“Cybersport is winning eyeballs across the globe.  Analysts estimate that it will gain parity in viewing audiences with regular sporting events by the end of 2018. And no wonder, besides the magnetic attraction of gaming, an average person without outstanding physical abilities can easily become a top cybersport performer,” said Yegor Voronin, General Manager of Moscow-based production company, LiveSignal.Ru.  Voronin was speaking after the announcement that his production company has selected Slomo.tv to provide its Blackjack AT/3G replay servers for this summer’s Warface Championship, one of Europe’s leading cybersport events.

EVS, the leader in live video production technology, has provided a range of tools from its ecosystem of Connected Live technology and Creative Live solutions to BT Sport for the live coverage of the 2017 UEFA Champions League final.

PMU had invited everyone to its stand at Viva Technology 2017 where the drone races were organised between four professional pilots installed in the PMU Lab. 5km away, the Parrot Bebop 2 FPV Quadricopters were operating at the ParisLongchamp racecourse. The races took place on the straight in front of the grandstands over a length of 100 metres, marked out with obstacles to make it as close as possible to the world of horse racing.

Perform, a leading digital sports content and media group, has selected Dalet Galaxy as the Media Asset Management and Orchestration platform for the launch and daily operations of its ground-breaking live and on-demand sports platform DAZN in Japan. DAZN, which launched in Japan in August last year, is a rapidly growing subscription-based OTT provider of multimedia sports content.

The League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational (MSI) was held in May in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo in Brazil, produced by the Esports Broadcast team at Riot Games, a videogame developer and publisher. The event—the first major international League of Legends tournament in Brazil—attracted thousands of fans onsite and many more online. The event was a mid season tournament with winners from regional leagues, whose regional places at the end of their regular season dictate whether or not they qualify to face off for the 2017 League of Legends World Championships, set to be held in four separate locations across China in November of 2017.

For the only Asia-Pacific event on the IAAF Diamond League’s calendar of track and field events, Chinese broadcaster Xiamen Media Group (XMG) deployed multiple EVS technologies for the production of the Diamond League Shanghai – also known as the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix.

UK-based Digital Tree Media started off as a small media company, serving schools and colleges with basic media requirements. It’s grown to provide progressively larger, event-based productions. One project saw the company producing a two-week long, Olympics-style festival of sport, covering multiple competitions in different remote arenas, using an IP workflow – in 2013, long before most others had attempted live video over a LAN. The company is quite familiar with network delivery of high-traffic, live data streams. Digital Tree Media operates CubeCraft Games, the world’s second-largest server for the world’s most popular online video game, with hundreds of millions of players: Minecraft.

ATP Media, the broadcast arm of the ATP World Tour, today announced the launch of a new remote production venture in partnership with IMG Studios in London that has revolutionised the production across the ATP World Tour 500 tennis tournaments. The new delivery and production model has significantly enhanced the coverage of the ATP World Tour 500 tournaments, providing broadcasters with the ability to air matches with unprecedented flexibility. For the first time, all singles matches from the ATP World Tour 500s are now being produced, resulting in more than 400 matches being made available to broadcasters.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) announced a long-term technology partnership at an official signing ceremony in New York with IOC President Thomas Bach and Brian Krzanich, Intel’s Chief Executive Officer.

Intel will join “The Olympic Partner” (TOP) worldwide sponsorship programme, becoming a Worldwide TOP Partner through 2024.

This partnership will transform the Olympic Games and the Olympic experience.

EVS, the leader in live video production technology, is providing video assistant referee (VAR) solutions to a range of high profile sports this summer, kicking off with the British and Irish Lions rugby tour of New Zealand. Its Xeebra multi-camera review system was also courtside for the FIBA EuroBasket Women 2017 basketball tournament and will be used throughout the 2017/18 Polish Ekstraklasa football league season.

On the 1st July, CANAL+ organizes a boxing event in Evian-Les-Bains in coordination with UNIVENT BOXE. After a successful live test on June 2 for the boxing show « La Conquête », NETCOSPORTS partners again with EUROMEDIA, subsidiary from the same group, and PIQ to officially integrates its solution for the first time. Two matches are broadcasted using the new data-sync & integration service developed by NETCO: Diallo vs Donfack and Goulamirian vs Williams.

Two-time Red Bull Air Race titleholder Kirby Chambliss put his 2017 season on track with a confident win at the World Championship stop in Budapest on Sunday. Canada’s Pete McLeod was scintillating in second, while Japan’s Yoshihide Muroya retained the head of the overall standings by clinching third.

IBC’s Platform Futures conference strand on Sunday 17 September will examine the expanding business opportunities surrounding traditional and alternative sports coverage and rights management, with a focus on the crucial topic of fan engagement. Leading figures from major broadcasters, innovative sports organisations and sports marketing companies will examine how to create, distribute and monetise sports content that enhances fan experiences, particularly for live sport, while providing new revenue streams. The conference strand will also highlight the exciting opportunities for broadcasters in the burgeoning eSports sector, which is forecast to generate more than £1bn in global revenue by 2020*.

The Federation Internationale de Natation (FINA) has partnered with Deltatre, the world’s leading sports media technology provider, to launch FINAtv (finatv.live), a new OTT subscription service featuring exclusive and comprehensive live and on-demand coverage of FINA’s marquee events. FINAtv premieres with all the action from The FINA World Championships – Budapest 2017. It will be available 24/7 on mobile, tablet (iOS and Android), desktop and TVs via AirPlay and Chromecast.

That’s why, as the 17th FINA World Championships get under way this summer in Budapest, OMEGA will bring its long experience in time­keeping and data handling to the competition, ensuring precision and performance that is worthy of the world’s greatest aquatic ath­letes. When so much depends on accuracy, we are committed to nothing less than perfection. Held between July 14 and 30, the FINA World Championships are the premiere event on the swim­ming governing body`s calendar. Started in 1973, they were once held every four years between the summer Olympic Games. However, since 2001, they have taken place every two years.