On Monday, Yahoo announced a partnership with Riot Games, a developer and publisher of video games including League of Legends, to give fans uLoL Rivalries by Yahoo eSports. The 10-team inaugural tournament, which kicks off November 4, will bring together some of the biggest rivalries in collegiate sports over a five-week span. University League of Legends is a […]
When broadcasting traditional sports there are cameras scattered across the stadium to give viewers many angles with the intentions of never missing a moment of the action. But how does this concept play out in the expanding world of eSports? So far with eSports broadcasts there is usually one single camera angle of the competition and that’s […]
If there seems to be an increasing amount of overlap between traditional sports and the eSports business, it’s because there really is. Traditional sports invading eSports remains one of the hottest sports topics this year, with yesterday’s news being the latest tale of a professional athlete investing in gaming. According to ESPN’s Sports Business Reporter, Darren […]
In 2015, the League of Legends Worlds championship tournament accumulated about 36 million unique viewers. A number that far exceeds the 14.7 million that watched the 2015 World Series and also beat out this past NBA Finals Game 7 which was announced as the most watched NBA game on ABC. Perhaps with these statistics in mind, Yahoo! Inc. […]
eSports has always been a medium that has done well with live streaming. With online video platforms like Twitch, eSports have grown up on the Internet rather than more conventional broadcast platforms. To further this digital environment for eSports, Twitter just added eSports to their ever-broadening array of live streamed sporting events, by hosting a feed of Eleague’s […]
