By AFPMore by this AuthorMEXICO CITYMexico's main football league will launch an eSports tournament on Friday with professional players as the global pandemic sees stadiums shut and physical play suspended. The competition will be a "replica" of 2020's closing tournament, organized over 17 days with nine matches daily and culminating in a finale, the Liga MX said Tuesday. Each of the 18 clubs will choose three players from their professional teams to participate in the virtual tournament, with each meeting seeing a one-on-one match. The games will be played in two periods of six minutes, with a half-time of less than three minutes, and will be broadcast across the main Mexican TV channels. In the eventuality that physical play is able to resume, the two competitions will continue simultaneously.

Source: Daily Nation April 08, 2020 13:07 UTC