Live Betting on eSports Possible as PVP Live Stream Looks to Broadcast Games

With a handful of online gambling companies offering betting on eSports, we could soon see live wagering similar to that offered during Football, Basketball and other professional and college sports.

PVP Live has said it will be gathering data to determine an ideal tournament schedule for live streaming.

“No one is building a regular season where everybody plays everybody, with consistent broadcasts leading to a championship,” PVP Line CEO Casey Wehr told Re/Code this week.    

From Re/Code:

Rather than trying to reform the tournament system, though, PVP hopes to make it easier to follow and grok the often irregularly timed pro gaming events that happen throughout the year. In addition to aggregating news articles from websites like The Daily Dot and theScore, PVP has a data science team cataloguing and organizing data on nearly every “pro-level” (having a prize pool of more than $2500, Wehr said) tournament for the games it tracks.

- Alistair Prescott, Gambling911.com