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How AWS Powered Global Power Rankings for LoL Esports Worlds 2024

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Whether you want to see how your favorite teams are trending or you’re seeking a better understanding of the competitive landscape, Global Power Rankings is the new way to track team strength for League of Legends Esports competition. They created the first calculated stat for esports in “Win Probability Powered by AWS”.

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Riot Games and AWS bring esports ‘Win Probability’ stat to 2023 League of Legends World Championships broadcasts

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Riot Games , the developer behind League of Legends (LoL), VALORANT , and Wild Rift , in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) will introduce ‘Win Probability’ within the upcoming 2023 League of Legends World Championship broadcast. Why introduce ‘Win Probability’ to LoL Esports ?

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EGX 2023 tickets now on sale

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Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Tickets are now on sale for EGX 2023, which will return to the ExCeL centre in London this October.

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Richard 'Faze Banks' Bengtson acquires 25.5% stake in Faze Media

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Bengtson initially was behind esports outfit Faze Clan, which he co-founded back in 2010. The company was acquired by GameSquare in October 2023 for $18.5 The company had laid off 20% of its staff in February 2023. million , a year after going public with a $725 million valuation. Read more

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Niko Partners: Gulf Cooperation Council markets accounted for $2.24bn in player spending in 2023

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A new report from Niko Partners, in partnership with the Saudi Esports Federation, says that markets in the Gulf Cooperation Council accounted for $2.24 billion in player spending in the Middle East and North Africa last year.

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HUDstats switches from OpenAI to Amazon Bedrock to advance esports storytelling using generative AI

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In the past decade, esports has evolved into a billion-dollar industry, with dozens of leagues, thousands of athletes, teams, franchises, and rising fan culture. Moving from there to building a whole AI-driven data infrastructure and generative AI storytelling solution for the esports industry felt pretty natural.

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Riot winds down Wild Rift esports outside of Asia

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This week, Riot Games announced that it has canceled esports leagues for Wild Rift outside of Asia. “In 2023, we will centralize the operation and focus of Wild Rift Esports in Asia, the biggest and most active mobile esports market in the world,” John Needham, Riot’s president of esports, said in the statement.

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