Dnipro Hotel to transform into esports arena

The team from the Ukrainian NaVi esports club wins the IEM Katowice tournament in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on March 3 in Katowice, Poland in an empty arena – the last on-site esports world championship to take place before the coronavirus pandemic. But unlike in traditional sports, regional esports tournaments still continue online, attracting record numbers of online viewers. The mysterious buyer of the Kyiv’s central Dnipro Hotel turned out to be Alexander Kokhanovskyy, founder and former CEO of NaVi. He bought the hotel from the state on July 15 for $41 million and now is going to turn it into an esports arena where computer geeks will clash playing video games for a living.