Stage It Here.
Stream It Everywhere.
A broadcast facility built to become your tournament venue — permanent control room, REMI delivery to any platform on Earth, and the whole building behind it.
The Stage
5,800 square feet of production-ready stage. Hardwired to the L6 Control Room — no temporary cable runs, no portable switcher setup. Multi-camera live switching starts from the moment your team walks in.
- 5,800 sq ft open stage floor
- 14 ft ceiling clearance
- Lighting grid at 10–11 ft
- Multi-camera ISO recording
- Direct hardwire to L6 Control Room
- Simultaneous streaming to multiple platforms
Not a Laptop
on a Cart.
A permanent, engineered broadcast control room — hardwired to every stage in the building. Multi-camera live switching, graphics, audio mixing, 4K encoding, and REMI delivery. This is the infrastructure most venues rent for events. We built it in.
- Permanent installation — not portable
- Multi-camera live switching director
- Graphics and replay integration
- Professional audio mixing suite
- 4K encode and stream output
- ISO recording on all camera feeds
Your Audience
Is Everywhere.
REMI delivery from Tampa to control rooms, broadcast networks, and streaming platforms worldwide. We've transmitted live to Chicago, London, Toronto, and Sydney. Your event in Studio G reaches any audience on any platform.
Shoot It Here. Transmit It Everywhere.
A plethora of player and team laptops, every camera, every caster feed — all routed through one control room. From there it goes two directions at once: distributed throughout the entire building, and transmitted live to any platform, anywhere in the country.
Players and teams plug in from a plethora of laptops on the floor. Gameplay, cameras, casters, interviews, podcast and creator suite feeds from both studios — all of it lands in L6 at once.
From L6, the program goes two ways: back out across every screen in the building — exterior displays, the LED board, monitors in every room — and out live to any platform, all over the country.
Every feed, one control room, two directions at once — inside the building and out to the country.
Honest About Where We Are.
Confident About Where This Goes.
Shear Media Studios wasn't originally designed as an esports arena. It was designed to be something more flexible. And almost everything we've done since opening has moved us closer to exactly what a serious esports tournament needs.
We are not positioning SMS as an established esports arena yet. We are building toward becoming a Tampa Bay destination for small- to mid-sized esports tournaments, collegiate competitions, invitationals, league events, creator tournaments, and live gaming productions.
And we're looking for our first dedicated esports partner to build the first one with us.
What We've Already Proven.
We're not asking you to imagine what this facility can become. These productions already happened here.
Produced from St. Petersburg and transmitted wherever it needs to go. Players, audience and commentators here — engineering from anywhere.
Studio G transformed — sometimes within eight hours — into a nightclub-scale rave environment. A blank canvas with production infrastructure already underneath it.
Talent and audiences move through the building, with backstage spaces and studios serving different purposes during the same event.
A four-day live corporate broadcast reaching roughly 10,000 remote viewers, with feeds coming in from devices everywhere and going back out — exactly what esports needs.
The Whole Building
Is the Tournament.
Studio G isn't the product — the entire building is. Players who aren't competing can still be gaming elsewhere. Creators stream. Teams make content. A player can leave the competition floor and walk straight into a professionally lit interview room.
A Full Weekend Event.
Every floor active, all weekend — different parts of the facility running at once.
Sets Built
for the Game.
Purpose-built gaming and cosplay production environments — inside a full broadcast facility. Stage your tournament, brand activation, or content shoot alongside live stream production capability you can't find anywhere else in Tampa Bay.
Competition Ready
5,800 sq ft main stage for player stations, crowd viewing, and live broadcast — simultaneously.
Gaming + Cosplay Sets
Dedicated gaming and cosplay production environments. Shoot, run live, and stream it out — one location, one day.
Live + On-Camera
In-person audience, live stream, VOD — all produced under one roof. Your brand in front of every audience at once.
Over 6,000 Sq Ft of Electrified
Lighting Grid. Already Here.
We own the lighting grid, the power, and the stages — and scale everything else through vendor relationships we already have.
We already work with vendors who bring the additional infrastructure a tournament requires, scaled to the event.
A small esports campus:
- Studio G main tournament
- Studio A secondary stage
- Outdoor fan areas
- Food & vendor areas
- Sponsor activations
- Outdoor LED viewing
St. Petersburg,
in the Heart of Tampa Bay.
The Right First Partner.
Not the biggest championship in the world first — the right small- to mid-sized partner.
We're Looking for Our
First Esports Partner.
For the right partner, we're willing to collaborate closely on venue configuration, production workflow, technology, and economics.
We're not looking for somebody interested in renting a room. We're looking for somebody who wants to build the first one with us.
Bring Us the Tournament.
We'll Build the Rest.
Tournaments, content shoots, brand activations — we'll spec the right setup for your event.
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