The NBA is going to Disney World before anyone even wins a championship, the NFL and NHL are going forward with plans to return to a new normal and even with Major League Baseball going about destroying itself, eSports’ cameo as a major sports betting option in North America figures to soon be over.
That doesn’t mean that the wildly popular, much-hyped next-greatest-thing-of-the-future will have failed when COVID-19 shutdowns end and eSports likely recedes as a betting market as compared to traditional sports. Because eSports’ time may not even have arrived yet.
Mark Balch, head of product and partnerships at Bayes Esports Solutions, a joint venture of Sportradar and Bayes Holding, sees tangible progress for the billion-dollar industry that can be accounted for in dollars and participation figures.
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