Multiplayer Online Battle Arena First Person Shooter Real-time Strategy Fighting

1. The new-era of gaming
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2. eSports
Outline:
Multiplayer Online Battle Arena
First Person Shooter
Real-time Strategy
Fighting
A multiplayer video game played competitively for spectators
typically by professional gamers
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3. Multiplayer
Online Battle
Arena
DotA 2, League of Legends,
SMITE, Heroes of the Storm
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4. First-Person
Shooter
Counter-Strike: Global
Offensive, Battlefield, Call of
Duty
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5. Real-time
Strategy
Starcraft II, Age of Empire, Red
Alert, Yuri’s Revenge
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6. Fighting
Street Fighter, Super Smash
Bros, Marvel vs Capcom
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7. eSports doesn’t
need TV.
TV needs
eSports
● Los Angeles’s Staples Center sold out for the
League of Legends world championships in an
hour. Thousands of hardcore gaming fans filled the
arena to watch the best players in the world
compete for a $1 million prize
● The 2012 League of Legends World
Championships, which drew 8.2 million viewers.
That's more than the first round of the 2013 MLB
Playoffs which averaged 3.9 million viewers on
TBS. For context, Game 7 of the 2013 NBA finals,
in which the Miami Heat beat the San Antonio
Spurs, averaged nearly 17.7 million viewers.
● The biggest esports event ever, the League of
Legends 2013 World Championships, topped off at
32 million viewers
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8. eSports
Audience
Growth Global
2014-2016
● 2014 - 114 Million Occasional Viewers
● 2014 - 90 Million Enthusiasts
● 2015 - 111 Million Occasional Viewers
● 2015 - 115 Million Enthusiasts
● 2016 - 125 Million Occasional Viewers
● 2016 - 131 Million Enthusiasts
Reference: https://newzoo.com/insights/articles/global-esports-
market-report-revenues-to-jump-to-463-million-in-2016-as-us-
leads-the-way/
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9. eSports
Revenue
Growth Global
2014-2016
● 2014 - $194 Million
● 2015 - $325 Million (+67.4% YoY)
● 2016 - $464 Million (+42.6% YoY)
● Projected revenue for 2017 - $1072 Million (+40.7%
YOY)
Reference: https://newzoo.com/insights/articles/global-esports-
market-report-revenues-to-jump-to-463-million-in-2016-as-us-
leads-the-way/
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10. Top 3 Highest
eSports
earnings
● 1. Saahil “UNiVeRsE” Arora =
$2,720,623.84
● 2. Peter “ppd” Dager = $2,618,120.36
● 3. Sumail “SumaiL” Hassan =
$2,401,426.34
Reference: http://www.esportsearnings.com/players
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11. Top 3 Highest
Earnings under
18 years old
● 1. Sumail “SumaiL” Hassan =
$2,401,426.34
Age: 15
2. Ludwig “Zai” Wahlberg = $465,923.32
Age: 16
3. Lee, “Life” Seung Hyun = $354,071.79
Age: 14
Reference: http://www.esportsearnings.com/players
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12. Biggest
Investors in
eSports
● Steve Aoki
● Alisher Usmanov
● Magic Johnson
● Mark Cuban
Reference: http://www.highsnobiety.com/2016/10/13/esport-
investors/
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13. Steve Aoki ● Steve Aoki - “As many of my fans
know, I’ve been a gamer all of my life
and have been getting more and
more involved in eSports, I can finally
take my love for gaming to the next
level as an owner of Rogue, the
professional eSports team. As an
avid player of Overwatch, their
dominance caught my eye and after
getting to know them, I realized that
we shared the same goals and
interest in team building and
competition.”
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14. Alisher Usmanov
● Alisher Usmanov - Russia’s richest
man with an estimated net worth of
$14.7 billion, in 2015 he proved he
wanted full autonomy when he gave
a staggering $100 million to top
Russian eSports team Virtus.pro
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15. Magic Johnson
● Magic Johnson - Is a part of an
investment team including three more
NBA Team co-owners and took
controlling interest of Team Liquid
one of the biggest names in eSports
with 50 players competing on 10
teams on Starcraft II, League of
Legends and DotA 2.
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16. Mark Cuban
● Mark Cuban - Dallas Mavericks
owner, Mark Cuban, was part of a
team that invested $7 million in
Seattle start-up “Unikrn” which offers
wagering on competitive video game
tournaments based around games
like League of Legends, DotA 2 and
CS:GO.
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17. eSports Timeline
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESports
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18. 1972-1980
The earliest known video
game competition took place
on 19 October 1972 at
Stanford University for the
game Spacewar
1990-1999
1990 Nintendo World
Championship, 1994 Nintendo
PowerFest ‘94, PC Games played at
the Cyberathlete Professional
League (CPL) was Counter-Strike
series, Quake and Warcraft
2000
The Korean e-Sports Association
was founded in 2000 to promote and
regulate eSports in the country. Only
10 e-Sports tournaments in 2000
2010
Many successful tournaments were
founded during this period, including
World Cyber Games, the Intel
Extreme Masters and Major League
Gaming and also 260 e-Sports
tournaments in 2010.
2016
The International 2016 game (DotA
2 by Valve) was the highest prize
pool in the history of eSports
tournament with $20,770,640.00
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