CScore – A Real Time Application for E-sports : PROVIDING LIVE UPDATES OF PROFESSIONAL MATCHES

Abstract: The e-sport market is a growing one and as it grows monetary interests, willingness to exploit it grows with it. A part of the e-sport market that is not satisfied yet is the market of mobile applications catering to e-sport audiences. To tackle the problem this thesis explores the problems one might encounter whilst developing a soft real-time mobile application for an esport game. The applications name is CScore, an application that will present the score of ongoing e-sports matches. Methods used for data analysis of necessary information includes analytical induction and coding. As system development model a prototyping model was used with Scrum as its framework. This thesis results in the presentation of a prototype of CScore, with enough information about the application to develop the complete system. An overview of the planned CScore system is presented including, how to retrieve information about matches and current information of ongoing matches. The relationship model of the local database and the layout of the mobile application is also presented.