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Debriefing Esports is an official sport.
Are you serious?
10 cards 09: 32, June 10, 2016
1.
What happened?
2. Are you kidding?
Is this a sport?
3. Esports competitions are held for all games?
4. Is anyone really ready to watch other people play games?
5. What are the most popular games?
6. Is esports popular in Russia?
7. Where can I watch esports tournaments?
Are the tickets expensive?
8. Are cybersportsmen unwashed guys with thick glasses?
9. Is esports not harmful?
10. But after all, esports players also get less money?
01 What happened?
In Russia, esports (competitions in computer games) are officially recognized as a sport.
02 Are you kidding?
Is this a sport?
Yes, this is a sport.
Computer games competitions have all the formal features of a" traditional " sport.
There are teams, fans, tournaments, uniform rules and broadcasts.
The Russian Ministry of Sports has clear criteria by which a particular sport is officially recognized.
For example, sports should " promote the physical and intellectual development of a person's abilities, improve his motor activity and form a healthy lifestyle."
The official list includes a large number of sports that many would call strange, for example, "cheerleading" and "Yakut national jumps".
One can argue about how much esports meets all these criteria, but computer games, according to which tournaments are held, certainly require both intelligence and a good reaction and develop motor activity.
03 Are esports competitions held for all games?
No.
The game must meet certain conditions — it is important, for example, that it is possible to put the players in initially equal conditions.
The success of esports disciplines (that is, different games) is determined by the number of professional teams, tournaments and the number of people who are ready to watch these tournaments.
04 Is anyone really ready to watch other people play games?
Yes, indeed.
The main matches of major tournaments are watched by millions of people.
For example, the final match of the League of Legends 2016 World Championship was shown on ESPN — and it was watched by 36 million people.
Tournaments are increasingly held at sports stadiums, gathering tens of thousands of spectators in the stands.
Fans watch a multi player video game competition during The International Dota 2 Championships at Key Arena in Seattle, Washington, US August 8, 2015.
Photo: Jason Redmond / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA
Millions of people subscribe to the pages of popular teams on social networks.
They produce branded clothing lines and even create their own media.
05 What are the most popular games?
Right now there are four leading esports disciplines in the world:
League of Legends and Dota 2 are team strategies where you need to destroy the opponent's throne.
CS: GO is a new modification of the classic team shooter Counter Strike.
Hearthstone is a card game (we are talking about collectible cards, not aces and threes) based on the world of Warcraft.
At the same time, there are many very popular games that have not yet been able to become successful from the point of view of esports, for example, World of Tanks.
06 Is esports popular in Russia?
Yes.
And here we need to make a reservation right away: it is important that esports is popular not just in Russia, but among the Russian speaking audience roughly speaking, in the countries of the former USSR.
This is what allows Russian language broadcasts to gather an audience of 200 thousand people.
Tournament organizers easily sell out all tickets, and esports commentators on social networks have more subscribers in VKontakte than Dmitry Guberniev.
There are also very famous esports players in Russia — for example, Dmitry Kupriyanov, the first Dota 2 world champion.
Or Denis Kostin, who plays for one of the most popular teams in the world — the Ukrainian team Natus Vincere — and constantly gets into the lists of the best CS: GO players.
07 Where can I watch esports tournaments?
Are the tickets expensive?
You can watch the broadcasts on the Internet, it's free.
One of the main advantages of esports is the general availability of broadcasts.
No regional restrictions, paid subscriptions or satellite dishes.
You only need the Internet.
99% of tournaments can be watched for free in the game itself — you just need to install it.
You can also watch matches in the esports streaming service Twitch.tv.
Or you can just go to YouTube.
08 Esports players unwashed guys with thick glasses?
No.
Modern professional esports players are not much different from football players or hockey players — they can easily be filmed for the covers of glossy magazines.
This is how, for example, Ryan Freakazoid Abadir from the Echo Fox CS: GO team looks like.
09 Is esports not harmful?
No more than sitting in front of a computer in the office.
If we compare it with football or weightlifting, esports is even safer: there are almost no injuries here.
In addition, unlike ordinary athletes, esports athletes rarely have to sacrifice their education for the sake of a career.
10 But after all, esports players also get less money?
No, it's not like that.
The best professional athletes receive hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Tournaments attract huge audiences, so advertising in broadcasts brings serious profit.
The prize fund of the Dota 2 World Championship is $ 12 million and continues to grow.
Author: Yaroslav Komkov, head of the "Esports" project at Sports.ru
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