Another day, another huge milestone for eSports.<\/p>\n
Razer, a Singaporean<\/a> global gaming hardware manufacturer established in 2005, is working its way into the eSports world after announcing its partnership with the Southeast Asia Games 2019 tournament last week.<\/p>\n The Southeast Asia Games will see 11 nations, including Vietnam, East Timor, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines<\/a>, Myanmar, Malaysia, Laos, Indonesia, Cambodia and Brunei, compete in over 60 sports and athletic pursuits.<\/p>\n eSports will feature in the Southeast Asia Games for the first time in 2019. The games are a biennial regional multi-sport event which will be hosted by the Philippines from 30 November to 11 December 2019.<\/p>\n Philippine Olympic Committee chairman, Alan Peter Cayetano, said the inclusion of esports as a medal event is an important step in the sport’s evolution on the global stage.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Philippines is the first host country to stage an esports tournament as a medal event. This lends credence to professional gaming as a true world-class sporting contest, as it engages a new generation of gaming fans,\u201d Cayetano said<\/p>\n \u201cRazer is a pioneer and a prime mover in esports, and we cannot ask for a better partner in this historic journey.”<\/p>\n As the official eSports partner of the games, Razer will work between video game publishers and organisers, developing the best way to feature eSports tournaments. The final line-up of games will be announced in coming months, but we’re expecting all of the top games, like League of Legends<\/a>, Dota 2, PUBG and Overwatch to feature prominently.<\/p>\n Razer’s founder and current CEO, Min-Liang Tan, has publicly lobbied the introduction of eSports at the SEA Games 2019. His company’s support of the sport’s introduction will have played a big part in its support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Razer, a Singaporean global gaming hardware manufacturer established in 2005, is working its way into the eSports world after announcing its partnership with the Southeast Asia Games 2019 tournament last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,518,517],"class_list":["post-6286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-razer","tag-southeast-asia-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14339,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286\/revisions\/14339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}