StarCraft professional competition - Wikipedia, the free encyclo. OGN's main studio, is an example of an e-sports stadium, where professional StarCraft is played.
Participation outside of South Korea[edit] There have been commercial attempts to bring televised professional StarCraft matches to audiences outside South Korea. GOM TV has hired Nick "Tasteless" Plott, an American who previously cast StarCraft at the WCG and other international events, to provide English commentary on the 2008 GOM TV Star Invitational and the 2008 Averatec-Intel Classic tournaments.
According to GOM TV statistics, over 1 million viewers watched the GOM TV Star Invitational matches with English commentary.[4] Many StarCraft fans outside South Korea download video files of the pro games to watch on their computer. The Collegiate Starleague is a seasonal intercollegiate league that is modeled after Korea's ProLeague. KeSPA rankings[edit] KeSPA[13] (Korean e-Sports Association) publishes a monthly calculation of rankings based on a point scale.
Match fixing scandal[edit] La Corée du Sud, le royaume de l'e-sport. Seoul — HE confessed to feeling "more nervous than usual" as he waited for his comeback fight to begin, his fingers fiddling inside a hand warmer to ward off the winter chill seeping through the walls of the coliseum.
The Emperor knew he had to keep his fingers loose. A crowd of more than 1,000 people was waiting in the arena, with 1.78 million more watching over the Internet and on TV to see what those fingers could do, or, more to the point, whether they had gone cold in the five months since he disappeared from public view. He is in the air force now. Conscripted. Snatched away from his calling and from the fans who revered him for leading their sport -- no, their passion -- to respectability. In the crowd, teenage girls squealed. It was like Elvis getting out of the Army. The Emperor was back. Lim's skill at playing the futuristic battle game StarCraft has turned him into the first superstar of the e-sports era, South Korea's Babe Ruth of gaming.
Petit résumé. Playing games... for money?
The concept of people playing and competing professionally in computer games is nothing new actually. Around the world there are quite a number of international events such as the Cyberathlete Professional League, the World Cyber Games (run by the Koreans, considered to be the 'Olympics of Cyber Gaming'), as well as the recently completed Electronic Sports World Cup held at the Futuroscope Park in Poitiers, France. There are also tournaments that are played over the internet, as well as local ones that are usually held in cybercafes or gaming pubs. Gamers from around the world have qualifiers in their respective countries and are sponsored to attend such events. One such 'professional gamer' who was featured on MTV recently is Johnathan Wendel who goes by the name Fatal1ty in the games, has made over $100K in a year from gaming.
Websites dedicated to E-Sports such as So Gamed and Cyberfight that cover the events and happenings in the world of E-Sports. Un futur assuré ? Three years ago the future of professional gaming seemed bright.
The big names such as Jonathan ‘Fatal1ty’ Wendell and Sander ‘Vo0’ Kaasjager were earning hundreds of thousands of dollars in competitions. The mainstream media, its interest piqued by the idea of geeks becoming rich through gaming, took notice. MTV had televised the 2005 CyberAthlete Professional League final, and enthusiasts began to imagine a future in which professional gamers would, it was hoped, be revered in the same way as sporting heroes such as David Beckham. Gaming contests would take place in huge arenas before vast crowds of screaming fans, with millions more watching on TV. Sky helped to launch the Championship Gaming Series, and each match was shown on Sky’s mainstream channels, along with channels in the USA and Asia.
The pot of gold at the end of the pro gaming rainbow Maybe not. The Organisations Globally speaking, there are two big names. The WCG’s closest rival is the Electronic Sports World Cup.