Cybersport Student: Morgunov Stanislav, 10 a Teacher: I.V.Bodrova Gymnasium № 1 Balakovo

E-sports history E-Sports is a competition in computer video games. E-Sports history began with the game Doom 2, which had a multiplayer game through a local area network. Due to the popularity of the game Quake, in 1997 the United States had the first league competitive players - Cyberathlete Professional League.

Although organized online and offline competitions have long been a part of video game culture, participation and spectatorship of such events have seen a large surge in popularity from the late 2000s and early 2010s. While competitions around 2000 were largely between amateurs, the proliferation of professional competitions and growing viewership now supports a significant number of professional players and teams,[2] and many video game developers now build features into their games designed to facilitate such competition.

Classification as a sport Labelling video games as sports is somewhat controversial. While some point to the growth in popularity of eSports as justification for designating some games as sports, others contend that video games will never reach the status of "true sports".

Games A number of games are popular among professional competitors. After 2010 with the release of Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne mod Defense of the Ancients, multiplayer online battle arena games became popular as eSports. Competitions exist for many titles and genres, though currently the most popular games are Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, League of Legends, Dota 2, Smite, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft and StarCraft II.

Women in E-Sports The number of female viewers has been growing in eSports, and in % of eSports enthusiasts were female, an increase from 15% in the previous year. However, despite the increase in female viewers, there is a dearth of female players in high level competitive eSports. The top female players that are involved in eSports mainly get exposure in female-only tournaments, most notably Counter-Strike, Dead or Alive 4, and StarCraft II.

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