«We are looking forward to an exciting year of
global eSports events.»
Not exact matches
These tournaments will mark the first stop in Daybreak's Elite Series, H1Z1's
global esports circuit, and is expected to be the largest
esports event at DreamHack Atlanta in terms of both participants and prizing.
While forecasts from multiple sources projected it, a bigger indicator of
eSports» growth was the League of Legends World Championships being picked up for broadcast by the BBC, allowing the four day - long
event to reach an immense
global audience.
«This year's
event will again commence with the
esports action of BlizzCon Opening Week, taking place at Blizzard Arena Los Angeles from October 25 to 29, where the initial rounds of the StarCraft II World Championship Series
Global Finals, the Heroes of the Storm
Global Championship Finals, and World of Warcraft Arena World Championship Finals will unfold.
A panel on the opportunities in the
global esports market kicked off proceedings at the London Games Festival HUB
event, with representatives from
Events DC, Excel and Laser League maker Roll7.
Challenge, Premier (which are large - scale
events that will be hosted by partners), and EA Majors (
global events that feature large prizes) were all shown off in an effort to push Madden into the
esports scene.
In January we launched the Call of Duty World League, presented by PlayStation 4 — a new
global esports league operated by Activision that takes competitive Call of Duty to a whole new level with regional LAN
events, live - streamed competitions throughout the year, and a combined $ 3 million prize pool.
This won't be the first time that the Barclays Center has hosted an
esports event, as the venue has played host for the ESL One New York Counter-Strike:
Global Offensive tournament for the last two years and will do so for a third time later this year.
In addition to Facebook's announcement of a new partnership with the MLB to live stream a number of regular season games, the social network this week also signed a deal with
global esports company ESL to bring over 5,550 hours of
esports events and other original content to Facebook, including 1,500 of original programming.