Last month our friends InteractiveSQUASH announced an eSquash league, an innovation – once again, the company has brought another interesting concept for the sport – but how will this translate into real-time Squash?
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Well, the esports industry is rapidly becoming big business lately with various sports leagues; the most notable one is Formula 1 – with players racing for a prize fund of $500,000. Now put that into a Squash context, it will be hard to imagine what the prize fund is going to be – we could be talking thousands.
However, this latest innovation by InteractiveSQUASH could see more people taking to the Squash courts but in the context of becoming a real-time player after progressing from a virtual player.
The ultimate digital Squash experience
With the eSquash concept, it is a new mixed reality sports experience combining real sports and digital gaming to provide lots of fun and action for all ages in a worldwide league system.
For any budding Squash players – regardless of playing ability, the eSquash league will them to gain a virtual experience of the sport, thus allowing them to gain more action, more virtual interaction, and more competition with a lower entry barrier to start playing Squash.
It is said, the concept of Squash in a mixed reality league based on a real sport, not only builds a growing demand for events and global competition for any player to participate in but can see the sport becoming more popular than ever.
Global events, US first and then Europe
The first eSquash tournament will take place in New York at the MSquash Squash Academy on their three courts, in March. The next eSquash tournaments will take place in the UK, the Netherlands, and Germany.
To sum up, the eSquash league is a welcome addition to the game of Squash and another key major milestone development in this new decade century – as it is going help the sport continue to grow in popularity and also appeal to people who have never played Squash too.
From a social perspective, it will bring people from across the world together, in addition, it could do wonders in a fitness context – you could see eSquash becoming an activity that helps people become active in social hubs, especially with the real-time play; let’s not forget Squash is the healthiest sport on the planet.
Even better, Squash pros could be getting in on the action with their own squads based on regional names or playing against one another – just for fun or some serious competition.
For more details search ESquash League
