A startup that enables fans to create their own virtual living rooms has won the second BT Infinity Lab competition. The winner, Sceenic, will now have its services trialled by British sports channel BT Sport for potential use. The service works by users logging on and creating a private room in which they can watch […]
MUNICH — While U.S. sports have embraced the hackathon, with the NBA hosting its own hack, European sports and their teams by contrast have been much slower to jump into this space. While English soccer team Manchester City held a hackathon for the past two years, compared to the NBA’s and others in the U.S., […]
MUNICH — A team called “Beat Adidas” became the first to win the grand prize at FC Bayern Munich’s inaugural HackDays event which ran from Jan 19-22. The hackathon event was divided up into seven predetermined challenges, with this team taking part in the Adidas stream. In order to win the grand prize, it first needed […]
For Germany’s FC Bayern Munich, there are very few firsts that the club has to check off thanks to its illustrious history. But from Jan. 19-22, for the first time the club will host what it is calling the FC Bayern HackDays to help to create new, innovative fan experiences based around the current German Bundesliga […]
They may never play for the Stanley Cup, but the best EA Sports NHL 18 players in North America will soon play for a different prize. That prize is the Snider Hockey Cup, named in memory of former Philadelphia Flyers owner Ed Snider, and those adept gamers can earn up to $17,500 in prizes. The […]
