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Robert Kraft is launching a new team in Boston, which will compete as a charter member of a new international league.Kraft, who is already the owner of the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots in the NFL and the founder of the New England Revolution in the MLS, is now being hailed as a charter owner in the "Overwatch League.">> Download the FREE WMUR app"Overwatch" is a video game that features two opposing teams of six players fighting in a futuristic setting, competing for the most kills or to complete tasks like capturing the opposing team's flag. The game is produced by Blizzard Entertainment, which is behind the creation of the new league."Having 30 million players and this point, just, this evolution really appeals to us -- the concept of having a team in the new England region," Kraft said in an interview with Bloomberg, which reported that founding the team will cost a $20 million franchise fee over time."We haven’t really gotten into the details of the operating costs, but when you look at the way we structured the league, the operating costs should be a lot lower than what you'd see in other, traditional sports," Bobby Kotick, Activision Blizzard CEO, said during the same interview.Other teams in the new league will be based in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Orlando, Shangai and Seoul.For the league's first season, matches will be played in Los Angeles, the organization said. Their goal is to prepare venues to host home and away matches for future seasons."Teams will all receive an equal share of net revenues from league-wide advertising, ticketing, and broadcast rights deals; at the same time, they will keep all local revenues up to a set amount each year (past that amount, a portion of the local revenues will go back into the league-wide shared pool for teams)," the league said.The league has not yet announced a competition schedule or ticket sales plan.Kraft was No. 315 on Forbes' 2017 list of the world's billionaires, with a net worth of $5.1 billion.