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A New Game is here
A new challenger has risen, a completely new sport, an alternate career choice that can lead into a new future for young kids and adults. This is alternate e-sports (electronic sports), The sport of playing video games at the professional level. It may look be weird think that playing video games at the professional level. People may think that any kind of video games can be a sport. Pay close attention towards E-sports it is like those tradition sports. Therefore e-sports should be considered as a sport, and the reason why is it has same traits as other traditional sports. First of all, E-sports may lack the physical traits but it has the same teamwork structure, skills, and requirement to be mentally strong. E-sports focus …show more content…

Although, it takes a lot of teamwork to be able to win a game. In the game Overwatch, it is a 6v6 game (six players against another six players) and it has four types of position to play. The game in general is played in away where the team kills their opponent, pushing the point, and creating synergy with their teammates. Like any team-base sports, you need to have good knowledge with your teammates and good synergy with them. Jason Gay stated in article Mark Cuban who said “Cuban wrote in an e-mail. “It’s intense. It’s a workout. The hand-eye coordination is at levels that rival baseball. It’s strategic. It’s teamwork.”. coming from a NBA owner who understand the traditional sports, and who knew the players were working hard for themselves. An E-sports player must practice countless hours and come …show more content…

The E-sports team are getting massive support from the likes of people such as NBA stars. There are groups of NBA star, even company CEO’s, who are investing into E-sports teams to help improve the organization as whole. Shaquille O’Neal who invest into NRG a E-sports team and Rick Fox (Retired NBA player) who create his own E-sports team called Echo Fox. Chris Tribbey stated with interview with Mike Bembenek he said “The E-sports championship Series (ECS) is very much like a traditional sports broadcasts and draws heavy parallels to the NFL, FI or the NBA. Teams and players have their own bands to promote while the league has its own key sponsors.” Turner studios have made their own league and created E-league a new live event broadcast on TBS. E-sports content has been through online stream. All the tournaments creating a spread around the world. This create connection with audience to have chat right next to tournaments and using social media to tell the audience when the events is happing (Tribbey, Chris) Big sponsorships come to help E-league, one them were Arby’s help pay for team’s food and promote their food. This year during E-league a team named Astrailis was sponsor by Audi it shows how much the big products names are coming to join into E-sports. This was great for the E-sports team and their sponsorships showing