholders' equity
+Added: See accompanying notes to unaudited condensed financial statements.
BLACK RIDGE OIL & GAS, INC.
−Removed: CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
+Added: CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
For the Three Months
−Removed: For the Nine Months
−Removed: Ended September 30,
−Removed: Ended September 30,
+Added: Ended March 31,
Management fee income
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Salaries and benefits
−Removed: Stock-based compensation and deferred compensation
+Added: Stock-based compensation
Professional services
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Other income (expense):
−Removed: Gain on deconsolidation of subsidiary
−Removed: Merger incentive expense
−Removed: Settlement income
−Removed: Settlement expense
+Added: Interest expense, including $13,795 of warrants issued as a debt discount
+Added: Loss on investments
Total other income (expense)
−Removed: Net profit before provision for income taxes
+Added: Net loss before provision for income taxes
Provision for income taxes
−Removed: Net profit from continuing operations, net of tax
−Removed: Net profit (loss) from discontinued operations
−Removed: Net profit before non-controlling interest
−Removed: Less net profit attributable to redeemable non-controlling interest
−Removed: Net income attributable to Black Ridge Oil & Gas, Inc.
−Removed: Other comprehensive income:
−Removed: Unrealized gain on investments
−Removed: Net other comprehensive income attributed to Black Ridge Oil & Gas, Inc.
+Added: Net income from continuing operations, net of tax
+Added: Net income from discontinued operations
+Added: Net loss before non-controlling interest
+Added: Less net loss attributable to redeemable non-controlling interest
+Added: Net loss attributable to Black Ridge Oil & Gas, Inc.
+Added: $ (2,645,579 )
Weighted average common shares outstanding - basic
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Net income per common share - fully diluted
−Removed: See accompanying notes to financial statements.
+Added: See accompanying notes to unaudited condensed financial statements.
BLACK RIDGE OIL & GAS, INC.
−Removed: CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
−Removed: Comprehensive
−Removed: Stockholders'
−Removed: Balance, July
−Removed: $ (36,308,492 )
−Removed: stock options granted for services to employees and directors
−Removed: Exercise of warrants
−Removed: income attributable to Black Ridge Oil & Gas, Inc.
−Removed: September 30, 2018
−Removed: $ (34,705,457 )
−Removed: Comprehensive
−Removed: Stockholders'
−Removed: Balance, July
−Removed: $ (36,788,926 )
−Removed: stock options granted for services to employees and directors
−Removed: attributable to Black Ridge Oil & Gas, Inc.
−Removed: Other Comprehensive income
−Removed: September 30, 2019
−Removed: $ (27,708,160 )
−Removed: Comprehensive
+Added: STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
Stockholders'
−Removed: Balance, January
−Removed: $ (35,143,888 )
−Removed: stock options granted for services to employees and directors
−Removed: Exercise of warrants
−Removed: income attributable to Black Ridge Oil & Gas, Inc.
−Removed: September 30, 2018
−Removed: $ (34,705,457 )
−Removed: Comprehensive
+Added: Balance, December 31, 2018
+Added: Common stock options granted for services to employees and directors
+Added: Net loss attributable to Black Ridge Oil & Gas, Inc.
+Added: Balance, March 31, 2019
Stockholders'
−Removed: Balance, January
−Removed: $ (35,487,902 )
−Removed: stock options granted for services to employees and directors
−Removed: attributable to Black Ridge Oil & Gas, Inc.
−Removed: Other Comprehensive income
−Removed: September 30, 2019
−Removed: $ (27,708,160 )
−Removed: See accompanying notes to financial statements.
+Added: Balance, December 31, 2019
+Added: Common stock options granted for services to employees and directors
+Added: Common stock warrants granted to employees and directors for personal guaranty on debt
+Added: Net loss attributable to Black Ridge Oil & Gas, Inc.
+Added: Balance, March 31, 2020
+Added: See accompanying notes to unaudited condensed
+Added: financial statements.
BLACK RIDGE OIL & GAS, INC.
−Removed: CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
−Removed: For the Nine Months
−Removed: Ended September 30,
+Added: CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
+Added: For the Three Months
+Added: Ended March 31,
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES
−Removed: Net income attributable to Black Ridge Oil & Gas, Inc.
−Removed: Net loss (profit) from discontinued operations
−Removed: Net income attributable to redeemable non-controlling interest
−Removed: Adjustments to reconcile net loss attributable to Black
−Removed: Ridge Oil & Gas, Inc.
−Removed: to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities:
−Removed: Gain on deconsolidation of subsidiary
+Added: Net loss attributable to Black Ridge Oil & Gas, Inc.
$ (2,645,579 )
−Removed: Merger incentive expense
+Added: Net income from discontinued operations
+Added: Net loss attributable to redeemable non-controlling interest
+Added: Adjustments to reconcile net loss attributable to Black Ridge Oil & Gas,
+Added: to net cash used in operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization
+Added: Loss on investment in Allied Esports Entertainment, Inc.
Amortization of stock options
−Removed: Deferred compensation
+Added: Amortization of stock warrants issued as a debt discount
Decrease (increase) in current assets:
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Accrued expenses
−Removed: Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities of continuing operations
+Added: Net cash used in operating activities of continuing operations
Net cash used in operating activities of discontinued operations
−Removed: Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities
+Added: Net cash used in operating activities
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES
−Removed: Cash disposed in deconsolidation
Purchase of property and equipment
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CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES
−Removed: Proceeds from exercise of stock warrants
+Added: Proceeds received from notes payable
+Added: Repayments on notes payable
Net cash provided by financing activities from continuing operations
Net cash provided by financing activities from discontinued operations
−Removed: Net cash provided by financing activities from continuing operations
+Added: Net cash provided by financing activities
NET CHANGE IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
−Removed: CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AT BEGINNING OF PERIOD
−Removed: CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AT END OF PERIOD
+Added: CASH AT BEGINNING OF PERIOD
+Added: CASH AT END OF PERIOD
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION:
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NON-CASH INVESTING AND FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
−Removed: Unrealized gain on investment in AESE
−Removed: Recognition of subsidiary equity upon deconsolidation
−Removed: BRAC Redemptions of redeemable preferred stock from trust account
−Removed: $ 126,205,985
−Removed: BRAC redeemable preferred stock transferred to equity
−Removed: BRAC stock issued in merger
−Removed: BRAC stock issued to settle intercompany debt
−Removed: BRAC loan and accrued interest assumed to settle intercompany debt
−Removed: BRAC stock issued to settle liabilities
−Removed: See accompanying notes to financial statements.
+Added: Value of debt discounts attributable to warrants
+Added: See accompanying notes to unaudited condensed financial statements.
BLACK RIDGE OIL & GAS, INC.
−Removed: to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: Condensed Financial Statements
Note 1 –
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On September 26, 2017, the Company finalized
−Removed: an equity raise utilizing a rights offering and backstop agreement, raising net proceeds of $5,051,675 and issuing 431,819,910
−Removed: The proceeds were used to sponsor the Company’s obligations sponsoring a special purpose acquisition company, discussed
−Removed: below, with the remainder for general corporate purposes.
+Added: an equity raise utilizing a rights offering and backstop agreement, raising net proceeds of $5,051,675 and issuing 1,439,400 shares.
+Added: The proceeds were used to sponsor a special purpose acquisition company, discussed below,
+Added: with the remainder for general corporate purposes.
October 10, 2017, the Company’s sponsored special purpose acquisition company, Black Ridge Acquisition Corp.
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BRAC’s efforts to identify
−Removed: a prospective target business were not limited to a particular industry or geographic region, but the initial focus of its search
−Removed: was for target businesses in the energy or energy-related industries with an emphasis on opportunities in the upstream oil and
−Removed: gas industry in North America.
−Removed: Following the IPO and over-allotment, BROG owned 22% of the outstanding common stock of BRAC and
−Removed: managed BRAC’s operations via a management services agreement.
+Added: a prospective target business were not limited to a particular industry or geographic region.
+Added: Following the IPO and over-allotment,
+Added: BROG owned 22% of the outstanding common stock of BRAC and managed BRAC’s operations via a management services agreement.
On December 19, 2018, BRAC entered into
−Removed: a business combination agreement and the business combination closed on August 9, 2019, as discussed in Note 5.
+Added: a business combination agreement and the business combination closed on August 9, 2019.
Following the close of the business combination
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Company is evaluating plans for the remaining Sponsor Shares which could include a distribution of some or all of the Sponsor Share
−Removed: proceeds after expiration of the lock-up agreement on August 9, 2020.
+Added: proceeds after expiration of the lock-up agreement on August 9, 2020, presuming that as of such date AESE has repaid or converted
+Added: amounts it owes pursuant to the bridge financing Note Purchase Agreement and Notes dated as of October 11, 2018 and May 17, 2019.
Note 2 –
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and Significant Accounting Policies
−Removed: The interim condensed consolidated financial
−Removed: statements included herein, presented in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles and stated in US
−Removed: dollars, have been prepared by the Company, without audit, pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange
−Removed: Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with
−Removed: generally accepted accounting principles have been condensed or omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations, although the Company
−Removed: believes that the disclosures are adequate to not make the information presented misleading.
+Added: The interim condensed financial statements
+Added: included herein, presented in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles and stated in US dollars,
+Added: have been prepared by the Company, without audit, pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
+Added: Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted
+Added: accounting principles have been condensed or omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations, although the Company believes that
+Added: the disclosures are adequate to not make the information presented misleading.
These statements reflect all adjustments,
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be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2019, which were included
−Removed: in our Annual Report on Form 10-K.
+Added: in our Annual Report on Form 10-K/A.
The Company follows the same accounting policies in the preparation of interim reports.
BLACK RIDGE OIL & GAS, INC.
−Removed: to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: Principles of Consolidation
−Removed: The accompanying consolidated financial
−Removed: statements include the accounts of the following entities:
−Removed: Name of entity
−Removed: Incorporation
−Removed: Black Ridge Oil and Gas, Inc.
−Removed: Black Ridge Acquisition Corp.
−Removed: Subsidiary (1)
−Removed: (1) Wholly-owned subsidiary through
−Removed: October 10, 2017, the date of BRAC’s IPO, after which it was consolidated as a variable interest entity through August 9,
−Removed: 2019, the date of BRAC’s business combination.
−Removed: BRAC was renamed Allied Esports Entertainment, Inc.
−Removed: (‘AESE”) on
−Removed: the date of its business combination and all references to the surviving entity following the business combination are hereafter
−Removed: referred to as such.
−Removed: The Company had determined that AESE, following
−Removed: its IPO, was a variable interest entity (“VIE”) and that the Company was the primary beneficiary of the VIE.
−Removed: determined that, due to the redemption feature associated with the IPO shares, that the IPO shareholders were indirectly protected
−Removed: from the operating expenses of BRAC and it had the power to direct the activities of BRAC through the date BRAC afforded the stockholders
−Removed: the opportunity to vote to approve the proposed business combination.
−Removed: Therefore, BRAC’s operations are included in the BROG’s
−Removed: consolidated financial statements herein through August 9 2019.
−Removed: BRAC’s IPO shareholders are reflected in our Consolidated
−Removed: Financial Statements as a non-controlling interest through BRAC’s business combination on August 9, 2019.
−Removed: Under guidance
−Removed: in ASC 810-10-05-8 (“Consolidation of VIEs”) the Company’s management has determined that BRAC, following its
−Removed: merger, should no longer be consolidated for financial statement purposes as the Company no longer had the power to direct the
−Removed: activities of BRAC.
−Removed: Following BRAC’s business combination, the Company’s investment in AESE is accounted for using
−Removed: the cost method as AESE no longer was considered a VIE and the Company now owned 12.4% of the outstanding common stock of AESE.
−Removed: All significant inter-company transactions have been eliminated in the preparation of these financial statements.
−Removed: The parent company, BROG, and BRAC, for
−Removed: the period it was consolidated, are collectively referred to herein as the “Company”
−Removed: or “Black Ridge”.
−Removed: The Company’s headquarters is in Minneapolis, Minnesota and substantially all of its operations are in the United States.
+Added: Condensed Financial Statements
Reclassifications
−Removed: In the current year, the income, expense
−Removed: and cash flows from BRAC during the period they were consolidated have been classified as discontinued operations.
−Removed: For comparative
−Removed: purposes amounts in the prior periods have been reclassified to conform to current year presentation.
−Removed: Additionally, the assets
−Removed: and liabilities from BRAC are shown on the balance sheet as assets and liabilities for discontinued operations.
+Added: In the prior year, the income, expense
+Added: and cash flows from Black Ridge Acquisition Corp.
+Added: (“BRAC”), a wholly-owned subsidiary formed on October 10, 2017, which
+Added: was consolidated as a variable interest entity through August 9, 2019, the date that BRAC completed a business combination with
+Added: Allied Esports Entertainment, Inc.
+Added: (“AESE”), were consolidated and have been retrospectively classified as discontinued
Use of Estimates
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of assets in the oil and gas industry.
−Removed: The oil and gas industry is subject, by its nature, to environmental hazards and clean-up
+Added: Oil and gas companies are subject, by their nature, to environmental hazard and clean-up
At this time, management knows of no substantial losses from environmental accidents or events which would have a material
effect on the Company.
−Removed: Cash and Cash Equivalents
−Removed: Cash equivalents include money market accounts
−Removed: which have maturities of three months or less.
−Removed: For the purpose of the statements of cash flows, all highly liquid investments with
−Removed: an original maturity of three months or less are considered to be cash equivalents.
−Removed: Cash equivalents are stated at cost plus accrued
−Removed: interest, which approximates market value.
−Removed: Cash equivalents on hand at September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018
−Removed: were $-0- and $2,312, respectively.
−Removed: BLACK RIDGE OIL & GAS, INC.
−Removed: to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: Restricted Cash and Securities held
−Removed: in Trust Account
−Removed: The Company had $2,312 of cash equivalents
−Removed: and $141,304,995 of marketable securities on December 31, 2018 held in the Trust Account which was restricted for the benefit of
−Removed: the AESE’s IPO shareholders to be available for those shareholders in the event they elected to redeem their shares following
−Removed: an approved business combination.
Cash in Excess of FDIC Limits
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Corporation (FDIC) and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) up to $250,000 and $500,000, respectively, under current
−Removed: The Company had approximately $-0- and $1,119,770 in excess of FDIC and SIPC insured limits at September 30, 2019
−Removed: and December 31, 2018, respectively.
+Added: The Company didn’t have any cash in excess of FDIC and SIPC insured limits at March 31, 2020 and December 31,
The Company has not experienced any losses in such accounts.
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Basic and Diluted Loss Per Share
−Removed: The basic net loss per share is computed
−Removed: by dividing the net loss (the numerator) by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding for the period (the denominator).
−Removed: Diluted net loss per common share is computed by dividing the net loss by the weighted average number of common shares and potential
−Removed: common shares outstanding (if dilutive) during each period.
−Removed: Potential common shares include stock options, warrants and restricted
−Removed: The number of potential common shares outstanding relating to stock options, warrants and restricted stock is computed using
−Removed: the treasury stock method.
−Removed: The reconciliation of the denominators
−Removed: used to calculate basic EPS and diluted EPS for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 are as follows:
−Removed: Three Months Ended
−Removed: Nine Months Ended
−Removed: September 30,
−Removed: September 30,
−Removed: Weighted average common shares outstanding –
−Removed: Potentially dilutive common shares:
−Removed: Stock options and warrants
−Removed: Weighted average common shares outstanding –
−Removed: Stock options and warrants excluded from
−Removed: the calculation of diluted EPS because their effect was anti-dilutive were 10,646,500 and 10,835,300 for the three months ended
−Removed: September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively, and 10,646,500 and 10,835,300 for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018,
−Removed: respectively.
+Added: The basic net loss per common share is
+Added: computed by dividing the net loss by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding.
+Added: Diluted net loss per common share
+Added: is computed by dividing the net loss adjusted on an “as if converted”
+Added: basis, by the weighted average number of common
+Added: shares outstanding plus potential dilutive securities.
+Added: For the periods presented, potential dilutive securities had an anti-dilutive
+Added: effect and were not included in the calculation of diluted net loss per common share.
Fair Value of Financial Instruments
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BLACK RIDGE OIL & GAS, INC.
−Removed: to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: Condensed Financial Statements
Property and Equipment
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not be recoverable.
−Removed: Depreciation expense was $754 and $7,650 for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
+Added: Depreciation expense was $271 and $443 for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
Revenue Recognition
−Removed: The Company recognizes management fee income
−Removed: as services are provided.
−Removed: The Company adopted FASB guidance on stock-based
−Removed: compensation upon inception at April 9, 2010.
−Removed: Under FASB ASC 718-10-30-2, all share-based payments to employees, including grants
−Removed: of employee stock options, are recognized in the income statement based on their fair values.
−Removed: Expense related to common stock and
−Removed: stock options issued for services and compensation totaled $83,705 and $244,664 for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and
−Removed: 2018, respectively, using the Black-Scholes options pricing model and an effective term of 6 to 6.5 years based on the weighted
−Removed: average of the vesting periods and the stated term of the option grants and the discount rate on 5 to 7 year U.S.
−Removed: Treasury securities
−Removed: at the grant date.
+Added: The Company recognized management fee income
+Added: as services were provided.
+Added: The Company accounts for equity instruments
+Added: issued to employees in accordance with the provisions of ASC 718 Stock Compensation (ASC 718) and Equity-Based Payments to Non-employees
+Added: pursuant to ASC 2018-07 (ASC 2018-07).
+Added: All transactions in which the consideration provided in exchange for the purchase of goods
+Added: or services consists of the issuance of equity instruments are accounted for based on the fair value of the consideration received
+Added: or the fair value of the equity instrument issued, whichever is more reliably measurable.
+Added: The measurement date of the fair value
+Added: of the equity instrument issued is the earlier of the date on which the counterparty’s performance is complete or the date
+Added: at which a commitment for performance by the counterparty to earn the equity instruments is reached because of sufficiently large
+Added: disincentives for nonperformance.
+Added: Stock-based compensation was $21,489 and $27,931 consisting entirely of expenses related to common
+Added: stock options issued for services of $21,489 and $27,931 for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively, using
+Added: the Black-Scholes options pricing model and an effective term of 6 to 6.5 years based on the weighted average of the vesting periods
+Added: and the stated term of the option grants and the discount rate on 5 to 7 year U.S.
+Added: Treasury securities at the grant date.
+Added: $13,795 of expenses related to the amortization of warrants issued in consideration of personal guarantees provided for debt financing
+Added: for the three months ended March 31, 2020, using the Black-Scholes options pricing model and an effective term of 5 years based
+Added: on the weighted average of the vesting periods and the stated term of the warrant grants and the discount rate on 5 year U.S.
+Added: securities at the grant date were recognized as interest expense for the three months ended March 31, 2020.
Uncertain Tax Positions
−Removed: Effective upon inception at April 9, 2010,
−Removed: the Company adopted standards for accounting for uncertainty in income taxes.
−Removed: These standards prescribe a recognition threshold
−Removed: and measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to be taken
−Removed: in a tax return.
−Removed: These standards also provide guidance on de-recognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in
−Removed: interim periods, disclosure, and transition.
+Added: In accordance with ASC 740, “Income
+Added: (“ASC 740”), the Company recognizes the tax benefit from an uncertain tax position only if it is more
+Added: likely than not that the tax position will be capable of withstanding examination by the taxing authorities based on the technical
+Added: merits of the position.
+Added: These standards prescribe a recognition threshold and measurement attribute for the financial statement
+Added: recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return.
+Added: These standards also provide guidance
+Added: on de-recognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in interim periods, disclosure, and transition.
Various taxing authorities may periodically
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position relies on the judgment of management to estimate the exposures associated with the Company’s various filing positions.
−Removed: Recent Accounting Pronouncements
−Removed: New accounting pronouncements are issued
−Removed: by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) that are adopted by the Company as of the specified effective
−Removed: If not discussed below, management believes there have been no developments to recently issued accounting standards, including
−Removed: expected dates of adoption and estimated effects on our financial statements, from those disclosed in our Annual Report on Form
−Removed: 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018.
−Removed: In July 2018,
−Removed: the FASB issued ASU No.
−Removed: 2018-10, Codification Improvements to Topic 842, Leases .
−Removed: The amendments in ASU 2018-10 provide
−Removed: additional clarification and implementation guidance on certain aspects of the previously issued ASU No.
−Removed: 2016-02, Leases (Topic
−Removed: 842) (“ASU 2016-02”) and have the same effective and transition requirements as ASU 2016-02.
−Removed: Upon the effective date,
−Removed: ASU 2018-10 will supersede the current lease guidance in ASC Topic 840, Leases.
−Removed: Under the new guidance, lessees will be required
−Removed: to recognize for all leases, with the exception of short-term leases, a lease liability, which is a lessee’s obligation to
−Removed: make lease payments arising from a lease, measured on a discounted basis.
−Removed: Concurrently, lessees will be required to recognize a
−Removed: right-of-use asset, which is an asset that represents the lessee’s right to use, or control the use of, a specified asset
−Removed: for the lease term.
−Removed: ASU 2018-10 is effective for private companies and emerging growth public companies for interim and annual
−Removed: reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2019, with early adoption permitted.
−Removed: The guidance is required to be applied using
−Removed: a modified retrospective transition approach for leases existing at, or entered into after, the beginning of the earliest comparative
−Removed: periods presented in the financial statements.
−Removed: The Company adopted this guidance effective January 1, 2019, and the standard did
−Removed: not have a material impact on the Company’s combined financial statements and related disclosures.
BLACK RIDGE OIL & GAS, INC.
−Removed: to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: Condensed Financial Statements
+Added: Recent Accounting Pronouncements
+Added: From time to time, new accounting pronouncements
+Added: are issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) that are adopted by the Company as of the specified
+Added: effective date.
+Added: If not discussed below, management believes there have been no developments to recently issued accounting standards,
+Added: including expected dates of adoption and estimated effects on our financial statements, from those disclosed in our Annual Report
+Added: on Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2019.
+Added: In July 2018, the FASB issued ASU No.
+Added: 2018-10, Codification
+Added: Improvements to Topic 842, Leases .
+Added: The amendments in ASU 2018-10 provide additional clarification and implementation guidance
+Added: on certain aspects of the previously issued ASU No.
+Added: 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842) (“ASU 2016-02”) and have the same effective
+Added: and transition requirements as ASU 2016-02.
+Added: Upon the effective date, ASU 2018-10 will supersede the current lease guidance in ASC
+Added: Topic 840, Leases.
+Added: Under the new guidance, lessees will be required to recognize for all leases, with the exception of short-term
+Added: leases, a lease liability, which is a lessee’s obligation to make lease payments arising from a lease, measured on a discounted
+Added: Concurrently, lessees will be required to recognize a right-of-use asset, which is an asset that represents the lessee’s
+Added: right to use, or control the use of, a specified asset for the lease term.
+Added: ASU 2018-10 is effective for private companies and emerging
+Added: growth public companies for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2019, with early adoption permitted.
+Added: The guidance is required to be applied using a modified retrospective transition approach for leases existing at, or entered into
+Added: after, the beginning of the earliest comparative periods presented in the financial statements.
+Added: The Company adopted this guidance
+Added: effective January 1, 2019, and the standard did not have a material impact on the Company’s combined financial statements
+Added: and related disclosures.
Note 3 –
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As shown in the accompanying financial
−Removed: statements, as of September 30, 2019, the Company had a cash balance of $64,613 and total working capital of negative $2,620,633.
−Removed: The Company’s management consulting agreement with AESE calls for management fees of $313,316 from October 1, 2019 through
−Removed: December 31, 2019 and does not continue into 2020.
−Removed: Based on projections of cash expenditures in the Company’s current business
−Removed: plan, the cash on hand would be insufficient to fund the Company’s general and administrative expenses over the next year.
−Removed: The Company continues to pursue sources
−Removed: of additional capital through various management fee agreements and financing transactions or arrangements, including joint venturing
−Removed: of projects, equity financing, debt financing or other means.
−Removed: We may not be successful in identifying suitable funding transactions
−Removed: in a sufficient time period or at all, and we may not obtain the capital we require by other means.
−Removed: If we do not succeed in raising
−Removed: additional capital, our resources may not be sufficient to fund our business.
+Added: statements, as of March 31, 2020, the Company had a cash balance of $52,097, and total working capital of negative $882,749.
+Added: Company has incurred recurring losses from operations resulting in an accumulated deficit of $34,002,978, and as of March 31, 2020,
+Added: the Company’s cash on hand may not be sufficient to sustain operations.
+Added: These factors raise substantial doubt about the Company’s
+Added: ability to continue as a going concern.
+Added: The Company is currently seeking additional sources of capital to fund short term operations.
+Added: The Company, however, is dependent upon its ability to secure equity and/or debt financing and there are no assurances that the
+Added: Company will be successful;
+Added: therefore, without sufficient financing it would be unlikely for the Company to continue as a going
The financial statements do not include
any adjustments that might result from the outcome of any uncertainty as to the Company’s ability to continue as a going
−Removed: These financial statements also do not include any adjustments relating to the recoverability and classification of recorded
+Added: The financial statements also do not include any adjustments relating to the recoverability and classification of recorded
asset amounts, or amounts and classifications of liabilities that might be necessary should the Company be unable to continue as
a going concern.
−Removed: Note 4 –
−Removed: Rights Offering and Formation
−Removed: of Black Ridge Acquisition Corp.
−Removed: The Company filed a Registration Statement
−Removed: on Form S-1 (the “Registration Statement”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) to register
−Removed: the issuance of 431,819,910 shares of common stock in the Rights Offering that was declared effective by the SEC on August 3, 2017.
−Removed: Pursuant to the Rights Offering, the Company distributed, on a pro rata basis, one right for each share of common stock owned by
−Removed: shareholders on August 2, 2017 (the “Record Date”).
−Removed: Each right permitted a shareholder to purchase up to nine shares
−Removed: of common stock at a subscription price of $0.012 per share.
−Removed: The Rights Offering expired on September 8, 2017 (the “Expiration
−Removed: Date”).
−Removed: In connection with the Rights Offering,
−Removed: the Company also entered into a Standby Purchase Agreement (the “Backstop Agreement”) with a consortium of investors,
−Removed: including members of the Company’s board of directors and our Chief Executive Officer (collectively, the “Backstop
−Removed: Purchasers”), who agree to purchase up to $2.9 million of the unsubscribed shares following the completion of the rights
−Removed: On September 26, 2017, the Company completed
−Removed: the Rights Offering, raising gross proceeds of $5,181,839 and issued 431,819,910 shares in connection with the exercise of rights
−Removed: in connection with the Rights Offering and related Backstop Agreement.
−Removed: Under the Rights Offering the Company’s current shareholders
−Removed: exercised rights to purchase 199,811,421 shares of stock for a total of $2,397,737.
−Removed: Under the Backstop Agreement, the Backstop
−Removed: Purchasers purchased 232,008,489 shares of stock for a total of $2,784,102.
−Removed: Additionally, as part of the Backstop agreement, the
−Removed: Company issued 435,000 warrants to purchase its common stock at $0.01 to participants in the Backstop Agreement.
−Removed: The warrants fair
−Removed: value was estimated to be $10,135.
−Removed: Officers and directors of the Company purchased 173,843,308 shares between the Rights Offering
−Removed: and as participants of the Backstop Agreement for $2,086,120 and received 179,376 warrants to purchase shares of common stock at
−Removed: $0.01 per share for their participation in the Backstop Agreement.
−Removed: The remaining 257,976,602 shares were purchased by non-related
−Removed: parties for proceeds of $2,965,555.
−Removed: The fair value of warrants issued to related parties was estimated to be $4,179.
−Removed: incurred $130,164 in costs associated with raising capital, which has been netted against stockholders’
−Removed: On October 10, 2017 and October 18, 2017,
−Removed: in connection with the underwriter exercising its over-allotment option, the Company used $4,450,000 of the net proceeds of the
−Removed: Rights Offering to fulfill its obligation as sponsor of BRAC, as part of BRAC’s IPO.
−Removed: BRAC was formed on May 9, 2017 with
−Removed: the purpose of becoming the special acquisition company as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company with an initial equity contribution
−Removed: After the IPO, the Company retained ownership of 22% of BRAC’s common stock.
−Removed: The remaining proceeds from the
−Removed: Rights Offering following the sponsorship are being used for general corporate purposes.
BLACK RIDGE OIL & GAS, INC.
−Removed: to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: Note 5 –
−Removed: BRAC’s IPO, BRAC’s
−Removed: Merger, Consolidation of BRAC and Non-controlling Interest
−Removed: BRAC’s IPO
−Removed: The registration statement for the BRAC’s
−Removed: IPO was declared effective on October 4, 2017.
−Removed: The registration statement was initially declared effective for 10,000,000 units
−Removed: (“Units”
−Removed: and, with respect to the common stock included in the Units being offered, the “Public Shares”),
−Removed: but the offering was increased to 12,000,000 Units pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
−Removed: 10, 2017, BRAC consummated the IPO of 12,000,000 units, generating gross proceeds of $120,000,000.
−Removed: Simultaneous with the closing of the IPO,
−Removed: BRAC sold 400,000 units (the “Placement Units”) at a price of $10.00 per Unit in a private placement to BROG, generating
−Removed: gross proceeds of $4,000,000.
−Removed: BROG’s investment in BRAC’s common stock is eliminated in consolidation prior to the
−Removed: BRAC’s merger on August 9, 2019.
−Removed: Transaction costs relating to the IPO amounted
−Removed: to $2,882,226, consisting of $2,400,000 of underwriting fees and $482,226 of other costs.
−Removed: Following the closing of the IPO on October
−Removed: 10, 2017, an amount of $120,600,000 ($10.05 per Unit) from the net proceeds of the sale of the Units in the IPO and the Placement
−Removed: Units was placed in a trust account (“Trust Account”) and invested in U.S.
−Removed: government securities, within the meaning
−Removed: set forth in Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”), with
−Removed: a maturity of 180 days or less or in any open-ended investment company that holds itself out as a money market fund selected by
−Removed: BRAC meeting the conditions of paragraphs (d)(2), (d)(3) and (d)(4) of Rule 2a-7 of the Investment Company Act, as determined by
−Removed: BRAC, until the earlier of:
−Removed: (i) the consummation of a Business Combination or (ii) the distribution of the Trust Account, as described
−Removed: On October 18, 2017, in connection with
−Removed: the underwriters’
−Removed: exercise of their over-allotment option in full, BRAC sold an additional 1,800,000 Units and sold an additional
−Removed: 45,000 Placement Units to BROG at $10.00 per Unit, generating total proceeds of $18,450,000.
−Removed: Transaction costs for underwriting
−Removed: fees on the sale of the over-allotment units were $360,000.
−Removed: Following the closing, an additional $18,090,000 of the net proceeds
−Removed: ($10.05 per Unit) was placed in the Trust Account, bringing the total aggregate proceeds held in the Trust Account to $138,690,000
−Removed: ($10.05 per Unit).
−Removed: BROG’s investment in BRAC’s common stock is eliminated in consolidation prior to the BRAC’s
−Removed: merger on August 9, 2019.
−Removed: Upon the closing of the IPO, $10.05 per
−Removed: Unit sold in the IPO, including some of the proceeds of the Private Placements was deposited in a trust account (“Trust Account”)
−Removed: to be held until the earlier of (i) the consummation of its initial Business Combination or (ii) BRAC’s failure to consummate
−Removed: a Business Combination within 21 months from the consummation of the IPO (the “Combination Period”).
−Removed: The Extension Meeting
−Removed: On July 9, 2019, BRAC held a
−Removed: special meeting of its stockholders (the “Meeting”).
−Removed: At the Meeting, BRAC’s stockholders considered a proposal
−Removed: to adopt and approve an amendment to BRAC’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation (the “Charter”)
−Removed: to extend the date that BRAC had to consummate a business combination (the “Extension”) to August 10, 2019.
−Removed: The amendment
−Removed: was approved by the stockholders and filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on July 9, 2019.
−Removed: In connection with this vote,
−Removed: the holders of 9,246,727 shares of BRAC’s common stock properly exercised their right to convert their shares into cash at
−Removed: a conversion price of approximately $10.29 per share resulting in $95,125,574 in Trust Account assets being distributed back to
−Removed: shareholders.
−Removed: In connection with the Extension, BROG loaned $30,000 to BRAC to be placed in the Trust Account for the benefit of
−Removed: the public shares that were not converted.
−Removed: The loan was non-interest bearing and evidenced by a promissory note issued by BRAC
−Removed: on the same date.
−Removed: The loan was repaid on August 12, 2019.
−Removed: BLACK RIDGE OIL & GAS, INC.
−Removed: to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: Business Combination Agreement
−Removed: On December 19, 2018, BRAC entered into
−Removed: the Business Combination Agreement with Merger Sub, Allied Esports, Ourgame, Noble and Primo.
−Removed: The Business Combination Agreement
−Removed: was amended on August 5, 2019 and the Business Combination Agreement as amended is referred to as the Amended Business Combination
−Removed: The merger closed on August 9, 2019.
−Removed: Subject to the Amended Business Combination
−Removed: Agreement, (i) Noble merged with and into Allied Esports (the “Redomestication Merger”) with Allied Esports being the
−Removed: surviving entity in such merger and (ii) immediately after the Redomestication Merger, Merger Sub merged with into Allied Esports
−Removed: with Allied Esports being the surviving entity of such merger (the “Transaction Merger”
−Removed: and together with the Redomestication
−Removed: Merger, the “Mergers”).
−Removed: The Mergers resulted in BRAC acquiring
−Removed: two of Ourgame’s global esports and entertainment assets, Allied Esports and WPT.
−Removed: Allied Esports is a premier esports entertainment
−Removed: company with a global network of dedicated esports properties and content production facilities.
−Removed: WPT is the creator of the World
−Removed: Poker Tour®
−Removed: (WPT®) –
−Removed: the premier name in internationally televised gaming and entertainment with brand presence in
−Removed: land-based tournaments, television, online and mobile.
−Removed: The transactions strategically combined the globally recognized Allied Esports
−Removed: brand with the three-pronged business model of the iconic World Poker Tour, featuring in-person experiences, multiplatform content
−Removed: and interactive services, to leverage the high-growth opportunities in the global esports industry.
−Removed: Upon consummation of the Mergers (the “Closing”),
−Removed: BRAC issued to the former owners of Allied Esports and WPT (i) an aggregate of 11,602,754 shares of common stock, par value $0.0001
−Removed: per share, of BRAC common stock and (ii) an aggregate of 3,800,003 warrants to purchase shares of common stock of the BRAC.
−Removed: In addition to the consideration described
−Removed: above, the former owners of Allied Esports and WPT will receive their pro rata portion of an aggregate of an additional 3,846,153
−Removed: shares of the BRAC’s common stock if the last sales price of BRAC’s common stock equals or exceeds $13.00 per share
−Removed: (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations and recapitalizations) for thirty (30) consecutive days at any
−Removed: time during the five (5) year period commencing on the date of the Closing (the “Closing Date”).
−Removed: The Business Combination Agreement, which
−Removed: original called for a debt repayment to Ourgame of $35,000,000 was amended to call for BRAC to (i) assume $10,000,000 of the debt
−Removed: obligations of Ourgame and Noble (including an additional $1,200,000 of accrued interest) and (ii) repay Ourgame the remaining
−Removed: balance of $23,800,000 by paying $3,500,000 in cash to Ourgame and its designees, issuing to Ourgame and its designees 2,928,679
−Removed: shares of BRAC’s common stock and Ourgame retaining $1,000,000 of the proceeds of such loans to pay its transaction expenses
−Removed: incurred in the Merger.
−Removed: In connection with entering into the Amendment, BROG, as BRAC’s founder, agreed to transfer an aggregate
−Removed: of 600,000 shares of BRAC’s common stock held by it to Ourgame.
−Removed: Additionally, In July and August 2019,
−Removed: BRAC and BROG entered into several share purchase agreements (the “Purchase Agreements”) with several parties (collectively
−Removed: referred to as the “Purchasers”).
−Removed: Pursuant to the Purchase Agreements, the Purchasers agreed to purchase an aggregate
−Removed: of $18,000,000 of shares of BRAC’s common stock in open market or privately negotiated transactions.
−Removed: If the Purchasers were
−Removed: unable to purchase the full $18,000,000 of shares of common stock in open market or privately negotiated transactions, BRAC will
−Removed: issue to the Purchasers newly issued shares at the Closing at a per-share price equal to the per-share amount held in BRAC’s
−Removed: trust account ($10.30 per share), and having an aggregate value equal to the difference between $18,000,000 and the dollar amount
−Removed: of shares purchased by them in the open market or in privately negotiated transactions.
−Removed: At the Closing, BRAC agreed to issue to
−Removed: the Purchasers 1.5 shares of common stock for every 10 shares purchased by them under the Purchase Agreements.
−Removed: Additionally, BROG
−Removed: agreed to transfer an aggregate of 720,000 shares held by it of BRAC common stock to the Purchasers.
−Removed: Pursuant to the Purchase Agreements,
−Removed: BRAC is required to file a registration statement with the SEC as promptly as practicable following the closing of the merger to
−Removed: register the resale of any securities purchased by the Purchasers that are not already registered and cause such registration statement
−Removed: to become effective as soon as possible.
−Removed: The Purchasers included a $3 million investment from Lyle Berman, a member of the
−Removed: board of directors of both BRAC and BROG and the largest shareholder of BROG.
−Removed: Additionally, $5 million will be held in an
−Removed: escrow account and its usage will be limited to specific capital projects.
−Removed: Consummation of the transactions contemplated
−Removed: by the Amended Business Combination Agreement was subject to certain closing conditions including, among others, (i) approval by
−Removed: the stockholders of BRAC, and (ii) that BRAC have available cash in an amount not less than $22,000,000 after payment to stockholders
−Removed: who elect to redeem their shares of common stock in accordance with the provisions of BRAC’s charter documents.
−Removed: condition was waived by Ourgame prior to the close.
−Removed: BLACK RIDGE OIL & GAS, INC.
−Removed: to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: Consolidation of BRAC and Non-controlling
−Removed: The Company determined that BRAC, following
−Removed: its IPO, was a VIE and that the Company is the primary beneficiary of the VIE.
−Removed: The Company determined that, due to the redemption
−Removed: feature associated with the IPO shares, that the IPO shareholders are indirectly protected from the operating expenses of BRAC
−Removed: and BROG had the power to direct the activities of BRAC through the date at which BRAC affords the stockholders the opportunity
−Removed: to vote to approve a proposed business combination.
−Removed: Therefore, the consolidated financial statements contain the operations of
−Removed: the BRAC from its inception on May 9, 2017 through the date of the merger, when BRAC was determined to no longer be a VIE.
−Removed: IPO shareholders are reflected in our Consolidated Financial Statements as a redeemable non-controlling interest prior to the merger.
−Removed: The non-controlling interest was recorded at fair value on October 10, 2017, with an addition on October 18, 2017 as a result of
−Removed: the underwriters’
−Removed: exercise of their over-allotment option.
−Removed: During the period in which BRAC was consolidated, the net earnings
−Removed: attributable to the IPO shareholders are subtracted from the net gain (loss) for any period to arrive at the net loss attributable
−Removed: to the Company and the non-controlling interest on the balance sheet is adjusted to include the net earnings attributable to the
−Removed: IPO shareholders.
−Removed: Deconsolidation of BRAC
−Removed: Additionally, US GAAP (ASC 810-10-40) provides
−Removed: guidance on “Derecognition”
−Removed: of a previously consolidated entity or entities.
−Removed: Under this guidance, the Company shall
−Removed: account for the deconsolidation of a subsidiary or derecognition of a group of assets specified in ASC 810-10-40-3A by recognizing
−Removed: a gain or loss in net income attributable to the parent, measured as the difference between the combination of:
−Removed: a) The fair value of:
−Removed: any consideration received.
−Removed: In this case, the Company received no consideration.
−Removed: any retained non-controlling investment in the former subsidiary or group of assets at the date the subsidiary is deconsolidated,
−Removed: or the group of assets is derecognized.
−Removed: In this case the fair value of the BRAC common stock at the close of the business combination
−Removed: was $11,950,475;
−Removed: b) The carrying amount of the former
−Removed: subsidiaries assets and liabilities or the carrying amount of the group of assets.
−Removed: With the above guidance the Company determined
−Removed: that the effect of the deconsolidation of BRAC produced a gain of $26,322,687, which is a non-cash adjustment.
−Removed: Intercompany transactions and eliminations
−Removed: BROG was paid a management fee by AESE
−Removed: of $10,000 per month as part of an administrative services agreement, which commenced October 5, 2017 and ended on the date of
−Removed: the merger, for general and administrative services including the cost of office space and personnel dedicated to AESE.
−Removed: also reimbursed for any out-of-pocket expenses, particularly travel, incurred in connection with activities on AESE’s behalf,
−Removed: including but not limited to identifying potential target businesses and performing due diligence on suitable business combinations.
−Removed: AESE paid a total of $72,903 to BROG for such services for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 while AESE remained a VIE and
−Removed: was consolidated.
−Removed: The management services income of BROG and the management services expense of AESE as well as any balances due
−Removed: between the companies for such services or reimbursements were eliminated in consolidation.
−Removed: Management fees earned by BROG of $153,279
−Removed: subject to the management services agreement between AESE and BROG in effect subsequent to the merger are not eliminated.
−Removed: BLACK RIDGE OIL & GAS, INC.
−Removed: to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: Note 6 –
−Removed: Prepaid Expenses
−Removed: Prepaid expenses consist of the following:
−Removed: September 30,
−Removed: Prepaid insurance costs
−Removed: Prepaid employee benefits
−Removed: Prepaid office and other costs
−Removed: Total prepaid expenses
−Removed: Note 7 –
−Removed: Property and Equipment
−Removed: Property and equipment at September 30, 2019 and December 31,
−Removed: 2018, consisted of the following:
−Removed: September 30,
−Removed: Property and equipment
−Removed: Accumulated depreciation and amortization
−Removed: Total property and equipment, net
−Removed: The Company recognized depreciation expense of $754 and $7,650
−Removed: for the nine month periods ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
−Removed: Note 8 –
−Removed: Investment in Allied
−Removed: Esports Entertainment, Inc.
−Removed: Following the close of
−Removed: BRAC’s merger, the Company retained 2,685,500 shares of AESE common stock with a value, based on the closing stock of
−Removed: $4.45 on the merger, of $11,950,475.
−Removed: As noted below, in Note 9 - Related Party Transactions, 20% or 537,100, of the shares
−Removed: are committed to be released to employees one year from the date of the merger, or on August 9, 2020.
−Removed: Therefore, the Company
−Removed: recorded compensation expense and recorded a deferred compensation liability of $2,309,095 to recognize the commitment to
−Removed: To facilitate the BRAC merger the Company transferred 1,320,000 shares to the former owners of Allied Esports and
−Removed: WPT and other investors, recognizing an expense of $5,874,000.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2019, the market value
−Removed: of the Company’s investment in AESE’s common stock was $14,045,165, based on the closing stock price of $5.23 per share.
−Removed: Thus, we recorded an unrealized gain of $2,094,690, as part of other comprehensive income, and adjusted the compensation expense
−Removed: and deferred compensation expense to $2,809,033 to reflect the change in the market value of the stock committed to employees and
−Removed: The balance in deferred compensation will be adjusted quarterly to reflect changes in the market value of the AESE common
−Removed: stock committed to them.
+Added: Condensed Financial Statements
Note 4 –
−Removed: Related Party Transactions
+Added: Related Party
On March 1, 2018, the Board of Directors
−Removed: (the “Board”) of the Company approved and adopted the Black Ridge Oil & Gas, Inc.
−Removed: 2018 Management Incentive Plan
−Removed: (the “Plan”) and the form of 2018 Management Incentive Plan Award Agreement (the “Award Agreement”).
+Added: (the “Board”) of the Company approved and adopted the Black Ridge Gas, Inc.
+Added: 2018 Management Incentive Plan (the “Plan”)
+Added: and the form of 2018 Management Incentive Plan Award Agreement (the “Award Agreement”).
In connection with the approval of the
Plan and Award Agreement, the Board approved the issuance of awards (the “Awards”) to certain individuals including
−Removed: officers and directors (the “Grantees”), representing 20% of the shares of AESE held by the Company as of the date
−Removed: of closing of a business combination for the acquisition of a target business as described in the AESE prospectus dated October
−Removed: 4, 2017, as follows:
−Removed: Percentage of AESE Shares Owned by the
−Removed: Company to be Granted to the Grantee
+Added: officers and directors (the “Grantees”), representing a percentage of the shares of BRAC held by the Company as of
+Added: the date of closing of a business combination for the acquisition of a target business as described in the BRAC prospectus dated
+Added: October 4, 2017, as follows:
+Added: Percentage of BRAC Shares Owned by the
+Added: Company Granted to the Grantee
Bradley Berman
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Michael Eisele
−Removed: BLACK RIDGE OIL & GAS, INC.
−Removed: to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: As of September 30, 2019, and following
−Removed: the AESE merger on August 9, 2019, the Company owned 2,685,500 shares of AESE common stock.
−Removed: As a result, 537,100 shares of AESE
−Removed: common stock (the “AESE Shares”) are committed to employees and directors of the Company.
−Removed: Employees and directors are
−Removed: required to remain in their positions for a one-year period, with certain exceptions, to receive the granted shares.
−Removed: The AESE Shares
−Removed: had a fair market value of $2,809,033 on September 30, 2019.
−Removed: The Company is recognizing the full expense related to the Plan immediately
−Removed: upon the AESE merger date.
−Removed: Compensation expense of $2,309,095 was recognized upon merger and was adjusted on September 30, 2019
−Removed: to $2,809,033 due to changes in the AESE market price between the August 9, 2019 merger and September 30, 2019.
−Removed: Subsequent adjustments
−Removed: will be required each quarter to adjust the deferred compensation liability until the shares can be transferred to the employees.
−Removed: Shares Transferred to Purchasers of
−Removed: BRAC Common Stock
−Removed: As presented in Note 5, In July and
−Removed: August 2019, BRAC and BROG entered into several share purchase agreements (the “Purchase Agreements”) with
−Removed: several parties (collectively referred to as the “Purchasers”).
−Removed: Pursuant to the Purchase Agreements, the
−Removed: Purchasers agreed to purchase an aggregate of $18,000,000 of shares of BRAC’s common stock in open market or privately
−Removed: negotiated transactions.
−Removed: If the Purchasers were unable to purchase the full $18,000,000 of shares of common stock in open
−Removed: market or privately negotiated transactions, BRAC will issue to the Purchasers newly issued shares at the Closing at a
−Removed: per-share price equal to the per-share amount held in BRAC’s trust account ($10.30 per share), and having an aggregate
−Removed: value equal to the difference between $18,000,000 and the dollar amount of shares purchased by them in the open market or in
−Removed: privately negotiated transactions.
−Removed: At the Closing, BRAC agreed to issue to the Purchasers 1.5 shares of common stock for
−Removed: every 10 shares purchased by them under the Purchase Agreements.
−Removed: Additionally, the Company agreed to transfer an aggregate of
−Removed: 720,000 shares held by it of BRAC common stock to the Purchasers.
−Removed: The Purchasers included a $3 million investment from
−Removed: Lyle Berman, a member of the board of directors of both BRAC and BROG and the largest shareholder of BROG, and a $2 million
−Removed: investment from Morris Goldfarb, a major shareholder of the Company.
−Removed: Berman and Mr.
−Removed: Goldfarb received 43,800 and 29,127 bonus
−Removed: shares, respectively, of BRAC common stock issued by BRAC and 120,000 and 80,000 shares, respectively, of BRAC common stock
−Removed: transferred from the Company.
−Removed: BRAC Convertible Loans
−Removed: In order to finance transaction costs in
−Removed: connection with an intended initial business combination, BROG had loaned AESE an aggregate $750,000 in the form of convertible
−Removed: The notes were unsecured, non-interest bearing and payable upon the consummation by AESE of a merger, share exchange, asset
−Removed: acquisition, or other similar business combination, with one or more businesses or entities (a “Business Combination”).
−Removed: Upon consummation of a Business Combination, the principal balance of the notes could be converted, at BROG’s option, to
−Removed: units at a price of $10.00 per unit.
−Removed: The terms of the units are identical to the units issued by BRAC in its IPO, except the
−Removed: warrants included in such units could be exercised on a cashless basis, in each case so long as they continued to be held by BROG
−Removed: or its permitted transferees.
−Removed: BROG elected to convert $600,000 of the principal balance of the convertible promissory notes and
−Removed: received 60,000 units consisting of 66,000 shares of AESE common stock (after conversion of the stock rights into 6,000 shares)
−Removed: and 60,000 warrants.
−Removed: The remaining $150,000 was repaid to BROG at the date of merger.
+Added: As of March 31, 2020, and following the
+Added: AESE merger on August 9, 2019, the Company owned 2,685,500 shares of AESE common stock.
+Added: As a result, 537,100 shares of AESE common
+Added: stock (the “AESE Shares”) are committed to employees and directors of the Company.
+Added: Employees and directors are required
+Added: to remain in their positions for a one-year period, with certain exceptions, to receive the granted shares.
+Added: The AESE Shares had
+Added: a fair market value of $843,247 on March 31, 2020.
+Added: The Company recognized the $1,396,460 of compensation expense related to the
+Added: Plan during the year ended December 31, 2019.
+Added: For the three months ended March 31, 2020, the Company recognized a gain of $553,213
+Added: related to the reduction in the value of the shares to be paid to employees on August 9, 2020, which was offset against the Company’s
+Added: loss on the investment in AESE shares due to changes in the AESE market price between December 31, 2019 and March 31, 2020.
+Added: adjustments will be required each quarter to adjust the deferred compensation liability until the shares can be transferred to
+Added: the employees.
Note 5 –
−Removed: Fair Value of Financial Instruments
−Removed: The Company adopted FASB ASC 820-10 upon
−Removed: inception at April 9, 2010.
−Removed: Under FASB ASC 820-10-5, fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset
−Removed: or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date (an exit price).
−Removed: The standard outlines a valuation framework and creates a fair value hierarchy in order to increase the consistency and comparability
−Removed: of fair value measurements and the related disclosures.
−Removed: Under GAAP, certain assets and liabilities must be measured at fair value,
−Removed: and FASB ASC 820-10-50 details the disclosures that are required for items measured at fair value.
−Removed: BLACK RIDGE OIL & GAS, INC.
−Removed: to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: The Company had revolving credit facilities
−Removed: that must be measured under the new fair value standard.
−Removed: The Company’s financial assets and liabilities are measured using
−Removed: inputs from the three levels of the fair value hierarchy.
+Added: Fair Value of Financial
+Added: Under FASB ASC 820-10-5, fair value is
+Added: defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between
+Added: market participants at the measurement date (an exit price).
+Added: The standard outlines a valuation framework and creates a fair value
+Added: hierarchy in order to increase the consistency and comparability of fair value measurements and the related disclosures.
+Added: GAAP, certain assets and liabilities must be measured at fair value, and FASB ASC 820-10-50 details the disclosures that are required
+Added: for items measured at fair value.
+Added: The Company has cash and cash equivalents
+Added: and a revolving credit facility that must be measured under the fair value standard.
+Added: The Company’s financial assets and liabilities
+Added: are measured using inputs from the three levels of the fair value hierarchy.
The three levels are as follows:
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that reflect our assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability.
−Removed: The following schedule summarizes the valuation
−Removed: of financial instruments at fair value on a recurring basis in the balance sheets as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018:
−Removed: Fair Value Measurements at September 30, 2019
−Removed: Cash and cash equivalents
+Added: BLACK RIDGE OIL & GAS, INC.
+Added: Condensed Financial Statements
+Added: The following schedule summarizes the
+Added: valuation of financial instruments at fair value on a recurring basis in the balances sheet as of March 31, 2020 and December
+Added: Fair Value Measurements at March 31, 2020
Investment in Allied Esports Entertainment, Inc.
+Added: Notes payable, net of $251,205 of debt discounts at March 31, 2020
Total liabilities
Fair Value Measurements at December 31, 2019
−Removed: Cash and cash equivalents
−Removed: Restricted cash and investments held in trust
+Added: Investment in Allied Esports Entertainment, Inc.
Total liabilities
−Removed: $ 142,810,807
There were no transfers of financial assets
−Removed: or liabilities between Level 1 and Level 2 inputs for the nine months ended September 30, 2019.
+Added: or liabilities between Level 1 and Level 2 inputs for the three months ended March 31, 2020.
Note 6 –
−Removed: Stockholders’
+Added: Prepaid Expenses
+Added: Prepaid expenses consist of the following:
+Added: Prepaid insurance costs
+Added: Prepaid employee benefits
+Added: Prepaid office and other costs
+Added: Total prepaid expenses
+Added: BLACK RIDGE OIL & GAS, INC.
+Added: Condensed Financial Statements
+Added: Note 7 –
+Added: Property and Equipment
+Added: Property and equipment at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019,
+Added: consisted of the following:
+Added: Property and equipment
+Added: Accumulated depreciation and amortization
+Added: Total property and equipment, net
+Added: The Company recognized depreciation expense of $271 and $443
+Added: for the three-month periods ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
+Added: Note 8 –
+Added: Investment in Allied
+Added: Esports Entertainment, Inc.
+Added: Following the close of BRAC’s merger,
+Added: the Company retained 2,685,500 shares of Allied Esports Entertainment Inc.
+Added: AESE) common stock with a value, based on the
+Added: closing stock of $4.45 on the merger, of $11,950,475.
+Added: As noted in Note 4 - Related Party Transactions, 20% or 537,100, of the shares
+Added: are committed to be released to employees one year from the date of the merger, or on August 19, 2020.
+Added: Therefore, the Company recorded
+Added: a deferred compensation liability of $843,247 to recognize the commitment to employees as of March 31, 2020.
+Added: As of March 31, 2020, the market value
+Added: of the Company’s investment in AESE’s common stock was $4,216,235, based on the closing stock price of $1.57 per share.
+Added: Thus, we recognized a loss of $2,766,065, as offset by a gain of $553,213 pursuant to the change in the market value of the stock
+Added: committed to employees and directors, resulting in a net loss of $2,212,852 as of March 31, 2020.
+Added: The balance in deferred compensation
+Added: is also adjusted quarterly to reflect changes in the market value of the AESE common stock commitment.
+Added: On January 2, 2020, the Company deposited
+Added: 500,000 shares of its holdings of AESE pursuant to its brokerage account agreement with RBC Capital Markets, LLC.
+Added: were subsequently used as collateral the $700,000 promissory note, described below, pursuant to a commercial pledge and security
+Added: agreement, dated March 10, 2020.
+Added: On February 10, 2020, an additional 66,000 of AESE shares were deposited into this brokerage account.
+Added: Under this standard brokerage agreement, the Company will be able to borrow funds secured by the value of the AESE shares pursuant
+Added: to a standard margin account arrangement.
+Added: The current value of the deposited AESE shares is $933,900 based on a closing price of
+Added: $1.65 as of May 5, 2020.
+Added: BLACK RIDGE OIL & GAS, INC.
+Added: Condensed Financial Statements
+Added: Note 9 –
+Added: Notes Payable
+Added: Notes payable consists of the following
+Added: at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively:
+Added: On November 25, 2019, the Company entered into a credit account agreement (“Margin Account”) with RBC Capital Markets, LLC (“RBC”).
+Added: The Margin Account enables the Company to borrow against the Company’s AESE shares that are held in an account with RBC.
+Added: The advances received on margin bear interest at rates of between 1.00% and 2.75% over the Base Lending Rate, depending on the average outstanding debit balance.
+Added: The Base Lending Rate is internally determined by RBC using Broker Call, Prime Rate as determined by commercial banks utilized by RBC CM, Fed Funds, RBC CM’s cost of funds, and other commercially recognized rates of interest.
+Added: The margin loans are collateralized by the underlying AESE shares.
+Added: A total of $122,100 was borrowed on the Margin Account over various dates between January 29, 2020 and March 6, 2020.
+Added: The outstanding balance was repaid in full on, or about, March 12, 2020 out of the proceeds of the loan from Cadence Bank, described below.
+Added: On March 12, 2020, the Company entered into a business loan agreement with Cadence Bank, N.A.
+Added: (“Cadence”), as lender encompassing a $700,000 Promissory Note issued to Cadence (the “Note”), a Security Agreement by the Company in favor of Cadence and limited commercial guarantees by the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer, who is one in the same, and members of the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Guarantors”) (collectively, the “Cadence Loan”).
+Added: The Note bears interest at a rate of 0.50 percentage points over the prime rate, as published in the Wall Street Journal, payable monthly, and is due on March 9, 2021.
+Added: The Note may be repaid at any time without penalty.
+Added: The Note is secured by all of the Company’s rights, title and interests in and to 500,000 shares of the common stock of Allied Esports Entertainment Inc.
+Added: AESE) currently owned by the Company and held in the Company’s brokerage account with RBC Capital Markets, LLC.
+Added: On March 26, 2020, the Company subsequently entered into a separate letter agreement with the Guarantors (the “Letter Agreement”), which provides that if the Company defaults or fails to make any payment due under the Cadence Loan and the Guarantors are required to make payment to Cadence pursuant to the Guarantees, then the Company agrees to issue additional equity interests or rights to Guarantors reflecting ninety-five percent (95%) of the outstanding equity of the Company at the time of such default to participating Guarantors who have made the payments to Cadence.
+Added: All equity issuances will be subject to any third party or shareholder approvals required at the time of issuance.
+Added: Total notes payable
+Added: Less unamortized derivative discounts:
+Added: Notes payable
+Added: current maturities
+Added: Notes payable, less current maturities
+Added: BLACK RIDGE OIL & GAS, INC.
+Added: Condensed Financial Statements
+Added: The Company recorded total discounts of
+Added: $265,000, consisting of debt discounts on warrants granted to four officers and directors for warrants issued in consideration
+Added: of personal guarantees provided for debt financing incurred during the three months ended March 31, 2020.
+Added: The discounts are
+Added: being amortized to stock-based compensation expense over the term of the note using the straight-line method, which closely approximates
+Added: the effective interest method.
+Added: The Company recorded $13,795 of stock-based compensation expense pursuant to the amortization of
+Added: note discounts during the three months ended March 31, 2020.
+Added: The Company recognized $15,109 of interest
+Added: expense, consisting of $1,314 of interest and $13,795 of stock-based warrant expense pursuant to the amortization of the debt discount
+Added: on the business loans during the three months ended March 31, 2020.
+Added: Note 10 –
+Added: Changes in Stockholders’
+Added: Reverse Stock Split
+Added: On February 21, 2020, the Company effected
+Added: a 1-for-300 reverse stock split (the “Reverse Stock Split”).
+Added: No fractional shares were issued.
+Added: Instead, the Company
+Added: issued the following to any stockholder who otherwise would have received a fractional share as a result of the Reverse Stock Split:
+Added: Stockholders owning 300 or more shares of Common Stock received (1) one share of Common Stock for every 300 shares owned and (2) cash in lieu of fractional shares upon the surrender of such stockholder’s shares;
+Added: Stockholders owning between 25 and 300 shares of Common Stock had their ownership of shares of Common Stock rounded up to one share;
+Added: Stockholders owning fewer than 25 shares of Common Stock received cash in lieu of fractional shares upon the surrender of such stockholders’
+Added: shares and no longer own shares of Common Stock.
+Added: Any cash payment in lieu of fractional
+Added: shares were based on the volume weighted average of the closing sales prices of the Company’s Common Stock on the OTCQB
+Added: operated by OTC Markets Group Inc.
+Added: (the “OTCQB”) during regular trading hours for the five consecutive trading days
+Added: immediately preceding the Effective Date, which was $0.018 per share prior to the effects of the reverse stock split.
+Added: The Company was authorized to issue 500,000,000
+Added: shares of common stock prior to the Reverse Stock Split, which remains unaffected.
+Added: The Reverse Stock Split did not have any effect
+Added: on the stated par value of the common stock, or the Company’s authorized preferred stock.
+Added: Unless otherwise stated, all share
+Added: and per share information in this Interim Report has been retroactively adjusted to reflect the Reverse Stock Split.
Preferred Stock
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shares of $0.001 par value common stock.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2019, and December 31, 2018, a total of 479,844,900 shares of
−Removed: common stock have been issued.
+Added: As of March 31, 2020, and December 31, 2019, a total of 1,600,424 shares of common
+Added: stock have been issued.
BLACK RIDGE OIL & GAS, INC.
−Removed: to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: Condensed Financial Statements
Note 11 –
+Added: The 2020 Equity Plan was approved by written
+Added: consent of a majority of shareholders of record as of November 12, 2019 and adopted by the Board on December 5, 2019, as provided
+Added: in the definitive information statement filed with Securities and Exchange Commission on January 10, 2020 (the “DEF 14C”).
+Added: The description of the 2020 Equity Plan is qualified in its entirety by the text of the 2020 Equity Plan, a copy of which was
+Added: attached as Annex C to the DEF 14C.
+Added: Outstanding Options
+Added: Options to purchase an aggregate total
+Added: of 274,204 shares of common stock at a weighted average strike price of $16.41, exercisable over a weighted average life of nine
+Added: years were outstanding as of March 31, 2020.
Options Granted
−Removed: No options were granted during the nine
−Removed: months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018.
+Added: On February 26, 2020, the Company’s
+Added: Board of Directors granted an aggregate amount of 240,000 stock options pursuant to the 2020 Equity Plan to purchase shares of
+Added: the Company’s common stock to several officers, directors, and employees at an exercise price of $5.41 per share, which represents
+Added: the closing price of the Company’s shares on the OTCQB marketplace on February 20, 2020.
+Added: The officers and directors
+Added: receiving grants and the amounts of such grants were as follows:
+Added: Name and Title
+Added: Shares Granted
+Added: Ken DeCubellis, Chief Executive Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer
+Added: Michael Eisele, Chief Operating Officer
+Added: Bradley Berman, Chairman of the Board and Director
+Added: Joseph Lahti, Director
+Added: Benjamin Oehler, Director
+Added: Lyle Berman, Director
+Added: All of the stock options granted under
+Added: the 2020 Equity Plan presented in the table above will vest in five equal installments, commencing one year from the date of grant
+Added: on February 26, 2021, and continuing for the next four anniversaries thereof until fully vested.
+Added: No options were granted during the three
+Added: months ended March 31, 2019.
The Company recognized a total of $21,489,
−Removed: and $244,664 of compensation expense during the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively, related to common
+Added: and $27,931 of compensation expense during the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively, related to common
stock options issued to Employees and Directors that are being amortized over the implied service term, or vesting period, of the
−Removed: The remaining unamortized balance of these options is $44,079 as of September 30, 2019.
+Added: The remaining unamortized balance of these options is $889,412 as of March 31, 2020.
Options Exercised
−Removed: No options were exercised during the nine
−Removed: months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018.
+Added: No options were exercised during the three
+Added: months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019.
Options Forfeited
−Removed: A total of 137,000 options expired and
−Removed: were forfeited during the nine months ended September 30, 2019.
−Removed: A total of 22,000 options were forfeited during the nine months
−Removed: ended September 30, 2018.
+Added: No options were forfeited during the three
+Added: months ended March 31, 2020.
+Added: A total of 125,000 options expired and were forfeited during the three months ended March 31, 2019.
+Added: BLACK RIDGE OIL & GAS, INC.
+Added: Condensed Financial Statements
Note 12 –
+Added: Outstanding Warrants
+Added: Warrants to purchase an aggregate total
+Added: of 1,300 shares of common stock at a $3.00 strike price, exercisable until September 22, 2022 were outstanding as of March 31,
Warrants Granted
−Removed: No warrants were granted during the nine
−Removed: months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018.
+Added: In consideration for four officers and
+Added: director’s willingness to serve as guarantors of the Cadence Loan, the Company issued warrants to each of the Guarantors
+Added: (the “Guarantor Warrants”) for the purchase of the Company’s common stock on March 12, 2020.
+Added: The Guarantor Warrants
+Added: entitle each Guarantor to purchase 26,250 shares of the Company's common stock (the “Warrant Shares”) at an exercise
+Added: price of $4.00 per share.
+Added: The Guarantor Warrants expire on March 12, 2030.
+Added: No warrants were granted during the three months ended
+Added: March 31, 2019.
+Added: The officers and directors receiving grants and the amounts of such grants were as follows:
+Added: Stock Warrant
+Added: Name and Title
+Added: Shares Granted
+Added: Ken DeCubellis, Chief Executive Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer
+Added: Bradley Berman, Chairman of the Board and Director
+Added: Lyle Berman, Director
+Added: Benjamin Oehler, Director
Warrants Exercised
−Removed: No warrants were exercised during the nine
−Removed: months ended September 30, 2019.
−Removed: Warrants to purchase 45,000 shares were exercised in the nine months ended September 30, 2018
−Removed: for proceeds of $450.
−Removed: Outstanding Warrants
−Removed: The Company issued 435,000 warrants (of
−Removed: which 390,000 are outstanding as of September 30, 2019) to purchase shares at $0.01 per share to participants of the Backstop Agreement
−Removed: on September 22, 2017.
−Removed: The Company accounted for the warrants as an expense of the Rights Offering which resulted in a charge directly
−Removed: to stockholders’
−Removed: The Company estimated the fair value of these warrants to be approximately $10,135 (or $0.0233 per
−Removed: warrant) using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model.
−Removed: The fair value of the warrants was estimated as of the date of grant using
−Removed: the following assumptions:
−Removed: (1) expected volatility of 388%, (2) risk-free interest rate of 1.89% and (3) expected life of five
+Added: No warrants were exercised during the three
+Added: months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019.
Note 13 –
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Losses incurred during the period from
−Removed: April 9, 2011 (inception) to September 30, 2019 could be used to offset future tax liabilities.
−Removed: Accounting standards require the
−Removed: consideration of a valuation allowance for deferred tax assets if it is “more likely than not”
−Removed: that some component
−Removed: or all of the benefits of deferred tax assets will not be realized.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2019, net deferred tax assets were $4,359,663,
−Removed: with no deferred tax liability, primarily related to net operating loss carryforwards.
−Removed: A valuation allowance of approximately $4,359,663
−Removed: was applied to the net deferred tax assets.
+Added: April 9, 2011 (inception) to March 31, 2020 could be used to offset future tax liabilities.
+Added: Accounting standards require the consideration
+Added: of a valuation allowance for deferred tax assets if it is “more likely than not”
+Added: that some component or all of the
+Added: benefits of deferred tax assets will not be realized.
+Added: As of March 31, 2020, net deferred tax assets were $6,770,453, with no deferred
+Added: tax liability, primarily related to net operating loss carryforwards.
+Added: A valuation allowance of approximately $6,770,453 was applied
+Added: to the net deferred tax assets.
Therefore, BROG has no tax expense for 2020 to date.
In accordance with FASB ASC 740, the Company
−Removed: has evaluated its tax positions and determined there are no significant uncertain tax positions as of any date on, or before September
+Added: has evaluated its tax positions and determined there are no significant uncertain tax positions as of any date on, or before March
BLACK RIDGE OIL & GAS, INC.
−Removed: to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: Condensed Financial Statements
Note 14 –
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Subsequent Events
−Removed: The Company evaluates events that
−Removed: have occurred after the balance sheet date through the date these financial statements were issued.
−Removed: No events occurred of a material
−Removed: nature that would have required adjustments to or disclosures in these financial statements.
−Removed: MANAGEMENT’S
−Removed: DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS.
+Added: The Company evaluates events that have
+Added: occurred after the balance sheet date through the date these financial statements were issued.
+Added: On April 24, 2020, the Company entered
+Added: into a loan agreement with Kensington Bank (“Kensington”), as lender (the “Loan Agreement”) encompassing
+Added: a $112,925 Promissory Note issued to Kensington (the “PPP Note”) pursuant to the Payroll Protection Program established
+Added: as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”), which provides loans to qualifying
+Added: businesses and is administered by the U.S.
+Added: Small Business Administration (the “SBA”).
+Added: The PPP Note bears interest at
+Added: 1.00% per annum, payable monthly beginning November 24, 2020, and is due on April 24, 2022.
+Added: The PPP Note may be repaid at any time
+Added: without penalty.
+Added: Under the Payroll Protection Program, the
+Added: Company will be eligible for loan forgiveness up to the full amount of the PPP Note and any accrued interest.
+Added: The forgiveness amount
+Added: will be equal to the amount that the Company spends during the 8-week period beginning April 24, 2020 on payroll costs, payment
+Added: of rent on any leases in force prior to February15, 2020 and payment on any utility for which service began before February 15,
+Added: The maximum amount of loan forgiveness for non-payroll expenses is 25% of the amount of the PPP Note.
+Added: No assurance is provided
+Added: that the Company will obtain forgiveness under the PPP Note in whole or in part.
+Added: The PPP Note contains customary events
+Added: of default relating to, among other things, payment defaults, breach of representations and warranties, or provisions of the promissory
+Added: The occurrence of an event of default may result in a claim for the immediate repayment of all amounts outstanding under
+Added: such PPP Note, collection of all amounts owing from the Company, filing suit and obtaining judgment against the Company.
+Added: MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION
+Added: AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS.
Cautionary Statements
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results to differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements include the following:
+Added: failure to identify acquire or invest in alternatives for
+Added: the Company that generate shareholder value, including a merger, acquisition, or a business combination in connection with our
+Added: Board’s evaluation of strategic options ;
+Added: the effect of the coronavirus (“COVID-19”) pandemic
+Added: on our efforts to identify, review and explore strategic alternatives and our ability to obtain funding through various
+Added: financing transactions or arrangements;
volatility or decline of our stock price;
−Removed: low trading volume and illiquidity of our common stock, and possible application of the SEC’s penny stock rules;
+Added: low trading volume and illiquidity of our common stock, and possible application of the SEC’s
+Added: penny stock rules;
potential fluctuation in quarterly results;
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material defaults on monetary obligations owed us, resulting in unexpected losses;
+Added: inadequate capital of our clients to acquire working interests in oil and gas prospects and to
+Added: participate in the drilling and production of oil and other hydrocarbons;
inability to maintain adequate liquidity to meet our financial obligations;
−Removed: failure to acquire or grow new business;
+Added: unavailability of oil and gas prospects to acquire for our clients;
+Added: failure to acquire or grow new business ourselves
litigation, disputes and legal claims involving outside parties;
−Removed: risks related to seeking a listing on a national securities exchange and meeting listing requirements;
−Removed: risks related to our holdings of AESE common stock.
+Added: risks related to our ability to be traded on the OTCQB and meeting trading requirements
We have based these
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“ANFC.”
−Removed: Company is focused on acquiring, investing in, and managing the oil and gas assets for ourselves or our partners.
−Removed: Additionally,
−Removed: as the sponsor and manager of Black Ridge Acquisition Corp.
+Added: the sponsor and manager of Black Ridge Acquisition Corp.
(“BRAC”) beginning in May of 2017, the Company was focused
−Removed: on identifying and closing a business combination for BRAC.
−Removed: Now that BRAC (renamed Allied Esports Entertainment, Inc.
−Removed: the merger or “AESE”, and hereafter named as such following the merger) has completed its business combination we will
−Removed: continue to provide additional management services to BRAC through December 31, 2019.
−Removed: Following the close
−Removed: of the Merger, the Company commenced a strategic review to identify, review and explore alternatives for the Company, including
−Removed: a merger, acquisition, or a business combination.
−Removed: The Company currently owns 2,685,500 shares of BRAC (the “Sponsor Shares”).
−Removed: Of those shares, 537,100 of the Sponsor Shares are subject to distribution rights to officers and directors under the 2018 Management
−Removed: Incentive Plan dated March 6, 2018.
−Removed: Black Ridge is evaluating plans for the remaining Sponsor Shares which could include a distribution
−Removed: of some or all of the Sponsor Share proceeds after expiration of the lock-up agreement on August 9, 2020.
−Removed: BRAC Business Combination
−Removed: On December 19, 2018,
−Removed: BRAC entered into an Agreement and Plan of Reorganization (the “Merger Agreement”) with Black Ridge Merger Sub, Corp.,
−Removed: a Delaware corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of BRAC’s (“Merger Sub”), Allied Esports Entertainment, Inc.
−Removed: (“Allied Esports”), Ourgame International Holdings Ltd.
−Removed: (“Ourgame”), Noble Link Global Limited, a wholly-owned
−Removed: subsidiary of Ourgame (“Noble”), and Primo Vital Ltd., also a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ourgame (“Primo”).
−Removed: Pursuant to the Agreement,
−Removed: as amended on August 5, 2019, (i) Noble merged with and into Allied Esports (the “Redomestication Merger”) with Allied
−Removed: Esports continuing as the surviving entity in such merger and (ii) immediately after the Redomestication Merger, Merger merged
−Removed: with and into Allied Esports with Allied Esports continuing as the surviving entity of such merger (the “Transaction Merger”
−Removed: and together with the Redomestication Merger, the “Mergers”
−Removed: or the “Proposed Business Combination”) and
−Removed: became a wholly-owned subsidiary of BRAC The Mergers closed on August 9, 2019.
−Removed: Upon consummation of
−Removed: the Mergers (the “Closing”), BRAC issued to the former owners of Allied Esports and WPT Enterprises, Inc.
−Removed: (“WPT”)
−Removed: (i) an aggregate of 11,602,754 shares of BRAC’s common stock and (ii) an aggregate of 3,800,003 warrants to purchase shares
−Removed: of BRAC’s common stock.
−Removed: In addition to the
−Removed: consideration described above, the former owners of Allied Esports and WPT are entitled to receive their pro rata portion of an
−Removed: aggregate of an additional 3,846,153 shares of AESE’s common stock if the last sales price of AESE’s common stock equals
−Removed: or exceeds $13.00 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations and recapitalizations) for thirty (30)
−Removed: consecutive days at any time during the five (5) year period commencing on the date of the Closing (the “Closing Date”).
−Removed: The Mergers resulted
−Removed: in BRAC acquiring two of Ourgame’s global esports and entertainment assets, Allied Esports and WPT.
−Removed: Allied Esports is a premier
−Removed: esports entertainment company with a global network of dedicated esports properties and content production facilities.
−Removed: creator of the World Poker Tour®
−Removed: (WPT®) –
−Removed: the premier name in internationally televised gaming and entertainment
−Removed: with brand presence in land-based tournaments, television, online and mobile.
−Removed: The transaction strategically combined the globally
−Removed: recognized Allied Esports brand with the three-pronged business model of the iconic World Poker Tour, featuring in-person experiences,
−Removed: multiplatform content and interactive services, to leverage the high-growth opportunities in the global esports industry.
−Removed: Further information
−Removed: regarding the Business Combination, the combined company following consummation of the Business Combination and the risks related
−Removed: to the business of the combined company following consummation of the Business Combination can be found in BRAC’s Current
−Removed: Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 20, 2018, the preliminary proxy statement filed
−Removed: by BRAC with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 15, 2019 (and subsequently amended on April 29, 2019, May 20, 2019
−Removed: and June 5, 2019 and the definitive proxy statement filed by BRAC with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 12, 2019.
−Removed: The Extension Meeting
−Removed: 9, 2019, BRAC held a special meeting of its stockholders (the “Meeting”).
−Removed: At the Meeting, BRAC’s stockholders
−Removed: considered a proposal to adopt and approve an amendment to BRAC’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation (the
−Removed: “Charter”) to extend the date that BRAC has to consummate a business combination (the “Extension”) to August
−Removed: The amendment was approved by the stockholders and filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on July
−Removed: In connection
−Removed: with this vote, the holders of 9,246,727 shares of BRAC’s common stock properly exercised their right to convert their shares
−Removed: into cash at a conversion price of approximately $10.29 per share resulting in $95,125,574 in Trust Account assets being distributed
−Removed: back to shareholders.
−Removed: In connection with the Extension, BROG, loaned $30,000 to BRAC to be placed in the Trust Account for the
−Removed: benefit of the public shares that were not converted.
−Removed: The loan is non-interest bearing and is evidenced by a promissory note issued
−Removed: by BRAC on the same date.
−Removed: The loan was repaid by BRAC on August 12, 2019.
−Removed: Amendment to the Business Combination
−Removed: On August 5, 2019,
−Removed: BRAC entered into an amendment (the “Amendment”) to the Business Combination Agreement.
−Removed: The Amendment reduced the closing
−Removed: condition originally contained in the Business Combination Agreement requiring BRAC to have minimum cash on hand following the
−Removed: proper exercise of conversion rights by the holders of public shares from at least $80,000,000 to $22,000,000.
−Removed: This condition was
−Removed: waived by Ourgame prior to the close of the Business Combination.
−Removed: The Business Combination Agreement also originally provided for
−Removed: BRAC to repay $35,000,000 of indebtedness of Allied Esports and the World Poker Tour owed to Ourgame in cash at the closing of
−Removed: the transactions (the “Closing”).
−Removed: Pursuant to the Amendment, the parties agreed that instead of paying the full $35,000,000
−Removed: in cash at the Closing, BRAC would (i) assume $10,000,000 of the debt obligations of Ourgame and Noble (including an additional
−Removed: $1,200,000 of accrued interest) and (ii) repay Ourgame the remaining balance of $23,800,000 by paying $3,500,000 in cash to Ourgame
−Removed: and its designees, issuing to Ourgame and its designees 2,928,679 shares of BRAC’s common stock and Ourgame retaining $1,000,000
−Removed: of the proceeds of such loans to pay its transaction expenses incurred in the Merger.
−Removed: In connection with entering into the Amendment,
−Removed: BROG agreed to transfer an aggregate of 600,000 shares of BRAC’s common stock held by it to Ourgame.
−Removed: In connection with
−Removed: the execution of the Amendment, the parties entered into an amendment and acknowledgment agreement (“Acknowledgment Agreement”)
−Removed: whereby the terms of the previously issued convertible notes (“Notes”) of Allied Esports and WPT (collectively “AEII/WPT”)
−Removed: whereby bridge holders provided $14 million to be used for the operations of AEII/WPT were amended.
−Removed: Pursuant to the Acknowledgement
−Removed: Agreement, the bridge holders have agreed to defer repayment of the Notes to one year and two weeks following the Closing (the
−Removed: “Maturity Date”).
−Removed: In consideration of agreeing to the deferred repayment, the bridge holders will be paid an additional
−Removed: six months of interest (i.e., a total of 18 months of interest) to the extent any bridge holder elects not to convert their Note
−Removed: BRAC agreed to assume the debt under the Notes as part of the mergers contemplated by the Agreement, and agreed that
−Removed: the debt will be secured by all the assets of BRAC following the Closing.
−Removed: BROG, as the Sponsor, has also agreed that it will not
−Removed: make any further transfer of its securities of BRAC, subject to certain exceptions, until the debt is repaid.
−Removed: The Notes are convertible
−Removed: at any time by a holder between the Closing and the Maturity Date at the “Conversion Price.”
−Removed: The “Conversion
−Removed: is the lesser of $8.50 per share or the price at which shares are issued to Ourgame or its affiliates in connection
−Removed: with the mergers.
−Removed: In July and August
−Removed: 2019, BRAC and BROG also entered into several share purchase agreements (the “Purchase Agreements”) with several parties
−Removed: (collectively referred to as the “Purchasers”).
−Removed: Pursuant to the Purchase Agreements, the Purchasers agreed to purchase
−Removed: an aggregate of $18,000,000 of shares of BRAC’s common stock in open market or privately negotiated transactions.
−Removed: Purchasers are unable to purchase the full $18,000,000 of shares of common stock in open market or privately negotiated transactions,
−Removed: BRAC will issue to the Purchasers newly issued shares at the Closing at a per-share price equal to the per-share amount held in
−Removed: BRAC’s trust account (currently approximately $10.30 per share), and having an aggregate value equal to the difference between
−Removed: $18,000,000 and the dollar amount of shares purchased by them in the open market or in privately negotiated transactions.
−Removed: the agreements also contains certain restrictions on the use of cash from the purchase.
−Removed: At the Closing, BRAC agreed to issue to
−Removed: the Purchasers 1.5 shares of common stock for every 10 shares purchased by them under the Purchase Agreements.
−Removed: Additionally, BROG
−Removed: agreed to transfer an aggregate of 720,000 shares held by it of BRAC common stock to the Purchasers.
−Removed: Pursuant to the Purchase Agreements,
−Removed: BRAC was required to file a registration statement with the SEC as promptly as practicable following Closing to register the resale
−Removed: of any securities purchased by the Purchasers that are not already registered and cause such registration statement to become effective
−Removed: as soon as possible.
−Removed: The registration statement was filed by AESE on September 20, 2019 and became effective on October 3, 2019.
−Removed: The Purchasers included a $3 million investment from Lyle Berman, a member of the board of directors of both BRAC and BROG
−Removed: and the largest shareholder of BROG.
−Removed: Additionally, $5 million will be held in an escrow account and its usage will be limited
−Removed: to specific capital projects.
−Removed: Closing of the Business Combination
−Removed: The Business Combination
−Removed: was closed on August 9, 2019.
−Removed: In connection with the closing, the holders of 3,015,124 shares of the Company’s common stock
−Removed: properly exercised their right to convert their shares into cash at a conversion price of approximately $10.31 per share resulting
−Removed: in $31,080,410 in Trust Account assets being distributed back to shareholders.
−Removed: Additionally, the Purchasers fulfilled their purchase
−Removed: commitments purchasing approximately $12.1 million of BRAC’s shares in the open market or through privately negotiated
−Removed: transactions and directly purchasing 479,546 additional shares of BRAC common stock for $4.9 million directly from BRAC.
−Removed: Commensurate with the
−Removed: Business Combination BROG converted $600,000 of convertible loans to BRAC into 60,000 units (comprised 66,000 shares after conversion
−Removed: of stock rights and 60,000 warrants with terms similar to the IPO warrants).
−Removed: The remaining $150,000 in convertible loans were returned
−Removed: in cash by BRAC to BROG.
−Removed: Additionally, the underwriter agreed to an amendment to its agreement, modifying its payment due at the
−Removed: close of the Business Combination to $4 million, $2 million in cash and $2 million in equity.
−Removed: Other advisors used
−Removed: in the transaction agreed to accept payment for $3.8 million in contingent fees in BRAC equity.
−Removed: Upon, the close of
−Removed: the Business Combination, BROG owned 2,685,500 shares of BRAC stock, representing approximately 11.6% of the outstanding shares
−Removed: As per the Black Ridge Oil & Gas, Inc.
−Removed: 2018 Management Incentive Plan, 20% of the shares, or 537,100 shares, owned
−Removed: by BROG are committed to employees and directors of the Company.
−Removed: Additionally, as the conditions warranting BROG’s treatment
−Removed: of BRAC as a VIE have been eliminated, BRAC will no longer be accounted for as a VIE and consolidated for financial statement reporting
−Removed: purposes from the date of the closing of the Business Combination forward.
+Added: on identifying and closing a business combination for BRAC, which closed on August 9, 2019.
+Added: Upon BRAC (renamed Allied Esports Entertainment,
+Added: following the merger or “AESE”, and hereafter named as such following the merger) completing its business combination,
+Added: we continued to provide additional management services to BRAC until December 31, 2019 .
+Added: the close of the Merger, the Company commenced a strategic review to identify, review and explore alternatives for the Company,
+Added: including a merger, acquisition, or a business combination.
+Added: The Company currently owns 2,685,500 Sponsor Shares.
+Added: Of those shares,
+Added: 537,100 of the Sponsor Shares are subject to distribution rights to officers and directors under the 2018 Management Incentive
+Added: Plan dated March 6, 2018.
+Added: Black Ridge is evaluating plans for the remaining Sponsor Shares which could include a distribution of
+Added: some or all of the Sponsor Share proceeds after expiration of the lock-up agreement on August 9, 2020, presuming that as of such
+Added: date AESE has repaid or converted amounts it owes pursuant to the bridge financing Note Purchase Agreement and Notes dated as of
+Added: October 11, 2018 and May 17, 2019.
Going Concern Uncertainty
−Removed: As of September 30,
+Added: As of March 31, 2020,
the Company had a cash balance of $52,097, and total working capital of negative $882,749.
−Removed: The Company’s management
−Removed: consulting agreement with BRAC calls for management fees of $313,316 from October 1, 2019 through December 31, 2019 and does not
−Removed: continue into 2020.
−Removed: Based on projections of cash expenditures in the Company’s current business plan, the cash on hand would
−Removed: be insufficient to fund the Company’s general and administrative expenses over the next year.
+Added: The Company has incurred recurring losses
+Added: from operations resulting in an accumulated deficit of $34,002,978, and as of March 31, 2020, the Company’s cash on hand
+Added: may not be sufficient to sustain operations.
+Added: These factors raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue
+Added: as a going concern.
+Added: The Company is currently seeking additional sources of capital to fund short term operations.
+Added: however, is dependent upon its ability to secure equity and/or debt financing and there are no assurances that the Company will
+Added: be successful;
+Added: therefore, without sufficient financing it would be unlikely for the Company to continue as a going concern.
We continue to pursue
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independent registered public accounting firm that accompanies its audited consolidated financial statements in the Company’s
−Removed: Annual Report on Form 10-K contains an explanatory paragraph regarding the substantial doubt about the Company’s ability
+Added: Annual Report on Form 10-K/A contains an explanatory paragraph regarding the substantial doubt about the Company’s ability
to continue as a going concern.
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Results of Operations for the Three
−Removed: Months Ended September 30, 2019 and 2018.
+Added: Months Ended March 31, 2020 and 2019.
The following table
−Removed: summarizes selected items from the statement of operations for the three months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
+Added: summarizes selected items from the statement of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
Three Months Ended
−Removed: September 30,
Management fee income
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Salaries and benefits
−Removed: Stock and deferred compensation
−Removed: Professional services
−Removed: Other general and administrative expenses
−Removed: Total general and administrative expenses
−Removed: Depreciation and amortization
−Removed: Total operating expenses
−Removed: Net operating loss
−Removed: Other income (expense)
−Removed: Gain on deconsolidation of subsidiary
−Removed: Merger incentive expense
−Removed: Settlement income
−Removed: Settlement expense
−Removed: Total other income (expense)
−Removed: (18,310,987 )
−Removed: Net profit from continuing operations before provision for income taxes
−Removed: Provision for income taxes
−Removed: Net profit from continuing operations, net of tax
−Removed: Net profit (loss) from discontinued operations
−Removed: Net profit before non-controlling interest
−Removed: Net income attributable to redeemable non-controlling interest
−Removed: Net income attributable to Black Ridge Oil & Gas, Inc.
−Removed: Management fee revenue
−Removed: The Company earned
−Removed: management fees of $153,279 during the three months ended September 30, 2019 from its management agreement with BRAC subsequent
−Removed: to the Mergers.
−Removed: The Company didn’t earn any management fees during the three months ended September 30, 2018.
−Removed: General and administrative expenses
−Removed: Salaries and benefits
−Removed: Salaries and benefits
−Removed: for the three months ended September 30, 2019 were $279,621, compared to $285,839 for the three months ended September 30, 2018,
−Removed: a decrease of $6,218, or 2%.
−Removed: Base salaries were consistent between the two periods.
Stock-based compensation
−Removed: Stock-based compensation
−Removed: expense for the three months ended September 30, 2019 was $2,836,920, compared to $77,901 for the three months ended September
−Removed: 30, 2018, an increase of $2,759,019 or 3,542%.
−Removed: Included in the expense for the three months ended September 30, 2019, was $2,809,033
−Removed: of expense related to the 2018 Management Incentive Plan (the “2018 Plan”).
Professional services
−Removed: General and administrative
−Removed: expenses related to professional services were $40,287 for the 2019 period, compared to $39,348 for the 2018 period, an increase
−Removed: of $939, or 2%.
−Removed: Professional services were generally consistent between the periods.
Other general and administrative expenses
−Removed: Other general and administrative
−Removed: expenses for the three months ended September 30, 2019 were $69,157, compared to $58,289 for the three months ended September 30,
−Removed: 2018, an increase of $10,868, or 19%.
−Removed: The increase is attributable to increased insurance costs and meals and entertainment expenses.
−Removed: Depreciation expense
−Removed: for the three months ended September 30, 2019 was $131, compared to $2,535 for the three months ended September 30, 2018.
−Removed: Other income (expense)
−Removed: months ended September 30, 2019, other income was $20,448,687 consisting of the gain upon deconsolidation of BRAC of
−Removed: $26,322,687 and an offsetting merger incentive expense of $5,874,000 to recognize the cost related to transferring shares of
−Removed: AESE stock to the former owners of Allied Esports and WPT and other investors as incentive to participate in
−Removed: In the three months
−Removed: ended September 30, 2018, other income was $2,137,700 consisting primarily of net settlement income of $2,137,500 from the final
−Removed: settlement of the contingent portion of a 2012 settlement agreement.
−Removed: Provision for income taxes
−Removed: The Company had no
−Removed: income tax expense in the 2019 or 2018 periods, as the Company continues to reserve against any deferred tax assets due to the
−Removed: uncertainty of realization of any benefit.
−Removed: Net profit (loss)
−Removed: from discontinued operations
−Removed: Net profit (loss) from
−Removed: discontinued operations relates to the income and expenses of BRAC during the periods prior to deconsolidation.
−Removed: Net profit (loss)
−Removed: from discontinued operations consisted of a loss of $8,152,165, compared to a profit of $442,487, a difference of $8,594,652.
−Removed: the 2019 period, there were contingent closing costs from BRAC’s underwriter and other investment bankers involved in the
−Removed: merger of $7,917,500.
−Removed: Additionally, interest from investments in the trust account for the benefit of potential redeeming shareholders
−Removed: was $676,147 in 2018, but decreased to $145,367 in 2019, as the trust account redemptions and the withdrawal of the remaining assets
−Removed: at the time of the Mergers shortened the period and decreased the balances on which interest was earned.
−Removed: Other legal, audit and
−Removed: consulting costs were higher during the 2019 period due to numerous SEC filings in the periods leading up to the merger.
−Removed: Results of Operations for the Nine Months
−Removed: Ended September 30, 2019 and 2018.
−Removed: The following table
−Removed: summarizes selected items from the statement of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
−Removed: Nine Months Ended
−Removed: September 30,
−Removed: Management fee income
−Removed: Total revenues:
−Removed: Operating expenses:
−Removed: General and administrative expenses:
−Removed: Salaries and benefits
−Removed: Stock compensation
−Removed: Professional services
−Removed: Other general and administrative expenses
Total general and administrative expenses
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Other income (expense)
−Removed: Gain on deconsolidation of subsidiary
−Removed: Merger incentive expense
−Removed: Settlement income
−Removed: Settlement expense
+Added: Interest expense, including $13,795 of warrants issued as a debt discount
+Added: Loss on investment in Allied Esports Entertainment, Inc.
Total other income (expense)
−Removed: Net profit from continuing operations before provision for income taxes
+Added: Net loss from continuing operations, net of tax
Provision for income taxes
Net profit from continuing operations, net of tax
−Removed: Net profit (loss) from discontinued operations
−Removed: Net profit before non-controlling interest
−Removed: Net income attributable to redeemable non-controlling interest
−Removed: Net income attributable to Black Ridge Oil & Gas, Inc.
+Added: Net income from discontinued operations
+Added: Net loss before non-controlling interest
+Added: Net loss attributable to redeemable non-controlling interest
+Added: Net loss attributable to Black Ridge Oil & Gas, Inc.
+Added: $ (2,645,579 )
Management fee revenue
−Removed: The Company earned
−Removed: management fees during the nine months ended September 30, 2019, from its management agreement with BRAC subsequent to the Mergers.
−Removed: The Company didn’t earn any management fees during the nine months ended September 30, 2018.
+Added: The Company didn’t
+Added: earn any management fees from its management agreement with BRAC during the three months ended March 31, 2020, compared to $30,000
+Added: during the three months ended March 31, 2019.
+Added: The decrease is attributable to the termination of the agreement subsequent to the
+Added: merger between BRAC and AESE on August 9, 2019.
General and administrative expenses
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Salaries and benefits
−Removed: for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 were $910,191, compared to $914,166 for the nine months ended September 30, 2018,
−Removed: a decrease of $3,975, or less than 1%.
−Removed: Base salaries were consistent between the two periods.
+Added: for the three months ended March 31, 2020 were $219,724 compared to $318,110 for the three months ended March 31, 2019, a decrease
+Added: of 98,386, or 31%.
+Added: The decrease in salaries and benefits was primarily due to a headcount decrease and decreased health benefit
Stock-based compensation
Stock-based compensation
−Removed: expense for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 was $2,892,738, compared to $244,664 for the nine months ended September 30,
−Removed: 2018, an increase of $2,648,074 or 1,082%.
−Removed: Included in the expense for the nine months ended September 30, 2019, was $2,809,033
−Removed: of expense related to the 2018 Management Incentive Plan (the “2018 Plan”).
+Added: expense for the three months ended March 31, 2020 was $21,489 compared to $27,931 for the three months ended March 31, 2019, a
+Added: decrease of $6,442 or 23%.
+Added: Included in the expense for the three months ended March 31, 2020, was $16,685 of expense related
+Added: to the 2020 Stock Incentive Plan, and $4,804 related to the 2019 Stock Incentive Plan.
Amortization of stock options decreased
−Removed: by $160,959, as a significant group of options became fully amortized at the end of 2018.
+Added: as a significant group of options became fully amortized at the end of 2019.
Professional services
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expenses related to professional services were $84,984 for the 2020 period compared to $27,708 for the 2019 period, an increase
−Removed: of $23, or less than 1%.
−Removed: Professional services were largely unchanged between the periods.
+Added: of $57,276 or 207%.
+Added: The increase was primarily due to accounting services provided by an outside consultant and legal costs associated
+Added: with the reverse stock split, stock option agreements and Cadence loan agreement.
Other general and administrative expenses
Other general and administrative
−Removed: expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 were $185,035, compared to $194,530 for the nine months ended September 30,
−Removed: 2018, a decrease of $9,495, or 5%.
−Removed: The decrease is attributable to public relations costs, travel costs and insurance costs, as
−Removed: diminished by increased meals and entertainment.
+Added: expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2020 was $91,150 compared to $56,558 for the three months ended March 31, 2019, an
+Added: increase of $34,592, or 61%.
+Added: The increase is primarily attributable to increased stock services expense related to the reverse
Depreciation expense
−Removed: for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 was $754, compared to $7,650 for the nine months ended September 30, 2018.
+Added: for the three months ended March 31, 2020 was $271, compared to $443 for the three months ended March 31, 2019, a decrease of $172,
+Added: The decrease is attributable to certain equipment becoming fully amortized.
Other income (expense)
−Removed: months ended September 30, 2019, other income was $20,448,738, consisting of the gain upon deconsolidation of BRAC of
−Removed: $26,322,687 and an offsetting merger incentive expense of $5,874,000 to recognize the cost related to transferring shares of
−Removed: AESE stock to the former owners of Allied Esports and WPT and other investors as incentive to participate in
−Removed: In the nine months
−Removed: ended September 30, 2018, other income was $2,138,440, consisting primarily of net settlement income of $2,137,500 resulting from
−Removed: the final settlement of the contingent portion of a 2012 settlement agreement.
+Added: In the three months
+Added: ended March 31, 2020, other expense was $2,227,961, consisting of $1,314 of interest expense derived from the business loans the
+Added: Company received from Cadence Bank, N.A and RBC Capital Markets, LLC, and $13,795 of expense related to the amortization
+Added: of warrants issued in consideration of personal guarantees provided for debt financing, along with a net loss on investments in
+Added: Allied Esports Entertainment, Inc.
+Added: of $2,212,852, compared to $51 of other income, consisting entirely of other income related
+Added: to a refund received during the three months ended March 31, 2019.
Provision for income taxes
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from discontinued operations
−Removed: Net profit (loss) from
−Removed: discontinued operations relates to the income and expenses of BRAC during the periods prior to deconsolidation.
−Removed: Net profit (loss)
−Removed: from discontinued operations consisted of a loss of $7,421,050, compared to a profit of $1,078,489, a difference of $8,499,539.
−Removed: During the 2019 period, there were contingent closing costs from BRAC’s underwriter and other investment bankers involved
−Removed: in the merger of $7,917,500.
−Removed: Other legal, audit and consulting costs were higher during the 2019 period due to numerous SEC filings
−Removed: in the periods leading up to the merger.
−Removed: Offsetting the additional costs, interest from investments in the trust account for the
−Removed: benefit of potential redeeming shareholders was $1,722,249 in 2018, but increased to $1,780,992 in 2019 as interest rates on investments
−Removed: were higher, offsetting trust account redemptions and the withdrawal of the remaining assets at the time of the Mergers that shortened
−Removed: the period and decreased the balances on which interest was earned.
+Added: Net income from discontinued
+Added: operations relates to the income and expenses of BRAC during the periods prior to deconsolidation.
+Added: Net income from discontinued
+Added: operations of $332,411 during the three months ended March 31, 2019, consisting primarily of $811,335 of interest income on investments
+Added: in the trust account for the benefit of potential redeeming shareholders and a gain of $4,733 on investments, as offset by $223,726
+Added: of general and administrative expenses, $73,352 of professional fees and $186,579 of income taxes.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
The following table
−Removed: summarizes our total current assets, liabilities and working capital at September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018,
−Removed: respectively.
−Removed: September 30,
+Added: summarizes our total current assets, liabilities and working capital at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively.
Current Assets
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$ (1,289,995 )
−Removed: As of September 30,
+Added: As of March 31, 2020,
we had negative working capital of $882,749.
−Removed: Liabilities of $2,809,033 related to the 2018 Management Incentive Plan are
−Removed: included in current liabilities as of September 30, 2019, which will be settled in common stock from the Company’s Investment
−Removed: in Allied Esports Entertainment, Inc., a long-term asset.
+Added: Liabilities of $843,247 related to the 2018 Management Incentive Plan are included
+Added: in current liabilities as of March 31, 2020, which will be settled in common stock from the Company’s Investment in Allied
+Added: Esports Entertainment, Inc., a long-term asset.
The following table
−Removed: summarizes our cash flows during the nine month periods ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
−Removed: Nine Months Ended
−Removed: September 30,
+Added: summarizes our cash flows during the three-month periods ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
+Added: Three Months Ended
Net cash used in operating activities
−Removed: $ (9,759,160 )
Net cash provided by investing activities
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Net change in cash and cash equivalents
−Removed: $ (1,438,887 )
Net cash used in operating
−Removed: activities was $9,759,160 for the nine months ended September 30, 2019, and net cash provided by operating activities was $473,366
−Removed: for the nine months ended September 30, 2018, a period over period decrease of $10,232,526.
−Removed: The decrease was primarily due to net
−Removed: settlement income $2,137,500 received in 2018, and an increase of $6,342,561 in net losses in discontinued operations of BRAC due
−Removed: primarily to the recognition of $7,917,500 of contingent fees upon BRAC’s business combination.
−Removed: Changes in working capital
−Removed: from continuing operating activities resulted in a decrease in cash of $181,718 in the nine months ended September 30, 2019, as
−Removed: compared to a decrease in cash of $11,218 for the same period in the previous year.
−Removed: provided by investing activities were $6,888,299 and $187,773 for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018,
−Removed: respectively.
−Removed: In 2019, cash disposed upon deconsolidation resulted in a decrease of $9,992,493.
−Removed: In the 2019 and 2018 periods,
−Removed: cash provided from discontinued operations of $16,880,792 and $187,773, respectively, was the result of transfers and
−Removed: withdrawals from the Trust Account.
+Added: activities was $321,659 and $741,799 for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively, a period over period decrease
+Added: The decrease was primarily due to a decrease of $390,335 in net losses in discontinued operations of BRAC.
+Added: in working capital from continuing operating activities resulted in a decrease in cash of $56,659 in the three months ended March
+Added: 31, 2020, as compared to a decrease in cash of $646,975 for the same period in the previous year.
Net cash provided by
−Removed: financing activities was $1,431,974 and $450 for the nine months ended September 30, 2019.
−Removed: All of the 2019 activity was the result
−Removed: of activities in the discontinued operations of BRAC.
+Added: investing activities were $-0- and $94,824 for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
+Added: In the period ended
+Added: March 31, 2019, virtually all the cash was provided from discontinued operations and was the result of transfers and withdrawals
+Added: from the Trust Account.
+Added: Net cash provided by
+Added: financing activities was $265,000 and $-0- for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
+Added: All of the 2020 activity
+Added: was the result of net proceeds from notes payable.
Satisfaction of our cash obligations
for the next 12 months
−Removed: As of September 30, 2019,
−Removed: our balance of cash and cash equivalents was $64,613.
−Removed: Our plan for satisfying our cash requirements for the next twelve months
−Removed: is through additional management service fees generated from our current management agreement with AESE through the end of 2019,
−Removed: management fees from new partners and additional financing in the form of equity or debt as needed.
+Added: As of March 31, 2020,
+Added: our balance of cash was $52,097 and we had total working capital of negative $882,749.
+Added: We expect to incur significant costs related
+Added: to a potential business combination which will put a strain on our cash resources.
+Added: Our plan for satisfying our cash requirements
+Added: for the next twelve months is through cash on hand and additional financing in the form of equity or debt as needed.
+Added: 12, 2020, the Company received a business loan from Cadence Bank, N.A.
+Added: via a $700,000 Promissory Note, of which the Company
+Added: drew down $265,000, a Security Agreement by the Company and limited commercial guarantees by the Company’s Chief Executive
+Added: Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer and members of the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Guarantors”).
+Added: The Note bears interest at a rate of 0.500 percentage points over the prime rate, currently 4.25% per annum, payable monthly,
+Added: is due on March 9, 2021 and is secured by all of the Company’s rights, title and interests in and to 500,000 shares of the
+Added: common stock of Allied Esports Entertainment Inc.
+Added: AESE) currently owned by the Company and held in the Company’s
+Added: brokerage account with RBC Capital Markets, LLC.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
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policies are more fully described in Note 2 of the footnotes to our financial statements appearing elsewhere in this Form 10-Q,
−Removed: and Note 2 of the footnotes to the financial statements provided in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December
−Removed: AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK .
−Removed: Interest Rate Risk
−Removed: We currently have no
−Removed: long-term debt, but should we take on debt in the future changes in interest rates could impact results of operations and cash
+Added: and Note 2 of the footnotes to the financial statements provided in our Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the fiscal year ended December
+Added: QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE
+Added: DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK .
+Added: As a “smaller
+Added: reporting company”
+Added: as defined by Item 10 of Regulation S-K, the Company is not required to provide the information required
+Added: by this Item.
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