We have established an exclusive partnership with SIS (Sports Information Services) concerning their competitive gaming service for our Odds and Streaming products. You will be able to select in between managed trading services or just the data/streaming offering from us.
SIS Competitive Gaming specializes in eSports, specifically covering EA FC and NBA 2K match-ups.
SIS eSports leverages the current Genius integrations architecture that is already established between our platforms and is hosted within our Inplay InPlay Manager product. Upon booking, we We will provide events, markets, and results in the same manner way as you would currently receive for other Inplay InPlay sports, requiring which leads to require only some minor integration work works to be done to fully capitalize on this new and compelling opportunity.
Content
EA FC
Competition name: "eSoccer H2H GG League Mixed"
Competition ID: 18784We have established an exclusive partnership with SIS (Sports Information Services) concerning their competitive gaming service for our Odds and Streaming products. You have the option to select either both services or solely the data/streaming service from us. SIS Competitive Gaming specializes in eSports, specifically covering FIFA and NBA 2K.
Kindly take note that on Production, the following are the relevant competition IDs for these services:
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"id": 18784, "name": "eSoccer H2H GG League Mixed"
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NBA 2K
Competition name: "eBasketball H2H GG League Mixed"
Competition ID: 18783
Mapping
We are able to provide and send out the SIS eSports events either under eSports or the respective sport IDs (Football for EA FC and Basketball for NBA 2K).
This is done by changing the Sport property within the Integration Service fixture message from eSports to the respective Sport. No such changes are made anywhere else, this would only apply to the Fixture messages.
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Regular Fixture message would look like this: We are able to send out the event as below: |
We can provide events via eSports for you to map to the specific sports, or we can provide them to you as ‘Football’ or ‘Basketball’ sport ID's as opposed to eSports ID’s. Then the events should be displayed within football/basketball on the customer-facing sites and listed as e-football/e-basketball respectively. For Match State, SIS eSports utilizes the MultiSport This should ease the mapping in order to display the SIS eSports events under their respective sports, which has proven to drive and increase revenue and fan engagement.
Match State
SIS eSports content utilizes the already familiar MultiSportV2 match state contract, which is elaborated explained in greater detail here: Multi Sport V2 (refer to SIS to locate the Football and Basketball entries).
Our market offering for SIS eSports can be found from here
Market offering and details
Please find all the information regarding Market Types, their suggested margins and uptime details from the below file:
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You would need to set up two different designated templates for each of the sports - one for NBA2K and one for EA Sports FC. Please also note that:
It is expected that customers map the games under basketball and football as sports to maximise maximize the visibility of the content, although you would be receiving events from us and booking those through the eSports category
We recommend you ensure all the competitions from SIS autobooked
SIS streaming fixtures would be autobooked for you once the trading and data are booked. Therefore you will not find an option to manually book the streaming game in the data services console
Early Pricing
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Early Pricing
We are also offering early pricing for the SIS eSports matches. This is done through the InPlay service and requires no separate pre-match integration.
The prices are being sent via our InPlay product as well. This would utilize which uses the same templates and be markets and is delivered via InPlay only 30 minutes before scheduled start time, as opposed to when the fixture starts.
How do I get these early prices?
Competition Templates should be set up with fixture Fixture and market Market creation set ahead of the start time and with trading active “Trading Active” set to "as As soon as possible" - so that pricing starts as soon as immediately once the prices are available.
How many fixtures are available there with early pricing?
All fixtures that start starting in the window between 9am - 5pm (UK time) will be priced have early pricing.
This includes approximately 6 concurrent games of EA Sports FC and 3 games of NBA2K running concurrently
We plan are planning to transition to a 24/7 schedule gradually . The with the specific date for this expansion has not been determined yet
How will customers know which fixtures?
Customers will see the offer under Sports or eSports on the main page via Inplay
There is no direct indicator of the individual fixtures supported for early pricing outside of the start time window stated earlier
How early will the pricing be?
Games in the time-frame will be available with prematch approximately 30 minutes before kick off
Are all the markets supported from InPlay?
The markets that are supported via InPlay will also be supported in early pricing. Index markets will be have the first/initial index.
Streaming
SIS eSports streaming service will be auto-booked for the event once the trading and data are booked. Therefore you will not find an option to manually book the streaming game in the data services console
SIS eSports streaming content is delivered in the same way as any other streaming content
Once you are prepared to go live, we will also require an email address to which SIS can send notifications regarding schedule changes or fixture deletions.