The debate over whether esports are really sports is becoming moot. Today, the Overwatch League announced that it had sold more than 20,000 tickets for the league’s Grand Finals to...
The debate over whether esports are really sports is becoming moot. Today, the Overwatch League announced that it had sold more than 20,000 tickets for the league’s Grand Finals to be played at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn at the end of July. In comparison, the average attendance for a Nets game last season was […]
The U.S. Supreme Court Decision about sports betting was a win for Mark Cuban, and not only because he’s the owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks. Traditional sports owners with a vested interest in esports, such as Cuban, stand to gain doubly from relaxed wagering rules in the U.S. Cuban believes gambling will increase interest […]
Brooklyn’s Barclay’s Center has hosted disappointing seasons from the Nets and Islanders the past few seasons. But this summer, the venue will host a very different sports event. The inaugural season of Overwatch League will see its champion crowned at the venue over a two-day Grand Final running July 27-28. The event will follow two […]
The Overwatch League players and fans are going from the two-dimensional to the three-dimensional. On Wednesday, Sansar, a free social virtual reality platform, announced it had been collaborating with the league to enable gamers to more intimately interact with fans in virtual spaces. Sansar says it has been working with multiple professional teams from the […]
