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Confessions of a Digital Dinosaur: Esports Is the Next Great Traditional Sport
- yarapavan 8y agoSee Ben Clarson's post introducing the topic - http://awealthofcommonsense.com/2018/07/something-i-changed-my-mind-about-recently/ http://awealthofcommonsense.com/2018/07/something-i-changed-... Highlights from the article: - More people in the 18-25 years old age group regularly watch and play esports than any other traditional sport. - A small town in Poland hosted an event this year that was watched live by people from 180 different countries. The audience was 3x as large as it was for the most recent MLB World Series. More people attended this event in person than the last 3 Super Bowls combined. - The esports audience in Asia is 4x larger than it is in the U.S., so this is truly a global phenomenon. - One event in a tournament called the League of Legends was viewed by 80 million fans. - Twitch is one of the streaming services that allows people to view these events. The service already has a bigger audience than CNN or MSNBC. They get more than 15 million daily unique viewers. They’re owned by Amazon (because of course, Bezos was on top of this trend before anyone else). - The video gaming audience is 5x the size of Netflix subscribers. - There’s a league called Overwatch which has teams owned by people who already own a professional sports team. This list includes Robert Kraft (New England Patriots), Jeff Wilpon (New York Mets), Stan Kroenke (LA Rams and Denver Nuggets) and Dave Scott (Philadelphia Flyers). The teams cost them $20 million a piece.