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From Periphery to Mainstream – How Esports is Reshaping the Gaming Industry AD

From Periphery to Mainstream – How Esports is Reshaping the Gaming Industry

From your friend’s basement to some of the world’s brightest gaming stages, the esports landscape has expanded at a fascinating rate.

Once a favourite pastime and hobby, esports went on to become a professional videogaming discipline and a global phenomenon. esports commonly take the form of the organized competitions between teams of professional players in real-time strategy, first-person shooter (FPS), fighting and multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games.

Having long lived in the shadow or real-life sports events such as football predominantly – but also hockey which is today venturing into the gaming realm itself – esports continue to thrive on an unweathering popularity with investors, media outlets and general public taking a stronger interest in interactive gaming which has turned into a multimillion dollar industry.

A Look into the Past
Organized esports events date all the way back to 1972 when Stanford University students got engaged in an ‘Intergalactic Spacewar Olympics’ but it wasn’t until the late 2000s that the global popularity of this form of gaming began to grow.

And with tournaments such as The International, the League of Legends World Championship or the Evolution Championship Series, esports is pushing forward to Olympic recognition which is something its founding fathers at Stamford University could only have dreamt about back in 1972.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is beginning to recognize esports as a legitimate sport with participants slowly being compared to athletes in traditional sports. The obstacles remain – with violent gameplay for the most part – but small steps are being taken in hope that esports could be welcomed to the Olympic family ahead of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Japan.

With over 71 million people worldwide following esports, lucrative sponsorship deals with some of the world’s biggest companies such as Toyota or T-Mobile, increased media coverage that exceed the internet framework, even the companies involved in online sports betting are beginning to take notice of this growing sport discipline.

The recent research results and economic trends of the industry show that global esports revenue is estimated to reach close to $2 billion in 2018. That said, the bookmakers now accept bets for various esports events with some of them even placing most of its focus on esports such as GG.Bet as esports continues to build its competitive arm.

Gazing Towards the Future

The very concept of the competition from the participant’s point of view is also changing.
From a yearly subscription for Rolling Stone magazine as top prize back in the Stamford University days to multi-million awards for winners, there is so much to fight for on all fronts.

Esports is rushing bravely into the unknown with participants and competitors doing their fair share to help this discipline grow into the world of sport and spectacle. More importantly it seems, the videogame competitions are reshaping the general perception of what it means to be a professional athlete.

The sport heroes of today earning the plaudits by running, jumping and kicking the ball could in the future move on from chiseled chest figures and evolve into the skilled game gurus, quick on their thumbs and virtually aware beyond comprehension.

Simply put, digital revolution and unstoppable technical advancement are changing the competitive outline, reshaping the sports landscape for good.

Norman Sanders

Norman Sanders

Staff Writer

Norman enjoys writing mostly anything about gaming...

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