By throwing enough money around to partner with some of the big esports companies they could regularly fill them up with a lot of people. And that list of cities is a short list of where these things happen.
But they’ll be competing with Casinos and existing convention centers. And there’s apparently a little crash going on with that end of the esports thing. Friend of mine works for the broadcast/video end of Blizzard’s esports operation. Last I saw him, he said everyone is getting fired and the scale of events keeps getting smaller. Apparently there isn’t as much money in it as people expected. The game publishers are apparently making money out of it, but all of the public event type stuff is apparently a money hole.
He was hoping legal sports gambling in Atlantic City and a few other places was gonna kick it back up again. But all his stateside events were moving to smaller venues, and had pretty much moved exclusively to Vegas and AC. that was back in June though.
