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Turning Broadcasting System (TBS) and WME | IMG have teamed up to create a new Esports competitive gaming league. This new partnership will allow TBS to show various competitive gaming events for all platforms live to viewers watching at home. Valve's Counter-Strike: Global Offensive will be the first featured game during the league's first ever season.
Turner Sports will produce the eSports competitions – in association with WME | IMG – and facilitate ad sales and sponsorship opportunities surrounding the new league.

All aspects of the eSports league – including the live event experience – will be jointly managed by Turner Broadcasting and WME | IMG, with Turner Studios providing a state-of-the-art facility specifically created to showcase the live gaming competitions. Slated to begin in 2016, the televised presentation of the competitive gaming events will feature 10 consecutive weeks of programming twice per year – the most extensive commitment to televised eSports programming to date – airing Friday nights on TBS.

In 2016, eSports tournaments will be televised twice per year with each 10-week period including a regular season, playoffs and championship. Both tournaments will include eSports teams facing off in competition while playing Valve’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

Additionally, digital coverage will include live daily competitive gaming content distributed Tuesday through Friday during each tournament week, as well as a live digital companion experience on Friday nights offered simultaneously with the TBS presentation.

The first airing is expected to begin in early 2016 on TBS. This is just one of the new live experience TBS is trying to bring to home viewers next year. More concrete details and dates will be revealed later this year.