Technology Trend - eSports!
Playing video games competitively... for money? Not long ago, this would be considered a blasphemy. Today, the eSports community is alive and growing at exponential rates. Competing with the prize pools and viewership numbers of professional sports like football, baseball, and basketball, eSports across the board and becoming a mainstream form of competition and entertainment for the younger generation. Professional eSport tournaments for games like Call of Duty and Counter Strike have been making enormous strides in becoming mainstream as they have both recently been showcased to the world as official X-Games events where teams competed for medals! Other eSports, like DOTA 2 and League of Legends have had tournaments with prize pools that combat those of professional golf tournaments. eSports are going to change media as we know it very soon. No longer will we be stuck to seeing only basketball and other sports on ESPN, soon we will see coverage of eSports teams and their events!
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/how-esports-is-becoming-a-legitimate-sport/0127144
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