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Bytemarks Café: eSports and the Overwatch Tournament

Published May 19, 2021 at 3:35 PM HST

Today on Bytemarks Cafe, we?ll turn our sights on eSports and the 2021 Overwatch Tournament. We’ll find out how organizers picked Hawaii as the location for the international competition and what the players thought of the playing remotely.

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Burt Lum

Burt Lum is the Strategy Officer for the Hawaii Broadband Initiative at the State of Hawaii, Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism. Before that he was the Executive Director of Hawaii Open Data, a non-profit dedicated to advancing the principles of open data and has more than 30 years in Hawaii's technology and communications sector.

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