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DraftKings and FanDuel desert fantasy sports merger

13 July 2017

Fantasy sports sites DraftKings and FanDuel have actually deserted a plan to combine, less than a month after US competitors regulators sought to obstruct the bet9ja's welcome offer.

The deal would have produced a company with control over 90% of the market for paid, day-to-day fantasy sports contests, federal government authorities said.

The firms stated the deal would cause greater financial investment, providing benefits for customers.

They stated they would now look to grow separately.

FanDuel started in Scotland in 2009 and is now based in New york city. It is second in the US for paid daily dream sports contests behind DraftKings, which started in Boston in 2012.

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The 2 firms specialise in a subset of dream sports, in which fans select gamers to create groups for single video games, instead of the season, with the potential to win prize money based on the outcome.

In November, they stated they had agreed to combine. Terms were not divulged.

At the time, they said the deal would permit them to integrate forces on regulative concerns raised by US regulators, who had actually compared the industry to and banned the sites in some states.

Nigel Eccles, head of FanDuel, said it made sense to move on separately.

"There is still huge, untapped market opportunity for FanDuel, and we will continue to perform our technique to grow our company and more expand the dream sports industry," he stated in a declaration.

Draft Kings president Jason Robbins also said ending the merger would enable the firm to "singularly focus" on development, consisting of worldwide.

In 2015 there were an approximated 57 million dream sports players in the US alone.