eSports News; Breaking Data's (TSXV: $BKD.V; OTC:
$BKDCD) GIVEMESPORT Partners with McLaren Racing for World's Fastest Gamer
Competition
Win the best job in eSports – a role with the Formula 1
team as one of its official simulator drivers.
Toronto,
Canada and London, U.K. - May 9, 2017 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Esports
news: Breaking Data Corp. (TSXV: BKD)
(OTC: BKDCD) ("Breaking Data" or the "Company") reports
that it has partnered with McLaren to market World's Fastest Gamer – the
world's most intense and demanding competition for virtual racers. It's a
contest that will see the winner offered the best job in eSports – a role with
the Formula 1 team as one of its official simulator drivers.
World's
Fastest Gamer is a collaboration between GIVEMESPORT, global sports and
technology brand McLaren, founding partner Logitech G, a global leader in
gaming gear and the founder of virtual motorsport's famous GT Academy, Darren
Cox, sports and eSport racing innovator Sparco.
The
winner will be offered a one-year contract with McLaren to work in an official
capacity as a simulator driver. Find out more at http://www.mclaren.com/formula1/2017/worlds-fastest-gamer/worlds-fastest-gamer-explain-game/
World's Fastest Gamer: Explain
the Game
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I’m
particularly proud that McLaren, alongside our partners Logitech, Sparco and
GIVEMESPORT, have staked a claim as the very first sports and technology brand
to venture into the diverse and fast-growing world of eSports,” said McLaren
Technology Group executive, Zak Brown.
"The combination of McLaren, GIVEMESPORT and eSports, to
find The World's Fastest Gamer is exactly the type of partnership we want to be
doing," said Nick
Thain, CEO of Breaking Data.
"eSports is a very exciting, fast moving sector. Bringing together the technical excellence
and motorsport pedigree of McLaren with GIVEMESPORT's Artificial Intelligence
capabilities and ability distribute video content to hundreds of millions of
sports fans, across to world, is a very powerful combination" continued Thain.
"The World's Fastest Gamer will create the bridge between 'real world' sports fans and competitive eSports gaming, unlocking a completely new audience," Thain concluded.
“There are moments in life when you see
something so brilliant, that you wished you had created it. So, we did the next best thing in partnering
up with McLaren’s, World’s Fastest Gamer,” said Jae Chalfin, CCO of Breaking
Data. “This is an exciting step into the
world of both F1 and eSports for GIVEMESPORT.com,” Chalfin concluded.
About McLaren Racing:
McLaren Racing is a company
within McLaren Technology Group.
McLaren Technology Group is
globally renowned as one of the world’s most illustrious high-technology
brands. Since its foundation in 1963, McLaren has been pioneering and
innovating in the competitive world of Formula 1, forging a formidable
reputation which has seen the racing team win 20 World Championships and over
180 races.
Breaking Data Corp. is a technology provider of a range of Artificial
Intelligence (“AI”) services including; semantic search, machine learning and
natural language processing ("NLP"). The Company's technology
platform has many practical applications, in multiple business and consumer
verticals that are immersed in massive media and data rich settings. The
Company's showcase app, BreakingSports, utilizes AI, semantic machine learning
and NLP to track social media in a fully automated, real-time manner for significant
sports information and events and distributes summarized information through
real-time push notifications to consumers.
GIVEMESPORT, Breaking Data’s recent acquisition, is a leading next
generation sports media company with the largest single publisher Facebook page
in the world, with over 26 million fans. The next largest single sports
publisher Facebook page is ESPN with 15.2 million fans. GIVEMESPORT’s content
generates over 3.6 billion impressions (Feb-17), reaching over 138 million
unique users (Feb-17) per month on Facebook alone. Visit
GIVEMESPORT’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/GiveMeSport/
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