An Intro to an Intro.

                       So before I began on the weekly news and updates of the eSport world, I figured it would be best to at least explain what eSports is in todays society, and how it has grown to be one of the largest growing trends in my lifetime. But first lets talk about where it all began. The eSports industry or competitive playing has existed for as long as video games have existed. From the earlier games such as Space Invaders, came one of the first, if not the first gaming competition held by Atari in 1980. Afterwards came a huge influx of different competitions that would range across all platforms. However the eSports era did not fully bloom until the early 2000's, where the gaming industry had grown both in size and developed new technology to play more advance games. With computers become smaller, more compacted, and more powerful at this time, the PC era had official dominated much of the games being played. It was in 2000 where one of the largest competitions at this time had taken place under a game called Quake. The game itself was being played at a competitive level, with nearly 2,000 competitors, each of them fought one another in order to win a new Ferrari from the owner of Quake.

                     Fast forward to today's time, MOBAs or Massive Online Battle Areas, have become of the largest and most popular form of eSports that the world has ever seen. A couple of these games includes League of Legends and Dota 2, are being played on a multinational level with millions of daily users playing the games. For instance, League of Legends has broken a multitude of records held by a game, including being of the most played games, and also holds one of most views in its competitive format. In 2015, LoL held one of their largest championship competitions, with an astounding 360 million views over the course of a week in which the competition was being held. The prize pool, 2.13 million dollars to the winning team.