5. ...

7. What is a sport?

8. A sport is a physical activity
engaged in for pleasure

9. A sport is an activity involving
physical exertion and skill in
which an individual or a team
competes against another or
others

10. PHYSICAL!!!

11. Why do we love sports?

12. SHAQ WINS!

13. FUN! ( to watch )

14. Great Dunk!

17. 100 Champions

19. Hanover, Germany

20. LOL tournament 2012
● 5000 attendees
● 3000 waited in line outside
the convention
● 2.2 million online viewers

21. League of Legends has 32
million registered players
12.5% of these players play
an average of 3 hours per day

22. ● Competitive Gaming failed mass
recognition in the U.S. In the
years 2007 and 2008

23. NEIN! NEIN! NEIN! NEIN!!!

24. Competitive gaming is not just
one genre!

25. SHOOTERS

26. Real Time Strategy

27. FIGHTING

28. MULTIPLAYER ONLINE BATTLE
ARENA

29. The world's leading video game
broadcasting network

30. ● TwitchTV amassed an audience
of 16 million viewers in February
2012
● Audiences combined spent 2.1
billion minutes watching videos on
the site

32. Is there money in
competitive gaming?

34. Business Wire
● In the 2011 eSports season,
teams brought home more
than 2 million dollars in
winnings

35. How about other opportunites?

36. ● Annual Twitch and Alienware
Scholarship
● On September 6, 2012, Twitch awarded
50 thousand dollars in sholarships to the
winners of the competition
● Criteria for winning is based on spanning
academic and gaming achievements

37. So what good will it be for the
U.S. If competitive gaming
becomes a legitimate sport?

38. Entertainment Software Board
Statistics
● 67% of the US household plays
video games
● The 2010 average gamer spends
8 hours a week playing video
games

39. ● Put the video gaming time
to good use
● Get a job, be a professional
gamer!

40. George “HotshotGG”
Georgallidis

41. What does physical have to do
with it? Nothing!!!

42. Too fat too furious!!!

43. A world where competitive
gaming is a sport is a utopia!

45. Thanks and Happy gaming!