eSport PP (Inglise keelne)
eSports
Deivid Armulik
Kadrina Secondary School
2017
What is it?
A.k.a electronic sports
Form of competiton
By electronic systems (video games)
Multiplayer video game competitions
Between professional players
Real-time strategy, fighting, FPS, MOBA
History
19th Oct, 1972
Stanford University
Spacewar
Intergalactic
spacewar olympics
Year's subscription
for Rolling Stone
...
Space Invaders
Chamionship
Atari, 1980
10000 participants
Established
competitive gaming
as a mainstream
hobby
...
Netrek "the first online sports game"
Nintendo World Championships (1990)
Television shows featuring eSports,
GamesMaster
Tournaments in 1990's included Cyberathlete
Professional League, QuakeCon, Professional
Gamers League
CPL: Counter-Strike, Quake series, Warcraft
...
Major growth in 21th century
Viewership, prize money
10 in 2000, 260 in 2010
World Cyber Games, Intel Extreme Masters,