Esports Entertainment Group Signs Affiliate Marketing Agreements with Additional 34 Esports Teams, Bringing Total To 134 Esports Teams

Esports Entertainment Group, Inc. (OTCQB:GMBL) (or the “Company”), a licensed online gambling company with a specific focus on esports wagering and 18+ gaming, is pleased to announce Affiliate Marketing Agreements with 34 additional esports teams as the Company continues to ramp up affiliate marketing activities in support of its recent launch of vie.gg, the world’s first and most transparent esports betting exchange.

The addition of these 34 esports teams brings the total number of esports team affiliates to 134 since the Company’s first announcement on April 5^th, representing a major milestone for Esports Entertainment Group, as well as, a major event within the esports world where no other esports wagering site has ever signed an Affiliate Marketing Agreement with an esports team.  The Company anticipates many more Affiliate Marketing Agreements with esports teams throughout 2018.

NEWEST ESPORT TEAM AFFILIATES EXPAND GLOBAL REACH INTO SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA

The addition of the 34 esports teams below represents a significant geographical expansion and balancing of the Company’s partners.  Whereas the first 60 esports teams were heavily concentrated in Europe, the last 74 esports teams have primarily come from South and Central America.  The geographical distribution of our most recent esports team affiliate partners is as follows:

• Brazil: 16
• Argentina: 5
• Peru: 4
• Colombia: 2
• Chile: 2
• Ecuador: 2
• Venezuela: 1
• Paraguay: 1
• Honduras: 1

Grant Johnson, CEO of Esports Entertainment Group, stated, “We want to welcome all of our new esports team partners from South America. The region has a huge esports fan base and we look forward to working closely with these teams as they engage with their fans at home and around the globe.”

VIE.GG

vie.gg offers bet exchange style wagering on esports events in a licensed, regulated and secured platform to the global esports audience, excluding jurisdictions that prohibit online gambling. vie.gg features wagering on the following esports games:

• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CSGO)
• League of Legends
• Dota 2
• Call of Duty
• Overwatch
• PUBG
• Hearthstone
• StarCraft II

This press release is available on our Online Investor Relations Community for shareholders and potential shareholders to ask questions, receive answers and collaborate with management in a fully moderated forum at https://agoracom.com/ir/EsportsEntertainmentGroup

About Esports Entertainment Group

Esports Entertainment Group, Inc. is a licensed online gambling company with a specific focus on esports wagering and 18+ gaming. Esports Entertainment offers bet exchange style wagering on esports events in a licensed, regulated and secure platform to the global esports audience at vie.gg.  In addition, Esports Entertainment intends to offer users from around the world the ability to participate in multi-player mobile and PC video game tournaments for cash prizes. Esports Entertainment is led by a team of industry professionals and technical experts from the online gambling and the video game industries, and esports. The Company holds licenses to conduct online gambling and 18+ gaming on a global basis in Curacao, Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Kahnawake Gaming Commission in Canada. The Company maintains offices in Antigua, Curacao and Warsaw, Poland. Esports Entertainment common stock is listed on the OTCQB under the symbol GMBL.  For more information visit www.esportsentertainmentgroup.com
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