Monthly Archives: July 2018

‘Fortnite’ Has An Esports Problem That’s Going To Be Tough To Solve
Epic stunned observers when they announced that they were moving into esports in a big way, offering $100 million in Fortnite esports prize pools this year alone, including $8 million dedicated to the next few weeks of a “Summer Skirmish” series, which pits streamers and top players against each other. But last week, the first Summer Skirmish Fortnite event was a disaster....
eSports Scoring Gets Scientific to Engage Millions of Players The thrill of competition. You feel it in your veins. The pulse of adrenaline, the yearning for glory, the desire to best all comers, the need to push your limits, the agony of defeat and the thrill of victory. eSports limits these emotions to a few...
Big Data is the Future of eSports
For much of the 20th century, simple counting stats dominated our understanding of a baseball player’s value. For hitters, it was runs batted in. For pitchers, it was wins. If you’ve seen the film Moneyball, you know what happened next: Starting in the middle of the 20th century, “sabermetrics”—derived from the acronym SABR, or Society for...
What worked (and what didn’t) about Overwatch League’s inaugural season?
Reaper’s shotguns have been swept away, the spawn rooms have been cleaned of every spray, and the last payloads have been pushed. Overwatch League’s inaugural season has nearly come to a close, with only the season playoffs remaining. With a bit of a break before that starts, this seems like the perfect time to dig...
Activision Blizzard: An Amazing Company Disrupting Entertainment And Shaping Its Future For Decades To Come
Activision Blizzard could be the best-positioned entertainment company to generate enormous returns for their shareholders consistently over the foreseeable future. Robert Kraft and Jeff Wilpon own Overwatch teams, which shows that the owners of the New England Patriots and the New York Mets are betting on the success of Esports. On December 3rd, 2014, ESPN...
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