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The first ever e-Sports tournament
It can be said that the first ever eSports tournament was played in Stanford University, and the videogame that was used in this tournament was called “Intergalactic Spacewar Olympics”. -
Space Invaders Championship
The Space Invaders Championship had a great attendance of 10,000 participants and received widespread media attention. in addition, advances in gaming technology began so that digital sports became far more widespread. -
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) takes controls, graphics, gameplay, and accessibility of video games to the comfort of our home. -
SEGA Genesis
SEGA Genesis is released. -
Nintendo World Championships
Nintendo World Championships which involved a thirty city tour in the US and was a big step up from the kind of prize that was offered at the very first contest. -
QuakeCon
One of the first e-sports league are founded. -
Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) and Red Annihilation tournament
Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL), was formed and they held their first tournament later. Furthermore, Professional Gamers League is also founded. The Red Annihilation tournament for the former famous “Quake game” was held which dew in about 2000 participants. It is widely regarded as the world’s first eSports event. -
Starcraft
Starcraft was released. -
e-Sports become mainstream
Internet sports started to become more and more prominent in the mainstream. This was a period where true competitive player vs player games were made and online connections helped create a global competitive gaming community. -
World Cyber Games
World Cyber Games and the Electronic Sports World Cup were launched, followed by the Major League Gaming (MLG) -
Cyberathlete Professional League
The 2005 CPL World Tour focused on the one-on-one deathmatch game Painkiller, and had a total prize purse of $1 millions. -
Worldwide Webgames Championship
FUN Technologies piloted the Worldwide Webgames Championship with 71 players and a$1 million grand prize. -
Wii Games Championship
A tournament that lasts over a month with 400,000 players. -
Twitch
Twitch gives e-Sports a podium to reach a wide range of audience especially for the first international Dota 2 tournament and the first LoL world championship. -
League of Legends Season 2
The League of Legends season 2 World championship had the biggest prize pool for any eSports tournament of all time, totalling to around 2 Million dollars. -
League of Legends as professional sport
As a result of many discussions with the creators of the game, Riot Games and the US government, League of Legends has been recognized as a professional sport. Later on, League of Legends becomes an Olympic Sport. -
Biggest prize pool
The International breaks its own record for the biggest prize pool in all of e-Sports and continue to grow year after year. -
Streaming sites
The rise of streaming sites and multi-player games brings in rapidly growing audience, revenue and as well as players across the world.