The majority of bets placed on esports tournaments occur during live games, according to new statistics from esports odds provider Oddin.gg. The firm’s data was taken from three major esports events in May 2022 – PGL Major Antwerp 2022: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, ESL One Stockholm 2022: Dota 2 and Mid-Season Invitational 2022: League of Legends. Based on the statistics, Oddin.gg …
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Global esports, odds feeds, risk management and iframe solutions provider Oddin.gg has confirmed a new strategic collaboration this week with upcoming North American technology firm SB22. Under the terms of the partnership, SB22 will benefit from implementing Oddin.gg’s iframe solution, described by the latter as a “state-of-the-art product designed to enhance sportsbooks with truly engaging esports betting offerings”. SB22’s mission …
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Esports data and odds provider PandaScore has published a comprehensive whitepaper this week that sets out to provide operators with everything they need to know about capturing betting’s greatest emerging market, esports. Titled “How to build a successful esports betting product”, the whitepaper walks operators through the critical components of esports betting, starting with the opportunity the vertical presents before …
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Extending their existing partnership until 2023, data provider Bayes Esports and production firm ESL Gaming have embarked on a joint mission to professionalise the esports data ecosystem beyond global data distribution. The two companies initially started working together back in 2019 to create what they describe as a far-reaching network within the esports data industry. Since then, more than 150 …
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“This year, I wont say that things can’t get any crazier. Because the last time I did, it was at the end of 2020, and then we got 2021 served”. That was a statement made by Amir Mirzaee, Bayes Esports’ COO & Managing Director, as he set out plans to ‘go in hard’ to grow the business. Speaking to SBC …
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Betway has renewed its partnership with CSGO esports series BLAST Premier until the end of the 2023 season to continue to collaborate on a range of activations. The extension of the deal means that Betway’s branding will appear across all seven BLAST Premier events taking place in 2022, whilst the gambling firm will also own the ‘Power Picks Prediction’ segment …
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Pronet Gaming CEO Alex Leese looks towards the future as South America’s biggest country, Brazil, aims to get on track with regulated sports betting. While England and Brazil fans alike licked their wounds as losing finalists this summer, operators based in the UK could at least fall back on a very positive tournament in Euro 2020 in terms of revenues …
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When the coronavirus pandemic hit, esports was one of the only verticals which was able to continue “as normal”. But as restrictions are starting to lift, and we edge closer to a new year, Ashley Washington (pictured below) – Senior Product Owner at Bayes Esports – asks whether 2022 is going to be a big year for esports betting. The COVID-19 …
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Esports will continue to grow beyond COVID, writes Mark Balch, VP Esports Betting Services at Bayes Esports, however we must keep an eye out for danger lurking on the horizon. To kick off the article, we should more clearly define the broad term of esports now. For betting companies, there are basically two types of esports; hardcore video game competition …
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There are two ways of approaching the stream and live data disconnect in esports, said PandaScore CEO Flavien Guillocheau, but neither are ‘magic’ solutions. As a follow up to this analysis of the relationship between latency and stream delay in esports, he went even further into the concept’s ‘crazy’ betting climate, where players are seeing action on their screens that …
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