Esports is the present and future and the industry is expected to proliferate in years to come. Here in this article, we will dive deep into the top 10 landmark achievements in the history of Electronic Sports in detail:
- On 19th October 1972, a video game competition was held at Stanford University for the game Spacewar. All the students of Standford were invited to participate in the “Intergalactic Spacewar Olympics” where the winner received a year-long subscription to Rolling Stone.
- Sega organized a Japan TV gaming championship in 1974, which was a nationwide arcade video game tournament where the tournament was held across 300 locations and eventually 16 finalists competed against each other for the final battle held at Tokyo’s Hotel Pacific.
- Atari organized “Space Invader Championship” was touted as early large scale video game event which attracted the eyeballs of more than 10,000 participants across United States.
Let’s revise the important highlights of the history of video games in detail
- In 1984, International Track and Field arcade game competition was jointly held by Konami and Centuri which drew the attention of million players across Japan and North America.
- Esports events were televised for the first time from 1982 to 1984 , popularly known as “Starcade” where total 133 episodes were aired in which contestants attempt to beat each other high scores in arcade game.
- In April 2006, Federation was formed by seven biggest prominent Counter Strike Teams and termed as “G7 Teams” .
- Television coverage was firmly established in South Korea with competitions related to Starcraft and Warcraft III were televised 24 by 7 on cable TV channels Ongament and MBC game.
- League of Legends Championship was held by 2014, in Seoul, South Korea where more than 400,000 fans were present during opening and closing ceremony of marquee event.
- In 2015, first dedicated Esports facility was launched at Santa Ana, California, United States.
- In 2021, China announced a law which stated that minors would not be given permission to play Video games, where they will be not allowed to play more than three hours a week as China is one of the largest market in video games so this law might dampen the flourishing growth rate of Esports in the world.
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