Awful Announcing
ELEAGUE Super Punch will be a three-hour Twitch broadcast from Mondays through Thursdays, but an hour-long TBS broadcast surrounded by two complementary Twitch hours on Fridays.
ELEAGUE will be producing three EA SPORTS FIFA 20 Ultimate Team (FUT) Champions Cup events this year, one in Atlanta and two in Europe. They'll also be providing a lot of EA SPORTS FIFA 20 Global Series coverage on TBS.
"We just started to really dive into where the places are where the sports fan was at that might also have some crossover with the gaming community."
One esports comedy project involving Big Bang Theory executive producer Johnny Galecki and writer/co-executive producer Anthony Del Broccolo is in development at NBC, while another one involving Rick Fox and Dan Koppelman has a put pilot order at CBS.
The NBA/China dispute isn't the only one going on, as Blizzard's punishments for pro-Hong Kong protester content have also come under fire and led to a lot of notable backlash.
The first two episodes of this new series will air after TBS' MLB postseason coverage on Oct. 4 and Oct. 11.
ESPN has decided to postpone the broadcast of Apex Legends, a battle royale first-person shooter.
Chargers' WR Keenan Allen and Cowboys' DE DeMarcus Lawrence are threatening to boycott Madden '20 over anger about their ratings, with Lawrence also calling for Cowboys' fans to join that boycott.
ELEAGUE's next event involves Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment’s Mortal Kombat 11. The finals of their tournament will be broadcast on ELEAGUE's Twitch channel, and later aired in a highlights package on TBS.
ELEAGUE will host a FIFA tournament in February and another one in May.
This sounds like a small investment for now, but under the right circumstances, it could maybe lead to HQ Trivia-branded content for ESPN+ or ABC.
"Andy could not be any worse than he is right now."
Nichols' take on professional esports was the hottest of the week.
Early reports show that at least four people have been killed and 11 people were shot at the Madden tournament.
