The Esports Battle League, a professional geo-based franchise league launching in summer 2018 that uses a unique, patent pending multi-title competition format announced a cooperation with independent and agnostic media platform, WHAM. The joint venture marks the first media deal for EBL, and the first esports distribution deal for WHAM.
Gary Kleinman, WHAM Founder, commented a deal: “We love the EBL vision. Their integration of esports and lifestyle content is a perfect fit for WHAM. The EBL represents a truly fresh and different perspective on franchise esports competition”.
Scott O’Leary, EBL Co-founder and CEO added: “The number of people involved in the lifestyle and culture of gaming is expanding at an exponential rate, with yearly revenue growth projecting it to be a 1.5 billion dollar business by 2020. As such, we are very excited to become a lasting part of this flourishing community with the launch of our initial season.
“We look forward to streaming intense esports matches paired with exclusive shoulder content that includes in-depth player interviews, gameplay analysis, and specials highlighting the road to the championship each widely distributed across the extensive WHAM Network, which is dedicated to creating and distributing quality content in this space”.