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If you followed the Overwatch League’s first season, odds are good that you mostly did it on Twitch. Over the weekend, the grand finals got airtime on US television networks, too, and they didn’t exactly draw a payload of eyeballs.
On Sunday night local time, ESPN aired Evo 2017’s Street Fighter 5 finals. During Ryota “Kazunoko” Inoue’s match, in which he played as the character Cammy, ESPN requested that Kazunoko change the character’s costume from her default thong leotard to her formalwear DLC outfit. (Cammy does not wear pants in…
ESPN has been increasingly hitching itself to the esports bandwagon over the last few years, even going as far to start up their own editorial wing for the growing industry. But ESPN is first and foremost a television broadcaster, something video games doesn’t traditionally mesh with well. ESPN has had…
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