By Mike Montemarano, Associate Editor03.24.21
The culture surrounding competitive video game playing, known today as esports, has burst into the mainstream in recent years, now well-ingrained in the tapestry of pop culture and a full-fledged industry in its own right, on track to surpass $1 billion with most market researchers suggesting a steady CAGR of 9%.
The emergence of competitive gaming into mainstream culture was catalyzed by a number of trends: social media platforms began to serve as a means of allowing competitive gamers, celebrities, and other public figures to efficiently stream their own live gameplay to online audiences; media outlets dedicated to more conventional sports began providing coverage of team-based and solo tournaments for specific games; and tickets to high-profile in person events have reached incredible demand, with certain events gaining enough traction to fill arenas with casual gamers who enjoy seeing games played at the absolute peak of competition.
One tournament, The International 2019, brought together a global bracket of the world’s greatest players of the game “Dota 2,” and was said to have the largest single-tournament prize pool of
The emergence of competitive gaming into mainstream culture was catalyzed by a number of trends: social media platforms began to serve as a means of allowing competitive gamers, celebrities, and other public figures to efficiently stream their own live gameplay to online audiences; media outlets dedicated to more conventional sports began providing coverage of team-based and solo tournaments for specific games; and tickets to high-profile in person events have reached incredible demand, with certain events gaining enough traction to fill arenas with casual gamers who enjoy seeing games played at the absolute peak of competition.
One tournament, The International 2019, brought together a global bracket of the world’s greatest players of the game “Dota 2,” and was said to have the largest single-tournament prize pool of
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