Case Study: Skillshot achieves ultra-low-latency esports streaming with HorizonIQ

Esports Leader Skillshot Chooses INAP for Low-Latency Network Services

Skillshot Media, a leader in the $1 billion esports industry that has hosted thousands of global competitors, paid out millions in tournament prizing and served more than one billion esports views, needed exceptionally low-latency network performance to support grassroots tournaments, global leagues and live arena events streamed to viewers worldwide. Preventing experience‑killing latency and lag across servers and streams was the company’s primary operational challenge.

Skillshot chose INAP for industry-leading network services and Performance IP®, which augments border gateway protocol (BGP) by selecting the best-performing routes in real time. Performance IP® makes a daily average of nearly 500 million optimizations across INAP’s global network and sends Skillshot’s outbound traffic on the lowest-latency path more than 99% of the time. In January 2020 the companies formed a strategic partnership to build an Esports Media Center in INAP’s downtown Atlanta Tier 3 flagship data center, delivering ultra-low-latency, reliable streaming and production capabilities.

Skillshot

Todd Harris

Chief Executive Officer