Las Vegas Cornering Growing Esports Market
By ALAN SNEL
LVSportsBiz.com
Robert Rippee is a popular guy with reporters these days at UNLV.
Rippee, a former Las Vegas Sands Corp. marketing executive and now director of the Hospitality Lab and esports Lab at UNLV's International Gaming Institute, has carved out a niche as the go-to guy for esports comments, perspectives and all-around good quips and sound bites on the growing esports business world in Las Vegas.
There's much to say, from the Luxor (with Allied Esports) transforming a nightclub into an esports arena to a prominent Las Vegas-based esports team called Rogue being sold recently to the Downtown Grand sports book taking bets on esports competitions.
"We're the entertainment capital of the world. Where else would you go for esports,?" Rippee asked.
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