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VOL.
2016

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E-Sports is massive ... and growing!

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stories like this one: Open with a
stadium full of screaming fans.
Zoom in on the contestants,
sweating from the intensity of the
competition. Then comes the
incredulous reveal: This isn't
basketball or boxing or even
billiards. It's eSports-and the
"athletes" are headset-wearing,
energy-drink-guzzling
gamers.
More than 20 years after the first
video game tournaments, top
eSports tourneys now draw
audiences that rival the biggest
traditional
sporting
events;
popular midweek live streams
routinely attract more than
100,000 online viewers. Coke and
Nissan have joined Logitech and
Red Bull as tournament sponsors.
Gaming is what every traditional
sports league is desperate to
become: young, global, digital and
increasingly diverse. So can it ever
be a sport? Does it matter?
eSports are here. They're real.
They're growing.

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