In response to skyrocketing viewership that exceeded 3 billion hours in Q1 2020, Twitch launched a directory for the easy navigation of live esports tournaments. The page, simply titled “Esports” is a meeting place for all the events going on in the world of virtual sports. This directory is a savior for those who love esports and who miss traditional sports and need a replacement. Many of the Sports Techie community blog readers and followers are gamers before these Q1 numbers were compiled but will after COVID-19 forced more people inside, many more of you have caught the gaming bug. The Q2 eSports numbers will crush 3 billion by perhaps double the amount becaus...

Coronavirus shut down live NASCAR races but real-time virtual eNASCAR racing has rocketed to the forefront of viewership via the Pro Invitational iRacing Series Event. The Sports Techie community blog was an official NASCAR contributor and last year reported on iRacing’s network debut on NBCSN. It is no surprise to me that because of COVID-19 stay at home recommendations, NASCAR fans are flocking to their television sets to watch FOX and FS1 in record breaking fashion after last weeks most watch eSports event broke the previous TV record held by the American stock car auto racing company...

THE Sports Techie is me. I have been in the sports technology industry more than 25 years. In my birthday month of 2020, it will be 10-years since I launched the Sports Techie community blog, trusted resource and original online sports tech community in America. Visit https://sportstechie.net/.

Since then, I have made others believe I am a sports tech expert, social media influencer and respected entrepreneur though my passion for the business and highlighting topics that are important to me such as sustainability, animals, and robotics, as well as gaming and sport betting. This vision opened up a career path I never dreamed of when I was a kid growing up down the street from Microsoft in Redmond when it was a one-year old, startup software company...

Esports v Sports – Is the Future of Sport Online?

The Future of Sports Online by Betway.

Are you an eSports gambler, player, coach, trainer, executive, owner, or simply one of the millions of international fans worldwide because if you are, you are not alone by a long-shot, amigos. Watching video gamers play is as common an activity as going outside and playing the same sports with most all Gen Z and a large number of millennials. Esports is growing as fast as a super storm hurricane. Believe it or not, data indicates by 2020 fans will spend approximately 11 billion hours viewing this new technology enabled sport. Now consider 70 million interested fans are ready to use tech to stream the gaming major finals through online platforms...

Season 02 Grand Final to Feature Astralis vs. OpTic Gaming in Nationally Televised Championship, Today at 4 p.m. ET on TBS.

Season 02 Grand Final to Feature Astralis vs. OpTic Gaming in Nationally Televised Championship, Today at 4 p.m. ET on TBS.

ELEAGUE season two culminates today with the grand final broadcasting live from Turner Arena on TBS and streaming over the web on Twitch. At 4 pm ET, viewers can watch the eSports competition between Astalis and OpTic Gaming as they battle it out for the top prize money in the$1.1 million gaming tournament. The Sports Techie blog will be watching these skilled gamers perform as teams via the ELEAGUE LIVE Game Command video player technology. This respected league and international event here in Atlanta were created by Turner Sports and WME | IMG...

ELEAGUE Media Advisory: Overwatch Open Credential Application

The Overwatch Open tournament in Atlanta presented by ELEAGUE and FACEIT, are next weekend at Turner Studios ELEAGUE arena

The Overwatch Open eSports tournament in Atlanta presented by Blizzard, ELEAGUE and FACEIT are next weekend at Turner Studios ELEAGUE arena. Turner is accepting media credential applications for the event that runs from September 25 through 30, 2016. The state-of-the-art, eSport specific facility has revealing POV cameras as host of the tourney produced by the partnership between Turner and WME | IMG, and FACEIT, an independent competitive gaming platform...

ELEAGUE Season One Championship Set For This Afternoon – Fnatic vs. Virtus.pro – at 4 p.m. ET with Full Coverage on TBS and on Twitter.

ELEAGUE eSports championship featuring pro video gamers playing Valve’s popular Counter-Strike: Global Offensive game will broadcast today on TBS thanks to the sports tech collaboration between Turner and WME | IMG showcasing one of the world’s fastest growing sports, mainly watched by millennial and generation Z viewers, as well as Gen X old schooler’s like me and some of you. The Sports Techie community blog is excited to let our readers and social media followers know more about the culmination of season one of the professional eSports organization with a tense and entertaining matchup between Fnatic vs. Virtus...

ELEAGUE To Live Stream CES 2016 “Road To Vegas” eSports Championship

The ELEAGUE “Road to Vegas” debut at CES 2016 produced by Turner Sports and WME / IMG is live streaming the top two teams in the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive by Valve championship eSports league competition to fans around the world this Thursday, January 7 at 12:30 p.m. PST. The CS:GO stream features Lounge Gaming and OpTic Gaming (team members formerly part of Team Conquest) facing off in the best-of-three championship round streamed live over the FaceIT Twitch Channel. The Sports Techie community blog is excited to share this Turner Sports news about a new sports technology driven sport that had more than 1,100 teams compete in the qualifying round for the opportunity to earn the right to play in the “Roa...

Turner & WME | IMG Set to Make eSports Debut with Live On-Site Championship Round Coverage Featuring Valve’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

CES 2016 Turner Sports Business Forum And Live eSports Championship Coverage

Turner Sports announced plans to produce their largest CES 2016 Las Vegas presence ever. Their daylong business showcase features the inaugural Sports Business Forum and live eSports on-site championship round coverage of Valve’s game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive streamed live over the FACEIT Twitch Channel. The forum presented by Turner Sports in partnership with NextVR, includes a powerhouse panel headed by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and Baseball Commissioner Robert Manfred. Inside the NBA host Ernie Johnson and analysts Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Shaquil...

Strategic Partnership to Create Groundbreaking eSports League.

New TBS eSports League Launched By Turner, WME IMG

A new eSports League created by Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. and partner WME, IMG is set to begin broadcasting in 2016. Imagine live competitive gaming morphing into the mainstream on TBS and online. This unique fan experience will be enhanced via a custom eSports Operations Center with advanced technology located here in Atlanta at Turner Studios, the East Coast epicenter for competitive gaming. The Sports Techie community blog and especially our Twitter handle @SportsTechieNET have been an eSports champion as we are for Turner Sports. The future of gaming has never been more digital, lucrative or fun.

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