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Cyberport: How FC Barcelona became more intertwined with esports

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Forward of the Digital Leisure Management Discussion board (DELF), which was hosted by Cyberport Hong Kong, the corporate wrote for Esports Insider to debate the rising relationship between conventional sports activities and esports, with a selected deal with FC Barcelona.

Peter Yan, Chief Government Officer of Hong Kong Cyberport. Picture credit score: Cyberport

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The COVID-19 outbreak halted a lot of 2020’s anticipated occasions, such because the 2020 UEFA European Soccer Championship and the Tokyo Summer season Olympics, thus bringing the world of conventional sports activities to a standstill.

Nevertheless, the esports business has appeared to be largely proof against the antagonistic results of the pandemic resulting from its immediate transition into on-line codecs and a sudden spike in curiosity from conventional sports activities organisations.

“The epidemic has modified the best way we reside our life, accelerated the digital transformation in enterprise and pushed the fast growth of digital leisure, particularly esports,” mentioned Peter Yan, Chief Government Officer of Hong Kong Cyberport. “The emergence of cell video games, cloud gaming platforms, streaming media, and many others. generated sustained progress of the sector in 2020.”

FC Barcelona, one of many largest sports activities golf equipment on the earth, is a significant instance of a crew utilizing esports to reinforce its general model and strengthen the reference to its fanbase.

Final 12 months, the Spanish soccer membership set out with the goal of enhancing its esports content material by launching a gaming division, including that the business is a vital pillar to infiltrate into the leisure business. The membership additionally noticed a golden alternative to make use of esports and gaming to faucet right into a blossoming Asian market. 

Explaining the expansion of Asia’s gaming market, Yan said: “Newzoo analysis has revised their 2020 international sport market spending projection from $159bln to $175bln. The Asian-Pacific area has the very best market share and accounts for half of the worldwide shares in gaming market income and gamers.”

FC Barcelona noticed the identical alternative, increasing their fanbase in Asia with its strategic transfer to esports business, anticipating contribution in the direction of constructing its model in several goal markets akin to China.  This transfer generates new sources of revenue, while additionally permitting the membership to proceed specializing in the soccer aggressive setting. 

As esports being to develop and professionalise similarities between gaming athletes and sporting opponents have began to happen, each require correct bodily and psychological preparation, in addition to a brand new deal with the consuming habits of athletes. 

FC Barcelona additionally discerns similarities within the administration of its sports activities and esports groups,  with each divisions specializing in totally different areas akin to crew administration, competitions, fan interplay, content material era on social media, and international model popularity administration.

As such the soccer membership has created a division which has ready its self to step out of sport-centric titles. Presently, FC Barcelona competes in three titles eFootball Professional Evolution Soccer, Rocket League, and Blizzard’s Hearthstone. 

Picture credit score: FC Barcelona

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An FC Barcelona spokesperson commented: “There may be nonetheless nice progress potential for esports, due to its particularities, which may also be translated into the event of synergies that permit each classes to proceed rising. 

“Making an allowance for that audiences are, in a big half, totally different once we evaluate individuals who often devour esports content material and those that watch conventional sports activities, esports will help us not solely to attach with these new audiences, but additionally to draw these esports followers to the normal sports activities groups and vice versa.”

Disclaimer: This can be a sponsored piece by Cyberport

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