The Importance Of Technology In E-Sports

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Today, because of advanced technology a lot of things has changed. New things are invented. Mail have become e-mail, cellular phones become smartphones and internet becomes our best friend. Those are some of the changes brought by technology. Have you ever thought these advancement of technology can bring a new form of sport? Competitive gaming, sometimes called as E-Sports or Electronic sports by fans and spectators – is a form of sports where the primary aspects of the sport are facilitated by electronic systems (Hamari & Sjoblom, 2015). It is like playing five-dimensional chess against the world (Cuban, 2016). It is not like the traditional sports we’ve seen, but the essence of a sport is also present in E-Sports. E-Sports is starting to hit our mainstream consciousness. It is starting to gain attention around the world, hitting the front page of a new papers and headlines of the news. E-Sports is starting to get big. 205 million people are watching an E-Sports event worldwide (Kreese,2015) and the E-Sports market is expected to grow $1.1 billion (Takahashi, 2016). There are E-Sports events with prize pool as high as $18,000,000, because of these number a lot of people are starting to invest in E-Sports. The Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban invested in E-Sports startup Unikrn (unicorn), a platform currently focused on betting in the growing competitive gaming industry as part of a series A round of investment worth over $7 million. (Lingle, 2015). Alibaba, world’s

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