General information about cyber sport and its history

Development of e-Sports

At the end of the XX century organizers of computer battles conducted a series of tournaments. As a result, professional leagues begin to appear.

Among them are the following:

● Cyberathlete Professional League;

● Professional Gamers League.

As a result, e-Sports began to conquer the world and spread to different countries. Some competitions began to be held on a regular basis, because they gathered as many spectators as traditional sports. The most common ones were the Counter-Strike and Quake tournaments. In addition, cyber sports have a huge place in betting

• In the early 2000s there was a cybersports boom in South Korea. Virtually the entire young population of the country, from schoolchildren and students to young professionals, are battling it out in virtual games. These battles take place in internet cafes that pop up like mushrooms after the rain. Eventually, after some time, South Korea systematized cyber sports in the framework of the law and became the first country to do so.
• International competitions
• Every year international cybersports tournaments are held in different countries. The games are broadcast online via the Internet so that fans all over the world can watch the battles. The World Cyber Games competition can be rightfully considered to be the Olympic Games of cybersports. Similar tournaments have been held every year since the turn of the millennium.
• Some popular game producers hold their own separate tournaments with large prize pools. These include The International for Dota 2 and League of legends. Not so long ago the World Association of e-Sports was created. The annual turnover of money in this discipline is 5 billion dollars.

The earliest known video game competition took place on 19 October 1972 at Stanford University for the game Spacewar.[11] Stanford students were invited to an "Intergalactic spacewar olympics" whose grand prize was a year's subscription for Rolling Stone, with Bruce Baumgart winning the five-man-free-for-all tournament and Tovar and Robert E. Maas winning the team competition.