NEW DELHI: With a stated aim to revolutionize the competitive gaming ecosystem in India, Esports Collective (ESC) is all set to launch an esports fan engagement platform – FanSpace.
The platform will see a beta launch on August 15 as the nation celebrates its 75th year of Independence.
The application though will be going public on September 18.
The data-driven approach will aim to cater to the needs of esports enthusiasts by allowing them access to statistical data, match reports, and results of competitive games that are taking place in India at any given point.
“We dedicated several months in research to garner insights and understand the problems that lie in competitive gaming. As esports is heading towards a mainstream sport, there is a lack of authentic and one-stop availability of data, statistics and performance metrics of esports athletes and teams,” said Aryaman Kataruka, co-founder, FanSpace.
While the industry estimates the number of esports players to have doubled from 300,000 in 2020 to 600,000 in 2021 and esports teams also grew by over 50% from 60,000 in 2020 to more than 100,000 in 2021.
The total prize money as per the recent E&Y report in 2021 crossed Rs 200 million and there is also a meteoric rise in viewership, from 600,000 hours in 2020 to 2 million hours in 2021.
“With FanSpace’s holistic approach, we are deploying various industry-first technology initiatives on our platform to merge competitive telemetry data along with community engagement and provide fans with a one-stop destination for all the information that they require,” said Rohit Reddy, co-founder, FanSpace.
Founded in 2021, ESC has played a significant role in helping nurture the gaming culture in India. Now backed by Polygon, among other strategic investors, FanSpace will be the latest in its line of initiatives to “help solve some of the fan engagement issues” for the esports industry.
