# Esports

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Category: Sports
Slides: 32
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:19:24.670Z
Tags: sports, esports

## Summary

Competitive play of videogames, organised at scale, watched as spectator entertainment, with prize money, sponsorships, and broadcast infrastructure that increasingly resembles traditional professional sport. Key sections include: E sports. _; /* opening */ What esports is.; /* chapter i */ Spacewar! at Stanford.; /* chapter ii */ Atari Space Invaders.; /* chapter iii */ QuakeCon and the LAN era.; /* chapter iv */ Korean StarCraft.; /* chapter v */ Lim Yo-hwan.; /* chapter vi */ Lee Young-ho.; /* chapter vii */ Twitch.; /* chapter viii */ League of Legends Worlds..

## Slide Outline

1. E sports. _
2. /* opening */ What esports is.
3. /* chapter i */ Spacewar! at Stanford.
4. /* chapter ii */ Atari Space Invaders.
5. /* chapter iii */ QuakeCon and the LAN era.
6. /* chapter iv */ Korean StarCraft.
7. /* chapter v */ Lim Yo-hwan.
8. /* chapter vi */ Lee Young-ho.
9. /* chapter vii */ Twitch.
10. /* chapter viii */ League of Legends Worlds.
11. /* chapter ix */ Lee Sang-hyeok.
12. /* chapter x */ Counter-Strike.
13. /* chapter xi */ IEM Cologne and the offline circuit.
14. /* chapter xii */ Dota 2 and The International.
15. /* chapter xiii */ Fortnite World Cup.
16. /* chapter xiv */ Valorant.
17. /* chapter xv */ The investment wave.
18. /* chapter xvi */ The "esports winter".
19. /* chapter xvii */ The Esports World Cup.
20. /* chapter xviii */ Olympic Esports Games.
21. /* chapter xix */ College esports.
22. /* chapter xx */ The Overwatch League.
23. /* chapter xxi */ Player conditions.
24. /* chapter xxii */ Who watches.
25. /* chapter xxiii */ The fighting game community.
26. /* chapter xxiv */ Mobile esports.
27. /* chapter xxv */ Twenty-five works.
28. /* chapter xxvi */ Watch & read.
29. /* chapter xxvii */ The shape of the thing.
30. /* chapter xxviii */ What is unsettled.
31. /* chapter xxix */ 2026.
32. // end of deck

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