Sports Venues of Florida, Inc., Subsidiary, Shadow Gaming, is Announcing Team "ALL OUT OF GUM 2" Maintains Lead Going Into The June 7 Finals of Shadow Gaming and New World Interactive's Insurgency

Sandstorm Spring International Open

TAMPA, FL, June 02, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NEWMEDIAWIRE -- Today, Sports Venues of Florida, Inc., (OTCMKTS: BTHR) (“Sports Venues of Florida”, “BTHR”, or the “Company”), an emerging leader in the youth sports, family sports entertainment, and eSports markets, announced ALL OUT OF GUM 2 (AoG2), MOLOT, Spice Bois, and =TUF= advancing as the Top 4 out of this weekend's rapid-fire European Qualifiers. After the tournament, Shadow Gaming Twitch followership had grown 60% from the previous event, up to 301 followers. Full tournament replays are online on Shadow Gaming's Twitch channel (https://www.twitch.tv/shadowgamingfps).

User cherryhood predicted AOG2's dominance, commenting, "AoG are gonna stomp now," in reference to AoG2's earlier match-up against Regicide Esports. Regicide Esports, who although were able to advance to finals in last week's tournament, were knocked out in the first match during the weekend's competition. On AoG2-Regicide match point, stream shoutcaster CoolJ agreed, "(AoG2) have been in control of this match from start to finish; Regicide - they have put up a fight, it hasn't been a complete all-out, but Regicide has really just been struggling."

During the final match of the stream between MOLOT and Spice Bois, user bilgeenes1994 remarked, "Wow it seems MOLOT is on fire." After a hard-fought and close match that switched leads between teams, guest commentator GrindSultan summarized, "It looks like the pot was a little too spicy for the Spice Bois and MOLOT pulled it out. Great game, what a way to end the day."

The leading teams from the past two weekends are invited to compete this Sunday, June 7, for a total winner’s prize pool of USD $2,000 cash and $500 of cash-value giveaways, and perhaps more importantly, bragging rights as Insurgency: Sandstorm champions. Spectators and competitors can join the Shadow Gaming community Discord (https://discord.gg/FfbHjCA) to inquire about event details.

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