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ESP Gaming has announced the World Showdown of Esports (WSOE), a tournament series in Las Vegas, which will showcase the best games, players and teams across the globe in the world of Mixed Martial Arts. It will take place in between the major tournaments and broadcast live from ESP Gaming’s new state-of-the-art PokerGo Studio. Betting will be available at BetOnline.
From VentureBet.com:
To celebrate the announcement, the WSOE (in partnership with esports organization Auzom) will present a special live event, The PUBG Pan-Continental, broadcast live on Twitch July 14 and July 15 from the PokerGo Studio at Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, with special guests and players from Team Vitality, Team Envy, OpTic Gaming, Tempo Storm and more competing in PUBG. That competition will feature a $100,000 prize pool.
“This is our owned-and-operated league, and we’re using PUBG to kick off our World Showdown of Esports,” said ESP Gaming CEO Jeff Liboon in an interview with GamesBeat. “We’re going to structure this around rivalries and 1-to-1 matchups. We want to bring the most relevant and fresh matchups to esport space.”
Veteran esports journalist and former ELeague host Richard Lewis has been brought on as director of talent.
“With the WSOE, we’re completely flipping the script on the traditional esports tournament format in a way that has never been done in competitive gaming,” said Lewis, in a statement. “The WSOE’s unique format allows us to create the matches that competitors and fans want to see and that the competitors want to engage in. We look forward to re-imagining and growing the sport of competitive gaming and crowning our first WSOE Champion this fall.”
- Mary Montgomery, Gambling911.com
