{"id":47894,"date":"2020-06-25T12:30:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T11:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/?p=47894"},"modified":"2022-03-10T13:19:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T13:19:30","slug":"esports-arena-oakland-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2020\/06\/esports-arena-oakland-closes","title":{"rendered":"Esports Arena Oakland to close permanently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\"><b>Esports Arena<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will close the doors of its Oakland location permanently, the company revealed Wednesday in a statement.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\">Due to \u201cunfortunate circumstances,\u201d Esports Arena Oakland will remain closed after initially shuttering its physical location on March 16th in wake of the pandemic crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_47895\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47895\" style=\"width: 1075px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-47895 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/maxresdefault-e1593043991655.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1075\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/maxresdefault-e1593043991655.jpg 1075w, https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/maxresdefault-e1593043991655-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/maxresdefault-e1593043991655-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/maxresdefault-e1593043991655-1024x673.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/maxresdefault-e1593043991655-696x458.jpg 696w, https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/maxresdefault-e1593043991655-741x486.jpg 741w, https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/maxresdefault-e1593043991655-1068x702.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/maxresdefault-e1593043991655-639x420.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1075px) 100vw, 1075px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47895\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\">Photo credit: Esports Arena<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\"><b>RELATED: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2020\/02\/esports-arena-series-e\/\"><b>Esports Arena Series E semi-professional circuit unveiled<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\">The statement read: \u201cDue to unfortunate circumstances, Esports Arena Oakland will not be reopening and we will be closing our doors permanently. We can\u2019t thank you all enough and will never forget all the events, weeklies and communities who competed inside our doors.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\">Esports Arena opened the halls of its Oakland, California venue in April 2018 where it hosted a number of LAN events at both the community and professional levels. The statement released by the venue and production company closes by directing its local player base to its Roseville location, which is slated to open on July 2nd.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[primis_video widget=&#8221;5183&#8243;]\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\"><b>RELATED: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2020\/03\/sports-esports-content-covid-19\/\"><b>Traditional sports relying upon esports during COVID-19 crisis<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\">Over the past weekend, Esports Arena destinations in Orlando, Detroit, Scottsdale, Kansas City, Nashville, Austin, Raleigh, and Chicago resumed public operations. At the time of writing, it\u2019s unclear as to when the company\u2019s original location in Santa Ana will reopen its doors, while the HyperX Esports Arena venue in Las Vegas is scheduled to open up to the public on June 25th.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;\"><b>Esports Insider says: Although there have been many silver-linings for the esports and gaming industries as a result of the global quarantines, some businesses are simply unable to pivot during this period of crisis. It\u2019s unfortunate to see the closure of the Oakland location, but we hope Esports Arena, and the rest of the world, can recover from the damage brought on by COVID-19.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[maxbutton id=&#8221;4&#8243; ]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esports Arena will close the doors of its Oakland location permanently, the company revealed Wednesday in a statement. 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Photo credit: Esports Arena RELATED: Esports Arena Series E semi-professional circuit unveiled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2020\/06\/esports-arena-oakland-closes\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":47895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","esi_template":"default","excluded":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,55,106,237,240],"tags":[734],"class_list":["post-47894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commercial","category-esports-titles","category-latest-news","category-news-by-region","category-north-america","tag-esports-arena"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Esports 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