Twitch CEO Sees Game Tournaments Vying With Major Leagues
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Twitch Interactive Inc., the video-game streaming site acquired last week by Amazon.com Inc., wants to bring its online tournaments, dubbed e-sports, into the major leagues.
“A huge opportunity for Twitch is taking a step up and thinking how can we really blow this e-sports thing up,” Chief Executive Officer Emmett Shear said yesterday in a Bloomberg Television interview. “There’s a potential for e-sports to be listed in that same pantheon as football and baseball in the states.”