Millions of people around the world
are playing their favorite games right now. The majority do so for fun in their free
time. But others are seasoned professionals, celebrated for their gaming
prowess – and even make a living through their in-game abilities and
accomplishments. The tournament of eSports is anywhere even the prize is very
fantastic, the last DOTA2 tournament has prize pool more than $18M with 1st
winner will get $6.6M. It sounds exaggerated, but that’s the truth. Because that
phenomenon the number of people that search for the latest news from the game
is increased not just the news but also the live update or live score of the tournament
match to track how’s the performance of their beloved team.
To
make it simple, there is apps named theScore|eSports that available in Android
and IOS operating system. With their tagline “The ultimate mobile eSports
experience” it provides the ultimate experience for wide range of gamers start
from MOBAs such as DOTA2 and League of legends, FPS goliath Counter Strike : Global
Offensive even a card games like hearthstone. So, this is my review of the app
including the technical details, my experience of using this app and last but
not least the experience from other that use this app.
Speaking
of the news it provides, this app provides wide range of news because with it
we can search for the latest news by the category of the game and we can sort
what update we want to see like the general news or we can sort by only showing
the rooster update of an eSport team so with this feature we can easily search
the news we want. Not only that this app provides a notification for the user,
so the apps will make sure the user to get the latest news in time so there is
not outdated user anymore.
For
the score updates, I think this app is the most powerful app because this app
provides wide range of the tournament, from regional tournament until
international tournament. This app will track every gold earned, kills, even
the rotation of the player in every match. If you want to see the real game you
can live stream the match trough this app. This app also offers a notification
for you, you can mark your desired game and the app will give notification when
the game is start, and there are some kills in the game and also when the game
is ended. We can also see the schedule of incoming matches and the score of the
game that has been finished. For addition, this app also provides the
individual records of players its mean with this app you can see the individual
track record of pro player start from the track record in the tournament until the
all-time track record that means you can track where team the players have been
played, how many kills that the player do, how many death, and also the profile
of the player itself like where does he lived, how old are they, etc.
With
those feature, this app got 4.5 out of 5 from more than 8000 users in the
google play with more than 100.000 downloads. In apple Apps Store this
application got 4+ out of 5 rating. That means this app is eligible to download
if you are a game freaks that need fresh update and live score anywhere you
are.
For
technical details, this apps running on TCP which stands for Transmission Control Protocol that means
it connection oriented, once connection is established, data can be send
bidirectional. TCP is suited for application that require high reliability, and
transmission time is relatively less critical which mean there is absolute guarantee that the data transferred remains intact
and arrives in the same order in which it was sent but the speed for TCP is
slower than UDP. TCP also used by other protocol such as HTTP, HTTPs, FTP,
SMTP, Telnet.
As I said before, TCP also used by another protocol, in this case
the app is running on port 433 which is HTTPs which stands for Secure Hypertext
Transfer Protocol. Using HTTPS, the devices agree on a "code" between
them, and then they scramble the messages using that "code" so that
no one in between can read them. This keeps your information safe from hackers.
They use the "code" on a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), sometimes
called Transport Layer Security (TLS) to send the information back and forth. Humans
could encode their own documents, but computers do it faster and more
efficiently. To do this, the computer at each end uses a document called an
"SSL Certificate" containing character strings that are the keys to
their secret "codes.". SSL certificates contain the computer owner's
"public key." The procedure for exchanging public keys using SSL Certificate to
enable HTTPS, SSL and TLS is called Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). With HTTPS if anyone in between the sender and the recipient
could open the message, they still could not understand it. Only the sender and
the recipient, who know the "code," can decipher the message. So with
the protocol and port that this app use means that this app is very secure from
hacker.
I have used this app for 6 moth and my opinion for this app are the
interface is easy to know and the news are actual and various and the best
thing that I very like from this app is the notification when the match is
start because with this feature I didn’t miss the game that I want to watch and
last thing this app is ad free, so there is no annoying ad that will popped up
and disturb you when using this app.
So, the conclusion is if you are game freaks and want the latest
news from the game you like and the live score of the tournament match you must
download it! Because this app provides the latest news from eSports and also
the live score of the match that you desire, if you want to watch it live this
app also has live streaming for several match so you can keep track on your
favorite team and player because this app also provide the track record of
individual player. For the security, don’t be hesitate use this app for
security reason because it using HTTPs which mean the connection between you
and the app server is secured by SSL. And the last things that give the reason
why you must download it is this app is AD FREE!
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