Introduction to eSports

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The Rise of eSports

Amazingly, the League of Legends Season 3 World Championship had 32 million viewers. That’s more than the MLB World Series viewership and the NCAA Basketball Final Four viewership COMBINED! Competitive gaming is on the rise worldwide, and it looks like there is no stopping it. It has gotten so big that the U.S. has even started grating eSports athletes professional athlete visas. In Korea, more than half of the population plays online games. In a way, that’s an almost insane number to think about.

But, there’s no arguing with the facts – competitive gaming is the future. Gamer or not, in the coming years it will be hard to not see matches on TV or online



Read more: http://www.gamerheadlines.com/2014/04/the-rise-of-esports-or-why-you-should-be-a-gamer/#ixzz2yIp92v00