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How COVID-19 has changed esports venues

Esports venues will continue to be built after the pandemic, but with a new or growing emphasis on features that improve safety and flexibility.

Over the last couple of years, Esports Insider has received and covered countless reports regarding new esports buildings and training centres. Whilst the pandemic threw a monkey wrench in executing a lot of those plans this year, announcements of new venues were still coming in, highlighting that firms are still interested in providing these buildings for future generations.

We sat down with sports design firm Henderson Engineers and venue The Gaming Stadium (TGS) who shared what they’ve learned from COVID-19’s setbacks and how these lessons will make future projects even better than before.