Básquet Girona and DUX Gaming join forces to lead the vanguard of European basketball
The two entities make official the entry to European competitions in the video game NBA 2K
| Thursday, 13 October 2022
Girona, October 13, 2022.- Girona Basketball announces its alliance with the E-sports club DUX Gaming with the intention of becoming one of the most innovative clubs in Europe, as well as reaching new audiences in sum up all the communicative power of DUX.
The first result of this alliance between DUX and Basketball Girona will be the entry into European competitions of the video game NBA 2K. The project will be managed by the sports director of DUX, RafaelTGR, who has extensive experience as an E-sports player since he was champion of Spain and Europe with DUX as well as a player of the Spanish National Team of NBA 2K. More details of the projects to be undertaken by the two entities will be revealed soon.
DUX, a leading club in sports and content
DUX Gaming was born in 2018 with an absolutely disruptive idea in the world of sports: to build the first major sports club born in the 21st century, generating interest among younger audiences through content and developing a decentralized and global fandom. DUX focuses solely on sports video games such as EA SPORTS FIFA or NBA 2K, as they do not contain violence and share the same values and rules as real sports. In 2020 DjMaRiiO, the biggest EA SPORTS FIFA YouTuber in the world, Thibaut Courtois and Borja Iglesias joined the club and with them DUX became the first E-sports club in the world to also compete in semi-professional football . In 2021, DUX announced that it was making the jump to women’s football by repeating with DUX Logronyo, which competes in the second women’s division (1RFEF). Sports players, YouTubers and content creators as well as DUX Logronyo footballers share a shield, kit and colors with DUX Gaming.
DUX currently has a potential audience of over 20 million followers and has become the third Spanish sports club in number of views on Youtube and Tiktok, only surpassed by giants such as Real Madrid and FC Barcelona.
DUX’s success is due to combining the sports values of healthy life, fair play, integration and effort with the constant creation of entertainment content on digital platforms.
For more information you can follow DUX Gaming at Twitter, Tiktok, Youtube, Instagram, Twitch i Facebook or visit their web.
About DUX Gaming
DUX Gaming was founded in May 2018 having successfully participated in various FIFA tournaments at national and international level. The club currently competes in EA SPORTS FIFA with a team made up of Spaniards Gravesen, Neat, Adriman, Zezinho and Diego González. The team is part of the FIFA Global Series Masters, has been a two-time champion of eLaLiga as well as the eCopa RFEF and the eLaLiga Super Cup, as well as always being among the highest places in the FIFA rankings Global Series. The NBA 2K team won championships in Spain and Europe and one of its best players, AveMario, became the first Spaniard drafted into the NBA 2K League. DjMaRiiO, one of the biggest sports content creators in the world, is one of the owners, honorary president and ambassador of the club, along with Marc Gasol, Thibaut Courotis and Borja Iglesias. In addition, DUX made the jump to real football as co-owner of DUX Logronyo, which competes in the Women’s Second Division, becoming the first sports club in the world to make the jump to semi-professional football. In addition, DUX is the third Spanish club with the most views generated on YouTube and Tiktok, only surpassed by Real Madrid and FC. Barcelona In September 2021, a historic alliance was announced for the club to be part of the NBA 2K League with a new franchise called DUX INFINITS. The potential reach of all DUX Gaming members exceeds 20 million users.
The first Catalan derby for Básquet Girona, in League competition, arrives on matchday 7 and will be against FC Barcelona at home. In the last precedent, in the Catalan League, Barça won 88-77.
The men coached by Sarunas Jasikevicius arrive at the match in a very good league dynamic: 5 wins and only 1 defeat. Despite starting the championship losing on the track of Gran Canaria, the streak of 5 consecutive winning games has served them to lead the classification.
Básquet Girona, for its part, also reached the compromise by stringing together 2 victories in a row that have taken them out of the relegation zone and turned the dynamics of the beginning of the League upside down. Currently, Aíto García Reneses’ team has a record of 2 wins and 4 losses.
The match will be played this Sunday, November 6, at 5 p.m., at the Palau Blaugrana. It can also be followed by Movistar + dial 59.
Call
Maxi Fjellerup, Eric Vila, Kameron Taylor, Pol Figueras, Roko Prkačin, Quino Colom, Dušan Miletić, Pierre Oriola, Ondrej Hanzlík, Pato Garino, Marc Gasol and Jaume Sorolla.
Declarations
Aíto García Reneses: ‘It’s a game to go and play the best we can. Then there will be people who will only enjoy if the result is favorable. We have to go to play with the aim of being a little better every day’.
‘I think we trained quite well. We have raised the level of training as well as the level of matches. I don’t attach so much importance to the psychological aspect: we have to do our best knowing that the others are also playing.’
