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Outfitting the ambitious National PUBG League Jonathan Lyth
AUTHOR Adam Fitch @byadamfitch
Technical Director
hen OGN jumped ship from South Korea to North America last year, it set upon what appeared to be an impossible challenge: creating an arena that can accommodate a Battle Royale league in an logistically-feasible and aesthetically-pleasing manner. With 16 teams competing - each comprised of four players - it’s a much taller task than arranging a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive facility, for example.
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OGN was announced as the company behind the National PUBG League in October 2018 and it only had a few months to set up its Super Arena ahead of the competition’s impending start
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date. It’s not easy to source all the equipment needed to create such a setup, especially if it needs to be mobile to make way for other competitions. Add in the need for dedicated presence on production-oriented tasks, and things can get overwhelming. This is where ES Broadcast stepped in. Vastly experienced in systems integrations outside of esports, the company has done an immaculate job in entering the space in a way that feels authentic and genuinely helpful. Partnering with OGN to help bring the National PUBG League to life, it ventured to Los Angeles with a kit list and did all the heavy lifting to allow OGN to concentrate on the other important areas.
“It was at the time where Battle Royale was really on the rise and as outsiders coming into it, we didn’t realize that from a technology point of view - we were starting on the extreme,” said Jonathan Lyth, Technical Director of ES Broadcast. “OGN needed a company to come in and do the heavy lifting with systems integration so it could concentrate on production and that’s how it all started.” ES Broadcast had a pre-existing relationship with OGN, having worked together in a small capacity in the past, but it didn’t realise the challenge it faced with the National PUBG League. There are four columns that each contain four setups, as well as four rows that are tiered to allow the audience to get a
