The recent Overwatch League finals were held at the Barclay’s Center. The event which had a viewership number totalling almost 10 million is definitely competing with traditional sports in many aspects. One of the biggest problems for esports was how there is a lack of a unifying body. With Overwatch League, the mainstream media and investors have a point of contact which helps them to put forth their business proposals. This is one of the reasons for the success of OWL as a whole. The overwatch league was seeing a very high rate of success when it comes to the reselling of tickets at the venue
esports is starting to really show some serious demand in the US as a ticket buy. Here are secondary ticket get-ins on @VividSeats for Barclays Center events. Saturday’s Overwatch Finals beat out get-ins for Bruno Mars, Elton John & WWE. pic.twitter.com/K3SyQ082BD
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) July 27, 2018
