The global live streaming audience will also hit more than 728 million in 2021, growing 10% from 2020. A new global esports and live-streaming market report projects global esports revenue will reach $1.08 billion in 2021, up 14.5% from 2020 and $833.6 million of those revenues will come from media rights and sponsorships.
Overwatch is just one of many games propelling the esports industry. We’re thrilled to be teaming up with Hawaiʻi and local students to help make it all happen.” “Playing from Hawaiʻi unlocks online play between our East and West regions, which makes our competition stronger and our matches more exciting for fans globally. “Working with the University of Hawaiʻi has helped solve one of our biggest challenges as we continue to safely compete in online competition,” said Corey Smith, director of broadcast technology for the Overwatch League. “Anothing thing is that my teammates and I get to meet the gaming professionals that you see around the world as well, so it’s a surreal experience for Hawaiʻi to be a part of.”
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“I’m most excited about getting to work with professionals in a sense of how to run a large scale tournament where everyone in the world is watching,” said Alexine Niro, a UH Mānoa mechanical engineering senior and Overwatch player on UH Mānoa’s esports team. UH Mānoa students train with Overwatch League employees as part of the top Esports event holding tournament events at the campus. “For the university, there’s unprecedented opportunity for students to get as close as they can with a publisher and organizer to see how the tournament runs and how a publisher organizes events because this is basically a new form of worldwide entertainment,” said Nyle Sky Kauweloa, a communication and information sciences PhD student and head of the UH Mānoa Esports Task Force in the College of Social Sciences. The winning team for each of the four tournaments at UH will take home a $100,000 prize. They can be viewed live and on demand from the Overwatch League YouTube channel. Matches will take place May 6–8, June 10–12, July 15–17 and August 19–21. The upcoming tournaments will each feature two teams from its West region playing from UH Mānoa, while teams from East region in Asia will connect virtually and play head-to-head in real-time. Last year, due to COVID-19, OWL teams were rarely able to play head-to-head matches between teams in different regions because of the online latency difference. The competition in Hawaiʻi is an effort to bridge the gap to bring safe and online interregional play from its best teams.
OWL is the world’s first city-based esports league with 20 teams based in North America, Europe and Asia, and features the game Overwatch, a team-based action game developed by Blizzard Entertainment.
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Elite teams from the Overwatch League ( OWL) will participate in a series of four tournaments at UH Mānoa May–August 2021. The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa will host one of the fastest growing leagues in all of international esports.
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