{"id":3302,"date":"2022-03-21T13:34:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T13:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/uncategorized\/episode-203-omar-batterjee-saudi-esports-federation-gcc-gaming-mena-esports-future-esl-faceit-move-big-vision\/"},"modified":"2022-04-26T17:25:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T17:25:59","slug":"episode-203-omar-batterjee-saudi-esports-federation-gcc-gaming-mena-esports-future-esl-faceit-move-big-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/asia\/episode-203-omar-batterjee-saudi-esports-federation-gcc-gaming-mena-esports-future-esl-faceit-move-big-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode #203: Omar Batterjee, Saudi Esports Federation, GCC Gaming, MENA Esports Future, ESL FACEIT Move, Big Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, with special guest Omar Batterjee (Head of Marketing, Communications, and Partnerships for the Saudi Esports Federation<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/omar-batterjee-27a648b5\/?originalSubdomain=sa#experience\"><\/a>), we discuss Omar\u2019s background in video games, the growth of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region as a gaming hub, the importance of fostering community in building a gaming and esports scene, the favorable population demographics of Saudi Arabia when it comes to esports, the booming Middle Eastern esports market, the acquisition of ESL and FACEIT by a Saudi investment group, what the future holds for MENA esports, and so much more!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thebusinessofesports.com\/2022\/03\/21\/episode-203-omar-batterjee-saudi-esports-federation-gcc-gaming-mena-esports-future-esl-faceit-move-big-vision\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Episode #203: Omar Batterjee, Saudi Esports Federation, GCC Gaming, MENA Esports Future, ESL FACEIT Move, Big Vision<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[117],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3304,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions\/3304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}