How esports changed the world

 The era of esports gaming first starts in 19 October 1972 when 24 players met each other to compete 'Spacewar’. This tournament avenue was at Stanford University. As the time passes electronic sports isn’t stopping it was growing it become such a major factor that even rich business and celebrities started to invest in this.

Where it begins

Gaming performed a major aspects in our life. Game was first invent in October 1958 by a physician name William Higinbotham and by the time goes more people came to know about the games and they started to invent it .As the time passes more games being invented and more competitiveness grow. People started to believe that they are better than the others in game so they held a tournament just like any other sports where nations compete with each other for the prize pool.

Competitive Games

There are several games that are being played competitively.Most popular competitive games are CS:GO,dota2,league of legends,pubg,call of duty,Fortnite,world of warcraft and overwatch.These games by far is the most popular game of 2021.Players earned $6,974,817.80 (dota2) of huge amount just by playing this games.There is no doubt that every parents wants to be their child a esports player.

Esports organisations

So what are esports organisations?

These are the organisations that hire a player that is better in the game and formed a team of better players.These organisations paid their players salaries over a million US dollars and a cut of the winning prize pool.A player named Johan Sundstein earned 6.97 million US dollars just by playing a game in his computer.There are many famous esports organisations like Fazeclan,Tsm,optic gaming,Teamliquid,100thieves,Navi,Astralis,Gambit esports and many more.These organisations won over millions of US dollars just by competing in tournament qnd and winning it.These organisations also get sponsored by energy drinks like gfuel , Redbull and also by tech companies like logitech,Razer etc.

Celebrities evolved in esports

Gaming is liked by everyone which is why celebrities get evolved in esports.In November 2016 former call of duty professional player Matt 'Nadeshot' Haag announce his own esports organisation called '100 thieves '.This organisations instantly gain fame because of their merch,Star studded players and social media. Everyone was talking about organisations who gain high level popularity overnight,So Drake world famous pop star decided to invest in this organisation.

Apart from that many celebrities like former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal, MLB former player Jimmy Rollins got involved in esports organisations called 'NRG'.This organisation has teams of six games which include CS:GO,Smite,Overwatch,Super Smash Bros and more. Their Smite team won the world championship in January.

Esports Watching

There are millions of people that like to watch gaming just like any other sports.Tournament of CS:GO, Fortnite, Dota 2 , league of legends reach views of 200k+ when every team tries their best to win and show spectators their true potential. These tournament streams on Twitch. Twitch is a website/app that streams video games tournaments and steamers that create content live. League of legends reached 157.0 million views on Twitch which is pretty impressive numbers while CS:GO reached 70.1 million views and dota 2 reached 49.8 million views.

Total Revenue of esports

Esports market is growing day by day in 2019 esports revenue generates over 957.5 million US dollars and in 2020 because of Covid-19 it reaches 947.1 million US dollars. It's number isn't stopping in 2021 it generated 1,084.1 million US dollars and expected to reach 1,617.7 million US dollars in 2024.