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Googly partnership with the CPL Cricket League
Googly partnership with the CPL Cricket League.
About this update from Blue Star Capital Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n9 August 2023\nBlue Star Capital plc\n \n(\"Blue Star\" or the \"Company\")\n \nGoogly announces significant partnership with the Caribbean Premier Cricket League\n \nBlue Star Capital plc (AIM: BLU), the investing company with a focus on esports, payments, technology and its applications within media and gaming, notes Googly Media Holdings PTE. Limited (\"Googly\") recent press release announcing that Googly & the Caribbean Premier League (\"CPL\") have signed an agreement to launch the E-sports Caribbean Premier League (\"ECPL).\n \nThe CPL ranks among the world's foremost sporting leagues, drawing over 720 million annual viewers for its T20 cricket competition. In this year's tournament commencing on August 16th, CPL enthusiasts have the opportunity to engage in the ECPL on Googly, a cutting-edge esports and gaming platform from India, enabling them to represent their preferred teams. The ECPL, featuring a $25,000 prize pool, spans 7 weeks and three stages. Each CPL team (Barbados Royals, Guyana Amazon Warriors, Jamaica Tallawahs, St Kitts & Nevis Patriots, Saint Lucia Kings, and Trinbago Knight Riders) will hold Open Qualifiers on Googly's esports platform to discover their mobile esports representative. One of the supporting partners of the inaugural ECPL on Googly include Nextwave Multimedia - publishers of World Cricket Championship 3 (\"WCC3\") which is the official game of the ECPL and has 80 million downloads worldwide.\n \nGoogly is a Blue Star investee company and business partner of Blue Star's portfolio company Dynasty Gaming and Media (\"Dynasty\"), Blue Star holds a 0.6 per cent. interest in Googly.\n \nTony Fabrizi, Executive Chairman of Blue Star Capital said that: \"The Indian gaming market continues to enjoy strong growth and Googly's agreement with the Caribbean Premier League is a tremendous launch pad for Googly. We look forward to further announcements on this initiative and many others planned by Googly later this year.\"\nFor more information please contact: \n \n\n\n\nBlue Star Capital plc \n\n\n+44 (0) 777 178 2434 \n\n\n\n\nTony Fabrizi, Executive Chairman \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nAbout Blue Star\nBlue Star is an investing company with a focus on new technologies. Blue Star's investments include SatoshiPay...