FIELD: information technology.
SUBSTANCE: method involves broadcasting a live twitch video game tournament in the form of one or more real-time compressed digital video streams from a hosting service centre to viewers over the Internet, and receiving an input control signal over the Internet from live twitch video game tournament players, each player interacting through a client device which does not run the actual twitch video game tournament and is located at a distance away from the hosting service centre.
EFFECT: faster transmission of multicast interactive video streaming from a hosting service to a plurality of viewers over the Internet; audio from a sports commentator is overlaid by the hosting service onto the multicast video stream.
9 cl, 40 dwg
