New Delhi: Leading Kabaddi destination, Kabaddi Adda, has announced its partnership with FanCode, India’s premier digital sports destination for all fans, for exclusive broadcast rights of the K7 Kabaddi Stage Up tournament. Matches from the upcoming tournament will be exclusively live-streamed on FanCode, reaching its user base of more than 20 million sports fans.
The K7 Kabaddi Stage Up Tournament is a 17-day event, starting on July 22. It will feature 59 matches with more than 140 players and coaches participating from across Haryana. The 10 participating teams include 8 teams that made it through the K7 Qualifiers in March and 2 additional wild card entries. Taking place at the Future Fighters Kabaddi Academy, Gurugram, each participating academy team will come in with a squad of 12 players and 2 officials.
Through collaboration with FanCode, Kabaddi Adda aims to bring back live kabaddi action to the fans who have been waiting for the sport to resume. Speaking on this, Suhail Chandhok, Co-founder, Kabaddi Adda, said, “It’s been a challenging year for athletes and with the K7 Stage Up, we want to not only bring back the thrill of our own Sport of Kabaddi, but provide opportunities to budding players from top Kabaddi academies across the country. The collaboration with FanCode helps us reach out to Kabaddi fans on a massive scale but also provides a platform for talent across players, coaches, and referees to showcase their skills, giving them exposure among fans and professional teams across India and Indian sub-continent.”
FanCode, launched in March 2019, provides a highly personalized experience across sports content, commerce, and statistics to all sports fans through innovative technology. Since its inception, FanCode has partnered with several domestic and international sports leagues and associations across multiple sports.
Talking about the partnership and comprehensive digital sports experience that will be offered during K7 Kabaddi, Prasana Krishnan, Co-Founder of FanCode, said, “We are excited to host and support Kabaddi’s comeback after a hiatus by live streaming all the action from K7 Kabaddi. To make it engaging, through innovative technology, we are creating a comprehensive live kabaddi experience where the fans can witness live streaming, fastest live scores with play-by-play information, real-time statistics, and much more.”
The tournament will sport prizes for the winning team, ‘Super 6’ – top 6 players of the tournament, Best Raider, Defender, and more. The 6 top teams from the tournament will move on to the K7 Finals, which is scheduled to take place at the end of this year.
Kabaddi Adda’s existing distribution network and strong connection will help amplify the content, with social reach to the massive kabaddi audience online. Being associated with the grassroots ecosystem of the sport, it will leverage expertise in data and automation tech to bring together the community. Recently, Kabaddi Adda even undertook an initiative ‘Mann ki Jeet’ to address and support the mental health wellbeing of kabaddi athletes and make them field-ready for upcoming tournaments like K7 Kabaddi.
