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The Very First Gaming Tournament
Gaming Company Atari held the first gaming tournament for the game Space Invaders on the Atari 2600. Over 10,000 players played the games. -
Nintendo World Championships
Deem the biggest video game tournament of the 90's. It held thousands of competitors in the hopes of getting the highest score in games like Super Mario Bros, Rad Racers, and Tetris. It had a $10,000 cash prize for the winner
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Red Annihilation
This was a tournament for the popular First Person Shooter Quake. It was sponsosered by Micirosoft and the winner got a ferrari as the grand prize. This tournament had 2000 participants. photoc credit Clanreddragon.com -
Cyberathlete Professional League comes to be.
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World Cyber Games
A South Korean eSport league, its was the one of the first international champions -
The MLG is Created
One of eSports biggest and well-known organizaitons til this day. Turning eSports into a mainstream event by offering a lucrative prizepool and they even managed to get one of their tournaments televised. -
CPL World Tours
A year long tour with a total prize pool of 1 million dollars for the grand prize winner. -
The Match-Fixing Scandal
On May 16th, 2010, a horrible match-fixing scandal surfaced in Korea involving 11 different players, including what was considered one of the best Starcraft players of all time: Savi0r. Players fixed matches to gain biggest cash payouts. -
The League of Legends World Championship
Biggest prize pool for any eSports tournament of all time, totalling to around 2 Million dollars. The grand prize was 1 Million dollars -
U.S.A. government officallly announces League of Legned Players as Pro Athletes
