PlayStation is Acquiring Repeat
The world of esports has seen a significant growth over the years with the emergence of franchised leagues and competitive gaming organizations partnering up with huge brands to create insane collaborations. Sony sees the value in the competitive gaming scene, and in an early afternoon announcement, it has been announced that esports platform Repeat.gg will be joining the PlayStation family.
Repeat.gg is a platform that hosts a bevy of tournaments in titles such as Fortnite, League of Legends and Call of Duty: Warzone. Alongside plenty of free or paid entry tournaments, Repeat also contains «automated result tracking» for an easier method of tracking player stats in said tournaments. Sony has been working hard to grow the competitive gaming scene on the PlayStation platform by hosting weekly tournaments across similar titles which points to why this acquisition took place.
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Per the official announcement, Repeat spoke on how important this partnership is to the team. With this acquisition, both parties can continue focusing on the goal of providing «Esports for Everyone.» Joining the PlayStation family allows Repeat to increase the scale of the tournaments hosted that was previously unable to be done without Sony's help, with plenty of new titles set to receive plenty of support in the future. The team at Repeat also mentions that this will not impact the tournaments hosted for PC titles such as League of Legends as it will continue to expand in the future.
An interesting note in the announcement was mentioned at the beginning where it was stated that this has been in the works for «for some time now.» While it's not directly stated how long it's been, this follows
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