PVP Live was an American
esports
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news website. It was founded in 2012 and included a statistics database. The website was owned by PVP Live Interactive, Inc. PVP Live came out of its most recent beta on June 8, 2015. The company is based in
Frisco, Texas
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.
History
Prior incarnations of the organization include the Heroes Live, PVE Live, and Hearth Live websites, and a podcast.
The third production of Tavern Takeover was widely criticized for poor sound production, resulting in the CEO issuing a public apology and stating that sound issues would be a thing of the past.
In 2015, the website planned on producing a 24-hour online show along the lines of
ESPN
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's ''
Sports Center''.
On May 23, 2016, the site broke the news that ESPN was in talks with
Riot Games
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to purchase television broadcast rights for
League of Legends
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content for approximately $500 million. Several hours later, both ESPN and Riot Games issued statements that the story created by PVP Live was false.
PVP Live ran the Hearthstone Pro League, a professional ''
Hearthstone
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'' competition, produced in partnership with
Twitch
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,
Blizzard Entertainment
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and PRG. The $60,000 prize pool tournament was officially announced on May 27, 2015. The company was unable to actually pay the top finishers of the competition and refused to answer questions concerning the matter. Later on April 13, 2016, it announced it would pay out the prize money if another organization would pick up all associated costs, excluding the prize pool.
As of June 8, 2016, PVP Live had raised around US$2 million in private funding.
On February 5, 2018, PVP Live shut down all operations immediately.
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External links
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Esports websites
Companies based in Frisco, Texas
Defunct websites
Internet properties established in 2015
Internet properties disestablished in 2018