What are E-Sports?
E-sports is a boogie-word thats being slanderously thrown around by news stations on slow days. A spectacle by and for children they say. Its a word synonymous with the death of american values and a swan song for the muscular jocks once sent west to stake their claim. Gone are the days of a father and son throwing the old pigball around and drinking beer made from fermented hotdogs. See you later pops, I'm off to play with my digi-dad. E-sports made 700 million dollars in 2017. Its deadly serious. Light History In 1980 Atari held an event for their game Space Invaders and 10 thousand people showed up. The next year Twin Galaxies started touring the country to visit arcades and collate high scores. As time marched on we moved to multiplayer games like DOOM and Quake. In 1997 a Quake event called Red Annihilation was one of the first nationwide tournaments, attracting around 1,900 applicants. It was held in Atlanta at the World Congress Center (the th