SK Gaming<\/a> and Fnatic. Back then, the community didn’t have much information about these players outside of their solo queue rankings or forum posts — and with little content out there, fans looked for any information to latch onto.<\/span><\/p>\n“When I played, people read into anything they could,” Chau told theScore esports. “So if you didn’t play well, but had lots of kills in one game, people would think you were really good at the game. It was hard for teams to be consistent back then because there wasn’t enough information.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>Below are 2 examples of esports:<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\nThe most popular esport is <\/span>LOL Esport<\/span>. It features two teams of 5 players who fight against one another for dominance to destroy the enemy team’s nexus. League of Legends is played with a top-down perspective based on the Defense of the Ancients custom map for Warcraft III.<\/span><\/p>\nThe other popular esport is DOTA 2. It is played in a five versus five format where two teams try to destroy each others’ bases, called the “Ancient.”<\/span><\/p>\nLeague of legends LOL Esport<\/span> has recently had an annual championship event which in 2016 was watched by 43 million people with a total prize pool of over $5 million. Other popular esports are Dota 2, Hearthstone, Starcraft 2, and Counter-Strike.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What’s esport? Esports, also known as electronic sports, is a multiplayer video game competition. While competition has always been a large part of gaming, it wasn’t until the late 2000s that Esports started becoming widely recognized. The term esports was coined in 2002, but because of the lack of widespread internet, it did not gain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":6253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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