{"id":181779,"date":"2020-11-05T17:28:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T16:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=181779"},"modified":"2020-11-05T17:28:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T16:28:09","slug":"impressive-growth-for-fiba-esports-open-participation-set-to-more-than-double-for-second-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/impressive-growth-for-fiba-esports-open-participation-set-to-more-than-double-for-second-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressive growth for FIBA Esports Open, participation set to more than double for second edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FIBA, the International Basketball Federation, has announced an\u00a0expanded\u00a0field of\u00a038 national teams\u00a0taking part in the\u00a0second edition of the\u00a0FIBA Esports Open, set to take\u00a0place over three weekends with seven regional conferences.<\/p>\n

Seventeen national teams took part in the first international esports competition, the three-day\u00a0FIBA Esports Open 2020<\/a>\u00a0held in June.\u00a0The\u00a0FIBA Esports Open\u00a0has received substantial interest from its National Federation members and for the second edition, conferences will take place across all FIBA regions, with a combined total of six days\u2019 worth of online action.<\/p>\n

Each team will consist of seven players: five on the court and two reserves. The PS4 Game will be played remotely on NBA 2K21, using the Pro-AM mode. Teams are once again allowed to have full customization of player avatars, uniforms and arena designs.<\/p>\n

Teams will be divided into one of the following conferences: Africa, North and Central America, South America, Europe, Middle East and Southeast Asia. Conferences have been set up according to geographical conditions and server distributions.<\/p>\n

Africa<\/a>,\u00a0Middle East<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Southeast Asia<\/a>\u00a0conferences will be played on November 14-15, while the Europe conference is set for December 12-13. The North and Central America, and South America conferences will take place on December 19-20. Finals will take place\u00a0in\u00a0the FIBA Esports Open\u00a0II\u00a0in all conferences, with a best of three format.<\/p>\n

“The first-ever FIBA Esports Open was\u00a0an important milestone.\u00a0The growing interest received from our National Federations is additional motivation for FIBA to further develop esports,\u00a0and we are very enthusiastic\u00a0for\u00a0this second edition,” said FIBA Secretary General Andreas Zagklis.<\/p>\n

As was the case for the inaugural FIBA Esports Open, this entire series will be produced from the FIBA Esports Studio in Riga, Latvia, with 54 hours of live content being streamed on FIBA’s Facebook, Twitch and YouTube channels. Each game will be available online with live commentary in English, as well as a daily show featuring up to 12 games.<\/p>\n

Australia, Argentina, Italy, the Philippines and Saudi Arabia<\/a>\u00a0topped their respective conferences and emerged victorious among the 17 participating nations from around the world in June and will battle it out again in the coming months.<\/p>\n

To find out more visit the FIBA Esports Open website\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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“The first-ever FIBA Esports Open was\u00a0an important milestone.\u00a0The growing interest received from our National Federations is additional motivation for FIBA to further develop esports,\u00a0and we are very enthusiastic\u00a0for\u00a0this second edition,” said FIBA Secretary General Andreas Zagklis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[323],"tags":[13697],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-181779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-fiba-esports"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181779"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=181779"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=181779"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=181779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}