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"Esports is a big and fast growing niche"
Alisher Usmanov invests in the construction of a stadium for computer games
05.04.2016, 17:57
How to invest in esports
Alisher Usmanov will build one of the world's largest cyberstadions.
This is reported by RBC with reference to the company ESforce, which will build the arena.
In the fall of 2015, the billionaire invested a record $100 million in Russian esports.
Cyber Stadium is a platform for holding competitions in computer games.
USM Holding, owned by billionaire Alisher Usmanov, has invested in the esports community Virtus.pro.
Part of this money will go to the construction of an arena near the Timiryazevskaya metro station.
Its area will exceed 5 thousand square meters, while the largest cyber stadiums in the United States occupy only 1.5 thousand square meters.
The tentative name of the building is Arena Moscow.
There will be tournaments, training of cyber athletes, meetings with fans and other entertainment events.
The opening is scheduled for October 2016.
The Russian esports market is actively growing, so the investment in the construction of the stadium will be justified, according to the analyst of the investment holding "Finam" Leonid Delitsyn.
"The investment, of course, is characteristic and requires such an investor as Usmanov.
This is certainly a niche, but it is a large and fast growing niche.
It is estimated that by 2018 it will grow three times and amount to about $2 billion, which, again, is not a very large market compared to the earnings of social networks or Google earnings, but the growth rate is high, and 2 billion by themselves are also not lying on the road," Delitsyn said.
Despite the positive signal that Usmanov sends to the market, so far the volume of investments is not comparable to investments in esports in other countries, Karen Kazaryan, chief analyst of the Russian Association of Electronic Communications, is sure.
"So far, this is still a fairly local niche thing.
Such investments should just scale this model and expand the audience to a more adult and solvent one.
This is not so much, of course, but so far, interest has been shown mainly by companies that are directly related to the sale and development of games," Kazaryan said.
According to SuperData Research, in 2015, the volume of the global esports market exceeded $600 million.
The total amount of prize funds of the competition was $42 million, and the total audience grew to 130 million people.
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