The United States Navy continues tꦺo move into esports with new ESL, Twitch, 💜and DBLTAP partnerships. An additional deal with Evil Geniuses will see the premier American esports organization hand-pick a competitive 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team of US Navy꧅ sailors. Twitch and DBLTAP will produce content surrounding the team, including an episodic series comparing the Navy’s CS:GO team with Evil Geniuses’ professional players.
The Navy, among other branches of the US Armed Forces, have made pushes in recent years to reach the esports ♑audience. The Air Force partnered with tournament organizer Eleague in 2018, sponsoring multiple CS:GO tournaments including the $1,000,000𒅌 Boston Major. The USAF also partner🌸ed with the CS:GO team of American esports organization Cloud9 that same year. The Army has Call of Duty events, and has fielded teams in multip🍬le games. The US Navy also 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:pulled away from television advertising, including highly coveted Super Bowl ad slots, in favor of esports tournament streams in D🤪ecember of last year.
The ESL partnership allows the US Navy host Bring Your Owꦜn Computer LANs at DreamHack Open events, the first of which to💛ok place in Anaheim, California, earlier this month. The next Open event will feature Starcraft II, Magic: The Gathering Arena, and fighting game tou🔥rnaments in Dallas, Texas, in May. The partnership also brings LAN stations to these DreamHack tournaments, where fans can play against Naval officers in a variety of games.
The Navy’s exp❀anded partnerships will seꦬe the branch build a CS:GO team full of their own sailoܫrs. They have tapped American esports organization Evil Geniuses for help, who themselves field a professional CS:GO team th𓆉at currently stands as the team in the world.
Evil Geniuses will aid the Navy in their tryout process, choosing the best sailors for the team. Twitch and DBLTAP will produce content around this, with the former creating a six-episode series that cဣompares the Navy’s sailors with the Evil Geniuses players. DBLTAP will be creating “Role Comparison” videos, which compare the Navy’s roles with that of top-tier esports talent.
“It’s a real excitement to be partnered with 🅰the US Navy to help them reach the new generation of servicemen and women,” said Michael Murphy O’Reilly, Director of Esports and Gaming at Minute Media, the parent company of DBLTAP. “We hope that our content will help young esports fans realize that there is more to esports players and Navy squadrons than they might think. As more branches of the military get involved with esports it's great to see the US Navy focus on bringing unique and original content that will engage fans.”
This p♕roject looks to continue throughout 20꧙20, with the Navy’s CS:GO teaဣm making its debut appearance alongside Evil Geniuses members at Twitc𝄹hCon San Diego in September.
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