TeamSpeak Launches Tournament Edition for Virtual Gaming Events

TeamSpeak has reportedly launched a customized version of TeamSpeak focused on online, LAN, and virtual events named TeamSpeak Tournament Edition (TST). Events can be either cocky-hosted or deployed through the TST platform.

"Built on the foundations of our ultra-loftier performance voice technology, TST is unrivalled in usability, clarity, flexibility and reliability; and can exist deployed through a self-hosted option or via our new TST Platform, enabling events to instantly transition from being alive, in-person competitions to 100% virtual.",wrote TeamSpeak.

TeamSpeak Tournament Edition has already been embraced by Overwatch League, which recently called off all events scheduled for March and Apr and moved the matches entirely online due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. TeamSpeak is Overwatch League'due south official voice supplier until 2023.

"At present that the Overwatch League has gone entirely online, nosotros use TeamSpeak not only for the team competitive environment, simply likewise as a product communications organization that all of our crew and talent uses to produce the broadcast from dozens of locations around the globe simultaneously.", says Pete Emminger, Vice President of Global Broadcast at Blizzard Entertainment.

Co-ordinate to VentureBeat, iRacing is also using TeamSpeak Tournament Edition. iRacing has reportedly partnered with eNASCAR, eIndyCar, and others for conducting and broadcasting virtual automobile racing competitions.

"It's a pretty significant upgrade to the existing customer-server products that are used past millions of people. This is specific to the league apply case. Nosotros built a super lightweight client that has about a 10-megabyte footprint. It is very small, very lite, and super depression-latency. This improves performance for loftier-performance teams.,"Michael Howse, a TeamSpeak advisor told VentureBeat.