It was announced Thursday that the the Inferno Online Stockholm LAN center had expanded - becoming the biggest LAN Center in the world and putting in an eSports Arena .
This means that in the western world there are now two eSports arena in the western world, the famous one in Kiev which has been talked about in a previous blog and this new one in Stockholm Sweden(which i was surprised didn’t already have one). As well as the third one overall - with the one in Chengdu which was built in the middle of the CGS years. And this isn’t counting the arenas which are retrofitted for Starcraft events in Korea, or the sound stages which MSL/OSL/GSL use during their big pro events. This means that PC events will finally get the proper support they deserve without having to haul out cranes, scaffolding and bleachers every event.
However there’s still work to be done. If these business venture continue to be as successful as they have been in the past and attract major events like IEM, WCG forcing other countries and their entrepreneurs to build more in order to continue to host these events.
This will also allow for some validity in the moves of teams to localize to a city or region, if their practice facility also is where they play events, and finally may be a "home field" in an eventual international league which will be written about later.
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