... esports become famous as a normal sport?

What if
… esports become famous as a normal sport?
If instead of see some people running after a ball in a field we see a player under a videogames fight between them? If we don’t see a real field but only a very big screen for a virtual match?

The start of esports was in 1972, with the first tournament of Spacewar, a videogames when two spaceships fight one versus one, sponsored by Stanford University. Twenty four person take part in this tournament and the prize is an annual subscription to Rolling Stone.

After forty three years , at Key Arena Center (Seattle) seventeen thousands seats, there was the fifth edition of The International , the world championship tournament of Dota2, an arena game. All ticket was sold out in 5 minutes. The direct was in streaming online and transmitted in four hundred cinema in the United State. Four million and a half people watched the match. The first prize was six million and a half dollars and total prizes are around eighteen million dollars.

Why this grow? There are the diffusion of videogames in the middle occidental class, the explosion of internet availability and the organization on a global scale of professional tournaments. But mostly a word : sports, or better esports.

In a lot of countries they are considered like a real normal sport. For example in Korea some players have the real identity card connect with their virtual identity, and Korean police has created a department only for control match-fixing. Or in America an esports player is considered like an athlete. Also in France, most closer to us, the matches of League of Legends was transmit on salons like for a boxing fighting.

To conclude this reality is actually growing and with the passage of time ever more countries will accept the esports as another sport.