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Sony Enters E-Sports Arena, Launches Tournaments Feature - Starting with NBA 2K17

11:06 AM - October 20, 2016 by RaychelSnr

Sony announced today on the PlayStation Blog that they are partnering with the ESL to launch a new tournaments feature on the PS4.

The first major tournament being held will be played on NBA 2K17.

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	"We�re excited to announce that PlayStation is partnering with ESL to introduce Tournaments, a new PS4 feature that will allow players to participate in Tournaments with games that gamers want to play. We�re kicking off the first Major tournament with NBA 2K17, to celebrate the beginning of the NBA season. The Major Tournament runs from October 27 to November 26, with Major Cup rounds occurring every Saturday. Top 3 winners of the NBA 2K17 Major Tournament will receive a prize pack that includes items such as a DualShock 4 and PlayStation gear."

The tournaments feature will initially be for 1 on 1 gaming, but Sony is expecting to expand that into the future.

E-Sports continues to gain steam, and it looks like with one major console maker fully on board it's likely you'll see sports games continue to gravitate that direction with regards to the modes they offer as well.

Will you be playing in the NBA 2K17 tournament on PS4 later this month?

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Member Comments

# 21 jfsolo @ 10/21/16 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Goffs


	First one to score 300 points wins!

Hopefully some dude using Steph, goes for like 130, with like 36 3's.

# 22 ballin095 @ 10/21/16 10:58 PM

You know what... I may be that guy to try to score 100 with curry on this thing. I mean... why not? Hopefully it will expose how arcadey this game is.

# 23 ballin095 @ 10/22/16 02:39 AM

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Originally Posted by abuC


	100 pts in 5 minute quarters would be hilarious.

On pro its definitely possible.

# 24 killxmike @ 10/22/16 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by BegBy


	Ohhh, I get it. I see what you're doing.

All I'm doing is saying your certain idea about what is sim and what can make an esport is just your opinion and nothing more or less. It isn't the strict and only option.

# 25 LM1213 @ 10/22/16 11:53 PM

if 2k wants to be taken seriously as esport..they need to get some dedicated servers. there is so much lag online you have to practically guess at what someone is going to do, because by the time they make their move, you are already reacting to the last one. yes, there are bugs, glitches, cheaters. but the worst is the servers. I love the game, I really do. but online is a mess due to the delayed reactions.

# 26 jyoung @ 10/24/16 03:53 PM

I asked the ESL if putting this tournament on Pro difficulty was just an oversight and if they would consider changing the difficulty setting to Superstar or Hall of Fame and here was their response:

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Originally Posted by ESL


	We greatly value this feedback and will take it into consideration when reviewing the rules. The reason that the setting is currently so low is due to the desire to build the community and encourage newer players to join. If a Pro League were to be started for NBA 2k17, I am confident that the settings would be less forgiving of mistakes on the player's part. However, as I said earlier, we will take this feedback into consideration when the time comes to reevaluate the rules.

I would argue that considering the type of people who usually sign up for gaming tournaments (hardcore fans), the lower difficulty setting is actually discouraging more players from joining than it is encouraging.

# 27 Jesus_Swagglesworth @ 10/24/16 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by jyoung


	I asked the ESL if putting this tournament on Pro difficulty was just an oversight and if they would consider changing the difficulty setting to Superstar or Hall of Fame and here was their response: I would argue that considering the type of people who usually sign up for gaming tournaments (hardcore fans), the lower difficulty setting is actually discouraging more players from joining than it is encouraging.

Yeah I'm not participating in this lol.

I agree, I don't think this is the way to build a scene for competitive 2k. Having a noob friendly environment in a major tourney isn't gonna build interest for the more hardcore tournaments. They'd just have to continue the easy difficulty tournaments and build the competetive scene there (which is a terrible idea lol).

Maybe they don't actually care about 2k itself? Maybe they rather just introduce more people to esports via a very popular game?

It's sucks that pro am is the only mode that gets a serious competition. I'd expect 1 v 1 to be a thing before 5 on 5.

Btw - did you mention that superstar is the default for 1 v 1?

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