In this Episode of Calvinayre’s Shared Experience, Dr. Sam Liggero of Tufts Gordon Institute mentioned that dealing with disruptive technology and exponential change are the biggest challenge facing leaders today. Being familiar with these challenges can lessen the impact of getting caught off guard and be disrupted.
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PvPRO, one of the most exciting platforms for CS:GO games, tournaments and leagues, has called on Sportradar to distribute the audiovisual streams and data from all its upcoming competitions on an exclusive, worldwide basis. In addition, the leading provider of integrity solutions in the sport and esports sectors will be employing its award-winning Fraud Detection System across PvPRO’s competitions.
PvPRO, who will be kicking of their Electronic Sports Global Tour with a first €200,000 prize-money stop in Myknonos this week, have put pen to paper on a multiyear deal that focuses in on audiovisual streaming rights for the global betting market, plus data distribution rights for the betting as well as non-betting ecosystems. To protect all PvPRO’s competitions, Sportradar’s Integrity Services, which is one of the founding members of ESIC (the Esports Integrity Coalition), will monitor betting patterns from all relevant bookmakers and operators around the world in order to identify suspicious betting activity.
Speaking about the deal, PvPRO CEO Stamos Venios said: “Launching our first stop of our first ESG Tour is a super exciting development for us and we are delighted to have secured the involvement of top CS:GO teams such as SK, Virtus.pro and mousesports. To really kick the Tour off in style and with a statement of professional intent, we also wanted to bring on board the number one specialists in esports data, betting streams and integrity. Securing Sportradar’s support and expertise was really important to the credibility and distribution of the Tour and as we start this journey, we could not be happier to have Sportradar by our side”.
James Watson, Head of esports at Sportradar added: “Tournament organisers in the esports ecosystem are getting savvier about the opportunities and threats that they now face as interest and investment grows. Dealing with Stamos and his team has been a pleasure, as they really get what is at stake and we are really proud that they chose to trust us, our experience and our relationships to help them take the ESG Tour and their growing competition portfolio to the next level.”
September – Wild Crypto (SYMBOL: WILD), developers of a revolutionary international lottery and eGaming platform built upon blockchain technology, has completed its initial token sale in just 96 seconds.
Ahead of the main token sale on Tuesday, 5th September, which begins at 08:00 GMT+1, the pre-sale offered early access in a bid to raise 2,000 Ether.
It hit the target in just 96 seconds, with 265 transactions at an average transaction size of 7.547 Ether.
The Wild Crypto team, said: “We knew there was high demand for this Token Sale, but to complete our pre-sale in just 96 seconds displays the sheer scale of support for this project.
Innovators join in five-year agreement to expand global availability of data on Spanish football competitions
In a deal designed to broaden the availability of data from one of the world’s highest profile football leagues, LaLiga and Perform Group today announced the creation of the LaLiga Official Data Centre.
Jointly led by Perform and LaLiga, the newly created LaLiga Official Data Centre will be responsible for ensuring LaLiga maximizes the use of official match data across multiple sectors and channels. LaLiga will utilise Perform’s sports data collection, distribution and commercialisation expertise in the media, professional analysis and betting sectors, via Perform’s Opta and RunningBall data brands. The five-year agreement starts with the 2017/18 season.
Perform CCO Jacopo Tonoli said “We are delighted to be broadening our relationship with one of the world’s most exciting football leagues. The innovative partnership will see us working with La Liga to deliver the best quality sports data globally, across multiple sectors and channels. It gives LaLiga control over their data rights, with full access to the market-leading industry expertise and sales network of Perform. We are thrilled to be able to add LaLiga to our official data rights portfolio.”
A new report has exposed the legal, economic and political cost of America’s ill-advised online gambling trade dispute with Antigua and the prosecution of Bodog brand founder Calvin Ayre.
The report, written by Dr. Patrick Basham, Founding Director of the Washington- and London-based Democracy Institute, is titled How The WTO, Antigua & A Canadian Overcame American Hypocrisy On Free Trade. The report (read it here) bills itself as “a cautionary tale for America’s trading partners, foreign businesses, and fellow members of multilateral economic institutions.”
In the report, Basham lays bare “America’s mistaken campaign to bully, figuratively speaking, a tiny fellow member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and to persecute and prosecute foreign businessmen, in order to ensure the successful application of ill-conceived domestic legislation.”
ANTIGUAN DAVID v. AMERICAN GOLIATH
Del Mar’s annual summer meeting came to a close Sept. 4 and the most crucial issue facing the seaside racetrack saw a marked improvement.
A Portuguese student wins the WPT DeepStacks Main Event in that neck of the woods, and the World Poker Tour Champions Club member, Jordan Cristos, changes his mind about the shot clock.
A 24-year old student from Portugal has won the latest WPTDeepStacks Main Event, in the Casino Vilamoura, Portugal.
Francisco Lopes defeated a field of 250 entrants to take down the $65,521 first prize, after a heads-up victory over a man who is becoming a permanent fixture on the European WPTDeepStacks scene.
The Algerian, Omar Lakhdari, not only came to the final table sitting on a healthy chip lead worth 151 big blinds, but he also knew the way to the final two spots, after finishing runner-up in the WPTDeepStacks Main Event in Cannes back in June for €43,720 pay day.
A review of the current state of World Cup qualification for the 2018 tournament in Russia, including Belgium becoming the sixth nation to book their space.
Only three weekends into the new English Premier League (EPL) season, a cavernous crack appears in the fixture list to make way for the 2018 World Cup qualification process.
We know that Russia has already qualified as hosts, but who else has booked a spot in the greatest sporting event in the calendar?
Let’s take a look, shall we?
Three tales with ties to partypoker, including news of another MILLIONS event, World Series of Poker Europe qualifiers, and a winner in the inaugural DT1000 in partypoker’s official live poker room Dusk Till Dawn.
With all the focus on the $35m partypoker POWERFEST this weekend, a few pretty significant tweets managed to slip through various nets that the online poker room giant has cast throughout the poker world.
The first concerns what could potentially become the largest-ever live poker festival (regarding prize money) in Canada’s live tournament history. The tweet, which appeared on partypoker ambassador Kristen Bicknell’s Twitter account, shows an infographic mentioning a $10m GTD MILLIONS event at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal.
The new event, scheduled to take place in May 2018, is double the CAD$5m Guarantee partypoker LIVE put on the side of the tin of the Playground Poker Spring Classic partypoker Million North America in May of last year.
It came down to the next-to-last race of the 2017 Ellis Park meet that ended Sept. 4, but 2016 meet-leader Steve Asmussen repeated as leading trainer, edging 2015 winner Brad Cox 18 wins to 17.
The Asian-facing online gambling company 12BET, and Indian media and entertainment outfit Star India pick up sponsorship deals at two very different ends of the sporting spectrum.
12BET continues to mop up the sponsorship deals in the minor leagues of professional sport with another World Cup partnership signed in blood this week.
The online gambling company is the official betting and gambling sponsor of the 2018 International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Team World Cup.
The event billed as Table Tennis Coming Home takes place at London’s Copper Box Arena, the home to the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games, Feb 22-25, 2018.
In its two years of operation, Ruis Racing has done its best work during the summer at Del Mar.
Doug O’Neill and Reddam Racing already had one contender in the 3-year-old division entering Labor Day, but before the holiday was over, they may have found another.
Herosphere, an Austrian-based eSports wagering site, is preparing to give Bitcoin and Ethereum a run for their money with a competitive gambling currency called HEROcoin. For those who missed out […]
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The Saratoga meet titles for 2017 go down the to the wire. Todd Pletcher takes his 13th trainer’s title with 40 wins, which ties Chad Brown’s mark set last year. Jose Ortiz wins second straight title at the Spa.
NYRA reports the 2017 Saratoga Race Course meeting handled a record $676 million in all-sources handle, eclipsing last year’s mark by 4.4%.
Nordic online gambling operator Betsson AB has abruptly parted ways with its CEO, reportedly due to a disagreement over the company’s black-market operations in Turkey.
On Monday, Betsson issued an official statement saying its board of directors and CEO Ulrik Bengtsson (pictured) had agreed that Bengtsson “shall leave the position as President and CEO” of the company. The notice added that Bengtsson “has chosen to leave his position immediately.”
Betsson’s board has appointed chairman Pontus Lindwall as its temporary CEO until it can find a permanent replacement. Lindwall was Betsson’s CEO until March 2016, when Bengtsson assumed the CEO mantle and Lindwall shifted to chairman.
Board member Patrick Svensk will assume the chairman’s role until further notice, while Betsson’s chief commercial officer Jesper Svensson has been appointed acting CEO of Betsson’s Malta subsidiary.
Typhoon Hato couldn’t keep most of Macau’s casinos down for long, as they largely rebounded quickly from the worst such storm to hit the area in 53 years. But the […]
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Robert Baker and William Mack’s Sporting Chance bolted to the outside in deep stretch, but still held on to win the $350,000 Hopeful Stakes (G1) over favored Free Drop Billy at Saratoga Race Course Sept. 4.
During Saratoga Race Course’s closing day Sept. 4, Terry Hamilton’s Heart to Heart asserted himself as the pacesetter coming off the first turn in the $250,000 Bernard Baruch Stakes (G2T), and crossed the finish line unpressured.