Esports

Aaron Gordon
Conor Rabbett
Quick topics
◦ Definition - Esports (also known as electronic sports, e-sports, or eSports) is a form of competition using video games. Esports often takes the
form of organized, multiplayer video game competitions, particularly between professional players, individually or as teams.

◦ Is Esports a real sport? -Due to this change, professional competitive gaming (known as Esports) is real sport. To argue that games participating
in sports are not considered a real sports would be ridiculous. A sport such as football and an esport such as “Dota 2” both require the same kind of
concentration, training, and competitiveness.

◦ Biggest Esports Games- 2019 Fortnite World Cup ($100 million prize money),League of Legends World Championship, The International, Call of
Duty World League (CWL), IEM Katowice ,The Overwatch League, HALO World Championship, PUBG Global Championship.

◦ First esports- The first eSports event happened all the way back in the October of 1972 at Stamford University where students competed on the
video game Spacewar. The grand prize for the winner was a year long subscription to the Rolling Stones magazine. However, it wasn't until 1980
whereby the first video game competition was held

◦ How much money is in esports? -The value of the global “esports economy”—a shorthand for a combination of sponsorship, merchandise, ticket,
media and content rights, advertising and game publisher fee dollars—will top $900 million in 2018, up more than 38% from last year, according to a
report released Wednesday by Newzoo
Storyline
◦ First Esports Tournament

◦ The first eSports event happened all the way back in the October of 1972 at Stamford University where students competed on the video game Spacewar. The grand prize for the
winner was a year long subscription to the Rolling Stones magazine. However, it wasn’t until 1980 whereby the first video game competition was held. The Space Invaders
Championship had a great attendance of 10,000 participants and received widespread media attention since Space Invaders (the game of the tournament) was a household name
at that point of time. (Compare and Contract to up to date tournament)

◦ When 1990s came around, it saw the rise of the now indispensable internet and the world wide web. The internet did for gaming what it did for instant messaging, it connected
gamers through the web so that now online competitive gaming was made possible. Internet connectivity also gave rise to the growth in popularity of PC games and companies
such as Nintendo and Blockbuster began sponsoring video game world championships around this time.

◦ In 1997, the Red Annihilation tournament for the former famous “Quake game” was held which dew in about 2000 participants. It is widely regarded as the world’s first eSports
event. The winner also got to drive off in John Cormack’s (lead developer of Quake) Ferrari as the grand prize!

◦ In 2003 this was the first year the prize money was over 1 Million in total

◦ In 2013 the highest earning was S4 and made $327 Thousand and that’s when big investors found this and gave it the push it needed to become a big thing

◦ In 2014 the highest earning player was Hao who was a Dota 2 player and made 1.1 Million the increase from 2013 to 2014 is just under 3X the amount and this is where it started
to grow

◦ 2017

◦ The total esports prize money awarded out amounted to $110.6 million from a total of 3765 tournaments according to the esportsearnings.com website. The biggest prize pool
from a single tournament? A whopping $24.6 million at The International 2017.
Esports events
◦ E3 (LA, US)

◦ INSOMINA (Birmingham, UK)

◦ GAMES COM (Cologne, Germany)

◦ CWL (London, UK – LA US)

◦ LOL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP (Europe, Korea, China, Turkey ETC)

◦ OWWL (Philadelphia, US)

◦ This shows how world wide Esports is

Services connected to Esports
◦ Sponcers (AMD, Intel, Red Bull, GFuel) world wide
and local

◦ Streaming unlike football most esports tournaments

are streamed online on Twitch, Mixer and Facebook
Gaming

◦ Careers

◦ Publicity

◦ Job opportunities for editors, camera men ,casters and

many more
Sources
◦ https://medium.com/@BountieGaming/the-history-and-evolution-of-esports-8ab6c1cf3257

◦ https://esportsobserver.com/china-esports-2020/