Major League Gaming

Carlos Lightsey Financial Management of Sport 4/29/15 Major League Gaming: Growing and Healthy or Not The first indicator in this millennium of where a company is going is how they are doing on social media. Social Media has become one of the biggest ways to market your company or yourself across the world. Major League gaming is doing great in the area of social media already. They have 951 thousand followers on twitter alone. They have 832 thousand followers on Facebook. They also have

Imagine that more than twenty years ago people didn’t even know about professional competitive gaming. They would never think that in the future eSport (electronic sport), would be growing up extremely fast. “Last year, tournaments awarded more than $15 million around the world, up from just over a $1 million a decade ago” (Holden 87) according to the statistics from the esportsearnings.com. Just think about it, the first place team can be guaranteed to get at least $1 million dollars, and this is

event such as the NBA Finals, the World Series, Stanley Cup Finals or even the World Cup Final. However, none of these events are what is being depicted. What is actually being illustrated is the finals for numerous Esports competitions such as the League of Legends World Championship or the StarCraft World Championship Series. Ever since the first invention of video games, there has always been a stigma that came with being a gamer. Gamers have always been labeled as geeky, nerdy, immature, and even

enough replayability to spend thousands of hours playing them and never get bored. Games such as Dota2 and League of Legends only have one primary map, but they still present the opportunity to play them for limitless amounts of time because of the variance in characters. The number of different team combinations in League of Legends is over 1.16 with 21 zeros behind it. Every game of League takes around half an hour, which means that if you never played with the same champions twice it would take

Mail have become e-mail, cellular phones become smartphones and internet becomes our best friend. Those are some of the changes brought by technology. Have you ever thought these advancement of technology can bring a new form of sport? Competitive gaming, sometimes called as E-Sports or Electronic sports by fans and spectators – is a form of sports where the primary aspects of the sport are facilitated by electronic systems (Hamari & Sjoblom, 2015). It is not like the traditional sports we’ve seen

be learned in school, a player must remember as much as they can or they can lose out on a lot of opportunities. If 16 characters isn’t enough, the previous version of the game had 44 characters and if the game genre is changed to something such as League of Legends, there are 129 characters to choose from. On top of amount of character variations to choose from, the amount of players changed from a one versus one setting to five versus five, meaning instead of applying data on a possible one versus

sport? Cameron,Junkins April/7/16 What if I told you that VideoGames is a sport? Do you agree? I strongly agree that Gaming should be a sport. I believe so because it requires skill, strategy,and team effort. Esports players known as “Gamers” train for hours including days, till they have their tournaments. ESports is rising higher and higher each year, for an example “Last year’s League of Legends tournament peaked at 11.2 million viewers, for example, whereas the NHL Finals only hit 8 million.” That

jin ho, they started to lead the field by winning numerous amount of tournaments with their incredible skills. Unfortunately, as the time pass by, people lost their interest on Starcraft, yet esports have not met its end yet. Nowadays, with new game League of Legend and one of the popular progamer Faker is still leading the Renaissance of e-sports. These celebrities, with their passion and skill in their field were large enough to influence others to also become passionate of their field and eventually

His Millions of views of videos on YouTube came when he released his first single “Knock Knock.”From Twitter to Facebook to Youtube, Miller has then built a deep fan base with high-energy. When he released "Best Day Ever" for free on the Internet early 2011, it did over 200,000 downloads in the weekend of release. Mac has nearly 230,000 Twitter followers at this time which is nothing compared to his current 5.2 Million. However does obviously show he’s blowing up with his cultivating fan base, views

Do you know what eSports is? Many people in the world do not know what eSports is, but millions and millions of people each year are tuning in to watch professional video gamers compete for trophies and prizes. To put this into perspective, anyone can become a professional gamer and make a good living off of it. Although, you must have good skill at the game and be prepared to practice long hours on a regular basis. I will inform you of what eSports is, the growth, and lastly the present and future