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  • The festival will have a mix of professional and casual gamers, international celebrity gamer’s competition, cosplay competition and unlimited entertainment

    Dome Entertainment partners Nodwin Gaming to launch Echoslam

    By A Correspondent

     

    Dome Entertainment and Nodwin Gaming have announced their association to launch Echoslam, a unique e-sports, music, and entertainment festival. The festival will have a mix of professional and casual gamers, international celebrity gamer’s competition, cosplay competition and unlimited entertainment over a four month period.

     

    Speaking on the new initiative, SupritKarkera, Business Head, Events & IP, Dome Entertainment Pvt Ltd said: “We realised that the Indian events space is over-crowded and saturated with concerts and events which is celebrity led, expensive for fans, forced  sponsor connect and has very little experience to offer to fans. Therefore based on our research, expertise, insights and under the leadership of  Mazhar Nadiadwala, MD, we decided to create Echoslam – a mega e-sports festival, which is purely experience and memories led, fun, disruptive, affordable, secure, safe, convenient and engages all stakeholders seamlessly. Associating with a partner like Nodwin Gaming for our first experience under the IP vertical enables us to bring together our combined expertise and best practices to create a festival that aims to deliver a memorable experience for all. We hope that this is the first of many such experiences we collaborate with Nodwin Gaming for, and hope to strengthen our association further.’’

     

    Speaking on the collaboration, Akshat Rathee, Founder & Managing Director of Nodwin Gaming says, “We believe that the upcoming Echoslam event, being held across India, with its finale in Mumbai, is absolutely unique, with a horde of new experiences.”

     

     

  • Nazara, with its majority investment in Nodwin, is furthering its commitment of developing the esports ecosystem

    Nazara acquires majority stake in Nodwin

    By A Correspondent

     

    Nazara Technologies, which announced its foray into esports last year, has acquired a majority stake of 55 per cent in Nodwin Gaming.

     

    Said Manish Agarwal, CEO, Nazara Technologies: “Through this acquisition we aim to provide Indian esports enthusiasts a robust player and community orientated esports ecosystem, in which players can thrive, improve their skills and become top competitors at an international level.

     

    Added Nodwin Gaming CMD Akshat Rathee: “Esports is one of the fastest growing sports worldwide. This acquisition by Nazara Games adds to the credibility of Nodwin and opens up a wide vista of opportunities for Indian esports players to build careers domestically and Internationally. It strengthens our ability to provide our key stakeholders better experiences and bigger opportunities to engage with our community”

     

     

  • ESL India Premiership will be aired for the first time on Indian TV

    DSport partners Nodwin to broadcast Indian eSports league

    By A Correspondent

     

    DSport, a sports channel launched by Discovery Communications India, has partnered with Nodwin Gaming to showcase the flagship esports tournament in the country – ESL India Premiership. As a part of the partnership, DSport will telecast 90 minutes of action everyday starting yesterday (July 19), and will continue until December 2017.

     

    “We are excited to showcase eSports for the first time on television in India. The 90-minutes of intense gaming broadcast daily on DSPORT, for over 6 months, will catapult the popularity of eSports further in the country,” said, Karan Bajaj, Senior Vice-President & General Manager, Discovery Communications India.

     

    Added Akshat Rathee, Managing Director, Nodwin Gaming: “eSports is one of the fastest growing sports in the country and this broadcast of the ESL India Premiership on DSportis sure to elevate their popularity to a new level. eSports has been already announced as a medal event for the 2022 Asian Games and will also hopefully make it to the 2024 Olympics, so we hope this initiative will act as a first step towards bringing glory to the country on global multi-sports platforms.”

     

  • Local Indian esports industry to receive massive grassroots push from scene specialists

    ESL and Nodwin announce ESL India Premiership

    By A Correspondent

     

    ESL, leading esports company, in association with Nodwin Gaming is set to present India’s first annual tournament series, the ESL India Premiership. The event will host six online cups and three mega LAN events throughout the year, while boasting a monumental prize pool of over US$64,000, which translates to more than INR 42 lakhs in cash prizes.

     

    The ESL India Premiership is the largest tournament series organized not just in India, but in the entire South Asian region. The tournament series will present gamers the opportunity to participate as a team or an individual in online cups and win cash prizes, whilst qualifying for LAN events classified as “Challengers” and “Masters” that are organized on a world class level. At each of the two Challengers, a total prize pool of over INR 17 lakhs will be up for grabs, with the year-ending Masters finale paying out close to 20 lakhs to the champions alone.

     

    “ESL’s mission is to increase the popularity of esports across the globe. We are excited to help build up the local esports community in India with Nodwin. The country’s diverse communities, along with the fact that India embraces technology like no other place, makes it a perfect candidate,” said Ralf Reichert, Managing Director of ESL. “We are very excited to get started with the ESL India Premiership, and I personally can’t wait to experience it live, as I’m sure the crowd will be fantastic. In the meantime, we will ensure that we can deliver a world-class experience – both online and offline – to the local and international fans, and hope this tournament series helps foster growth in the region.”

     

    Akshat Rathee, Director and CEO of Nodwin Gaming, expressed, “Esports athletes are treated as celebrities worldwide and they earn millions of dollars every year by opting to embrace electronic sports as a career. This is unfortunately not yet the case in India. – But we hope to change this. The ESL India Premiership is the next big esports revolution in our country. We feel proud to state that our continuous efforts for the last three years have led to the establishment of such a fruitful brand for our community and for our country, and it’s only just getting started. Join us and play your way up to the top of the ESL India Premiership. Meet the stars and young talents. Action and excitement are guaranteed, it’s the biggest showdown in India to date.”

     

    The ESL India Premiership will feature three of the top esports titles worldwide: Dota 2, Counter Strike: Global Offensive and Hearthstone. It will also be the first esports championship in India to introduce the popular rhythm game series Just Dance, which is based on real time dancing. The online cups are set to start on 9th May, while the Challengers are set for the month of August and November, with the Masters in December. In addition to active participation, ESL has partnered with Twitch, the world’s leading social video platform and community for gamers, so that fans can enjoy the ESL India Premiership action live every day from 7-10pm on the Twitch ESL India Premiership Channel.