{"id":458,"date":"2019-09-18T19:35:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T19:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gamesround.com\/blog\/?p=458"},"modified":"2019-10-20T19:38:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T19:38:21","slug":"2-5-million-for-esports-platforms-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/2-5-million-for-esports-platforms-development","title":{"rendered":"$2.5 million for esports platforms development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\nThe theme of esports and pro-gaming scene is actual like never before. A lot of big tournaments have been held, even more matches are planned for the future. However, &#8220;<em>numerous brands have indicated a great disparity between what current tournament platforms offer and what brands expect<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; says XY Gaming CEO, Aaron Fletcher.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p> <em>&#8220;Through our simple, free, and one-click to enter and play platform, we enable gamers of all skill levels to take their gaming to the next level in a fair and secure environment.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p><cite> <em>XY Gaming co-founder and CEO Aaron Fletcher.\u00a0<\/em>  <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, the company announced a $2.5 million seed funding round for expanding its platform and to make esports more affordable for everyone. The main investors are KB Partners and Varga Capital.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>XY Gaming is an online global esports platform that has already hosted over 16 000 tournaments and 12,5 million games with more than 1 million people had involved. Right now it supports competitions in&nbsp;<em>League of Legends, Smite, Dota 2, StarCraft<\/em>. And with financial help, platform is going to add more games:&nbsp;<em>Counter-Strike: Global Offensive<\/em>&nbsp;,&nbsp;<em>Rocket League, World of Tanks, Overwatch<\/em>&nbsp;in the near future.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theme of esports and pro-gaming scene is actual like never before. A lot of big tournaments have been held, even more matches are planned for the future. However, &#8220;numerous brands have indicated a great disparity between what current tournament platforms offer and what brands expect&#8221; &#8211; says XY Gaming CEO, Aaron Fletcher.&nbsp; &#8220;Through our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}