Tag Archives: Rahul Sood

CSGO player opens lawsuit against Valve over ‘illegal gambling’

SBC News CSGO player opens lawsuit against Valve over 'illegal gambling'

The company behind Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Valve, has been accused by a player of allowing and facilitating illegal wagering on the game. There are numerous sites in which players can trade and wager skins, that is in-game items, which are worth substantial amounts of money. Sites such as CSGO Lounge, CSGO skins, and CSGO Diamonds allow this trading and Valve …

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The formation of the World Esports Association and what it means

SBC News The formation of the World Esports Association and what it means

Following a press conference on Friday we now know some actual facts about the World Esports Association (WESA), what it’s about and who’s involved.  The executive board consists of ESL Co-Founder Ralf Reichert, Fnatic’s Wouter Sleijffers, Ninjas in Pyjamas CEO Hicham Chahine and Senior VP at ESL Sebastian Weishaar. There’s also Pietro Fringuelli, from law firm CMS Hasche Sigle, who will act as Interim …

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Unikrn’s Rahul Sood calls for regulation of esports skin betting

SBC News Unikrn's Rahul Sood calls for regulation of esports skin betting

In a poignant blog post about skin betting on Unikrn published yesterday, co-founder and CEO, Rahul Sood, has highlighted what’s wrong in esports betting, especially in regards to underage gambling and top Twitch streamers who are wagering in-game virtual items that have real monetary value. According to Eilers Research skin betting is close to $5bn (£3.4bn) in terms of money wagered in 2016. …

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Unikrn Ups the Ante with new ways to become Unikoin rich

SBC News Unikrn Ups the Ante with new ways to become Unikoin rich

Gaming and esports company Unikrn has today announced that over 30 million Unikoins, the virtual tokens on its platform, have been used to wager on esports matches and tournaments worldwide. Never one to miss out on a reason to celebrate, Unikrn is introducing Connekt, a fun, new way for users to earn more of these Unikoins by playing three of today’s most popular titles; League …

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ICE 2016 – Esports dissected

SBC News ICE 2016 - Esports dissected

The Betmarkets agenda boasted an impressive collection of speakers dissecting esports across three separate talks at ICE on Wednesday morning. Unikrn Founder Rahul Sood skyped from Seattle, whilst Newzoo’s Peter Warman, Fnatic CEO Wouter Sleijffers and other notable figures discussed the growing industry at length with a focus on how it is vastly dissimilar to traditional sports, and the importance of appreciating this …

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eSports 2015 SBC report – Part 2

SBC News eSports 2015 SBC report - Part 2

Following Part 1’s assessment of the key occurrences in the eSports industry from a business perspective in the opening six months of 2015, here’s more of the same for the latter part of the year. August Ashton Kutcher became the latest high profile investor in eSports as he joined billionaire Mark Cuban in investing in Unikrn. Kutcher has a successful …

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Unikrn announce all female professional eSports team

SBC News Unikrn announce all female professional eSports team

The latest news from eSports and entertainment firm Unikrn is the announcement of the creation of Team Unikrn, an all female CS:GO professional eSports team.   The team is made up of players from across Europe; these include Melania “Gina” Mylioti (Greece), Julia “Julie” Strunkowski (Germany), Perrine “Lalità” Allesiardo (France), Sophia “Kim” Benfakir (France) and Camilla “Parmaviolet” (UK). Unikrn CEO …

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Scott Longley – Eyes Wide Open: eSports taps into a new world of betting

SBC News Scott Longley - Eyes Wide Open: eSports taps into a new world of betting

Reporting from last week’s EIG Berlin Expo for SBC, Scott Longley examines the commercial contexts and conditions for betting operators targeting competitive eSports, a leading theme and discussion on the EIG floor… ________________________ The main issues of the debate around the phenomenal rise of eSports and what it might mean for gambling companies looking at leveraging that interest were given …

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Unikrn Introduces first competitive integrity certification program for eSports

SBC News Unikrn Introduces first competitive integrity certification program for eSports

Competitive eSports platform Unikrn has partnered with multi-player gaming league FACEIT, to create the world’s first competitive integrity certification program for eSports. The program aims to establish industry-wide best practice combined with competitive structures and policies to ensure legitimacy in eSports match results. FACEIT becomes the first league to implement the certification program to its multi-player games. Unikrn governance further …

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