Detecting events in a livestream video of a video game in an esports competition

A computing system comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform acts comprising:
• receiving a livestream video of a video game being played by a video game player during play of the video game by the video game player;
• identifying, in the livestream video and through use of machine vision technologies, an occurrence of an event in the video game depicted in the livestream video, where the event is not tracked within the video game, and further where the machine vision technologies have been trained to detect occurrences of the event;
• and
• updating a score for the video game player based on the identification of the occurrence of the event, where the score is indicative of an aggregate number of occurrences of the event detected by the machine vision technologies in the livestream video during the play of the video game by the video game player.

A computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform acts comprising:

• receiving a livestream video of a video game being played by a video game player during play of the video game by the video game player;
• identifying, in the livestream video and through use of machine vision technologies, an occurrence of an event in the video game depicted in the livestream video, where the event is not tracked within the video game, and further where the machine vision technologies have been trained to detect occurrences of the event;
• and
• updating a score for the video game player based on the identification of the occurrence of the event, where the score is indicative of an aggregate number of occurrences of the event detected by the machine vision technologies in the livestream video during the play of the video game by the video game player.