{"id":242756,"date":"2024-07-12T18:59:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T18:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/12\/ioc-and-saudi-arabia-agree-12-year-deal-for-esports-olympics\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:14:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:14:50","slug":"ioc-and-saudi-arabia-agree-12-year-deal-for-esports-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/12\/ioc-and-saudi-arabia-agree-12-year-deal-for-esports-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"IOC and Saudi Arabia agree 12-year deal for eSports Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/qiddiyah.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have signed a gaming partnership that will see the Olympic eSports games held regularly in the Kingdom over the next 12 years.<\/p>\n<p>The inaugural eSports Olympics will be held in Riyadh next year with the dates of future events not yet announced.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi sports minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Faisal said the country \u201chas become a global hub for professional esports. This is a natural next step for our young athletes, our country, and the global esports community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The deal still needs to be ratified by the membership of the IOC at its next meeting on the 23rd and 24th of this month in Paris ahead of the Summer Olympic Games. This is expected to only be a formality however with the deal already agreed.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Abdulaziz said in a post on X, \u201cWe are excited to partner with the IOC and plan together the first-ever Olympic Esports Games. A bright new era begins. Another huge addition to our lineup of major sporting events. Welcome to Saudi Arabia\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are excited to partner with the IOC and plan together the first-ever Olympic Esports Games. A bright new era begins. <\/p>\n<p>Another huge addition to our lineup of major sporting events \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Saudi Arabia \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\udde6<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OlympicEsportsInSaudi?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OlympicEsportsInSaudi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0639\u0628\u062f\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0632\u064a\u0632 \u0628\u0646 \u062a\u0631\u0643\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0641\u064a\u0635\u0644 (@AbdulazizTF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AbdulazizTF\/status\/1811739171934884149?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The IOC\u2019s President Thomas Bach said, \u201cWe are very fortunate to be able to work with the Saudi NOC on the Olympic Esports Games, because it has great \u2013 if not unique \u2013 expertise in the field of esports with all its stakeholders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bach has previously stated that the eSports event will have a different financial model from the Summer and Winter Games, both of which share revenue with the governing bodies of participating sports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/saudi-arabia-goes-all-in-on-esports-and-gaming-as-new-world-class-arena-in-the-works\/\">Last December we reported<\/a> that Saudi Arabia was vying to become a global force in eSports and gaming entertainment and had unveiled a multi-billion dollar entertainment region called the Qiddiya Entertainment District featuring a huge new eSports arena with one of the world\u2019s largest total areas of video screens to relay the action stating that the arena \u201cwill be unique in esports in both scale and user experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/esports-olympics-deal\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have signed a gaming partnership that will see the Olympic eSports games held<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}