National Basketball Association (NBA) 2K League 2020 season to start from May 5

New York: The NBA 2K League has announced that the start of its 2020 regular season will begin on May 5 with at least six weeks of remote gameplay. All 23 teams will participate in regular-season game-play from their local markets with games simulcast live on the NBA 2K Leagues Twitch and YouTube channels.

Over the course of the six weeks of remote gameplay, each team is scheduled to play at least eight matches that will count toward its regular-season record. Each match will be played in a best-of-three format, which will allow the NBA 2K League broadcast to switch between games in real-time and give fans more opportunities to experience the league’s most exciting moments.

Each three-game-series victory will represent one regular-season win, and each three-game-series loss will represent one regular-season loss. The start-of-season game schedule will be announced in the coming days.

The 2020 season will once again include three in-season tournaments (The Tipoff, The Turn and The Ticket), in which teams compete for banners that link together to form The Banner Chain powered by AT&T.

All 23 teams will compete in The Tipoff and The Turn. The 14 teams that are not one of the top nine playoff seeds will compete in The Ticket, which will see the winning team earn the 10th and final spot in the playoffs.

In addition, select NBA 2K League teams will host rivalry matches and round-robin events. The remainder of the 2020 season schedule and structure, including the dates of tournaments, rivalry matches and round-robin events, will be shared as information becomes available.

The NBA 2K League will implement an innovative production model that allows for a remote broadcast in all 23 team markets and NBA 2K League broadcasters to announce games in their homes from a virtual NBA 2K League Studio, while switching between games occurring at the same time. IANS

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