Disciplines in esports
As disciplines in the e-sports is defined as the computer games that are played in sporting competition against each other. The most common genres in esports are real-time strategy games , first-person shooters and sports simulations . Some games are increasingly played by professional e-athletes. Some of them can earn their living with e-sports. The amount of the prize money depends on the market value that the tournament organizers and their sponsors see in the individual games. The following disciplines have the highest level of professionalism and are the most frequently dealt with in the esports media.
Real time strategy game
Dota series
The game DotA (Defense of the Ancients) emerged from a Warcraft III mod, the pioneer of the multiplayer online battle arena genre and played an important role in esports, especially in Asia. For the first presentation of the successor Dota 2 , publisher Valve launched the major esports event The International with a base prize pool of $ 1.6 million, which was first held at Gamescom in 2011 and has been held annually in Seattle since 2012 . With the third edition, Valve introduced a crowdfunding system in which the community can increase the prize pool of The International by purchasing a compendium that unlocks certain game content. The fourth edition of the tournament reached a prize pool of over $ 10 million and the fifth edition over $ 17 million. These sums exceed the prize money of all other previous e-sports tournaments many times over. The principle of crowdfunding is also very popular with many other tournament organizers in Dota 2. Thus, in various tournaments, prize money in the six-figure range is regularly achieved.
In Dota 2, the Chinese teams take a leading position. However, teams from Europe, America and Southeast Asia can also keep up with the world's best. The streams via Dota 2 competitions are particularly popular in Asia and the region of the Commonwealth of Independent States , but are also attracting attention in Europe and America.
League of Legends
League of Legends , also known as LoL, is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game. The basic idea of the game is strongly influenced by the popular WarCraft III modification Defense of the Ancients. League of Legends has been placed in esports with the help of financial resources since it was published by publisher Riot Games. Riot Games is providing the prize money for the German ESL Pro Series. Furthermore, the publisher organized a big Season 1 finale at Dreamhack 2011 in Sweden, in which eight teams from Europe, North America and Asia played for 100,000 euros in prize money. At the end of the second season, the final of the World Championships was held in Los Angeles on October 13, 2012, with the largest prize money of 2 million dollars.
The League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) has been held in North America and Europe since the third season . The best teams in each region play against each other on a weekly basis. A playoff tournament is played at the end of each split and the top four teams receive a cash prize.
The LCS is also organized by Riot Games.
StarCraft series
StarCraft: Brood War was the most popular esports game in South Korea. Major StarCraft competitions have been held in South Korea since 1999. With ongamenet and MBCGame there are two television stations in South Korea that broadcast StarCraft on television. Both broadcasters operate their own professional StarCraft leagues.
The following competitions were of international importance: World Cyber Games, BroodWar Clan League, WGTour Clan League, iCCup Clan League, Yankee League, GameStar League, TeamLiquid StarLeague and the International eSports Tournament. Important leagues and tournaments in South Korea were the MBCGame StarLeague , the ongamenet StarLeague , the ProLeague , the GOMTV Star Invitational and the Averatec-Intel Classic.
E-sports events are also held for the successor StarCraft II. In South Korea, the Global StarCraft II League takes place several times a year , with prize money equivalent to 94,000 euros. In North America, the North American Star League (NASL) is organized with over 100,000 US dollars, as well as the IGN Proleague with a total of 200,000 US dollars in prize money. There is $ 105,000 to be won in South Korea in StarCraft 2 Open Season 1. In Europe, the Electronic Sports League organizes the "ESL Pro Series" in which 12,000 euros are distributed. In addition, there are numerous smaller, mostly weekly tournaments with prize money in the three to four-digit range.
Warcraft III
With 60,000 to 100,000 players simultaneously playing Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne at any given time , the real-time strategy game has the second largest player base in esports. On average, prize money of over US $ 60,000 is played every month. Most of the Warcraft III players are in China. Around 500,000 players took part in qualifying for the 2006 World Cyber Games.
In addition to the World Cyber Games, the Electronic Sports World Cup, the ESL Intel Extreme Masters, the KODE5, the NGL ONE, the ESL WC3L Series and the International eSports Tournament are important international tournaments. The ESL Pro Series is seen as the German championship in the Warcraft III scene.
Smite
Smite is a MOBA developed and published by Hi-Rez Studios . After the release, the Smite Launch Tournament started with a purse of $ 200 thousand. Some time later the SMITE World Championship was started.
World of Tanks
World of Tanks (WoT) is an MMO tank game for PC and Xbox One developed by Wargaming and first published in 2010. The company has been heavily involved in the WoT esports scene since 2012. There is an annual world championship with qualifying tournaments around the world. The Electronic Sports League also sponsors some WoT tournaments.
Shooter
Counter Strike Series
Counter-Strike is played professionally around the world and has a large base of players with an average of several hundred thousand players playing the game simultaneously online at any time during the day. Counter-Strike achieved its international breakthrough on March 14, 2001, when it replaced Quake 3 as the official tournament game of the CPL World Championship event . In 12 years the classic game has paid more than US $ 10,000,000 in prize money. With prize money of US $ 477,500, the 2007 Championship Gaming Series Season was the highest- value tournament in the Counter-Strike series to date. In the past, the World Cyber Games , the Electronic Sports World Cup , the ESL Intel Extreme Masters and the KODE5 were of great importance. In Germany, the ESL Pro Series is the German championship. Counter-Strike: Source is the official successor to Counter-Strike. The number of professional players and tournaments, however, did not reach that of the previous title. The ESL Pro Series was also considered the German championship at Counter-Strike: Source. Internationally, the ESL Major Series for Counter-Strike: Source was the most important after the Championship Gaming Series was discontinued.
With Counter-Strike: Global Offensive there is now the second Counter-Strike successor, which has replaced the previous games in important tournaments. Here the major tournaments sponsored by Valve through income from in-game items are the most important competitions. Global Offensive was distinguished in 2015 by a large number of tournaments from various organizers. The best teams in the discipline come from Europe.
Halo series
The Halo series has moved into e-sports focus primarily due to major league gaming in the United States of America. Outside the US, the gaming scene is much smaller. The most important American league is Major League Gaming.
Quake series
The first version of Quake was one of the first games in network-based esports. The first three parts enjoyed a particularly high level of acceptance within the esports scene. The fourth part could not achieve the popularity of its predecessors despite tournaments at the Electronic Sports World Cup , the World Series of Video Game , the World Cyber Games and the KODE5 . From 2007 onwards there were more and more tournaments with Quake III than Quake IV . With Quake Live, the interest of clans and players in the game is increasing again.
The QuakeCon , which has been held annually since 1996, has traditionally been one of the most important international tournaments for the quake series. The quake series was also represented with a title every year at the Electronic Sports World Cup.
Overwatch
Overwatch is an online multiplayer game that was released on May 24th, 2016 and quickly gained great popularity. Since 2017 there is an official Overwatch League established by Blizzard with teams from all over the world. The league has 20 teams. These are divided into two divisions (Pacific, Atlantic).
Paladins
Paladins is a free-to-play hero shooter much like Overwatch. The e-sports league Paladins: Premier League (PPL) was founded in cooperation between the developer studio and the WESA ( World eSports Association ) . On August 1, 2017, the Paladins: Global Series started , which is a community tournament with prizes worth 350,000 US dollars .
Fortnite
Fortnite is a very popular free-to-play battle royale shooter.
The first e-sports -Event with the game as a discipline was at the Electronic Entertainment Expo executed in 2018 on June 12 2018th [92] The event comes on the success of the largest Livestreamers to twitch with the pseudonym Ninja back. Several celebrities competed against each other for a good cause at the event. [93] [94] [95] In 2019 , an esports tournament was held for the first time with Fortnite as part of the Australian Open , a tennis tournament. The planned prize money was 500,000 Australian dollars. [98]
On the last weekend of July 2019 (July 26th to July 28th) the finals of the Fortnite World Cup took place in New York City at Arthur Ashe Stadium , where the US Open starts in August . The auditions were organized by Epic in the middle of the year until September 2018. [99] [100] The qualifying rounds for the final took place from April 13 to June 26, 2019.
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is a Battle Royale shooter from 2017.
The first esports event was a fundraiser in May 2017 with a donation of $ 220,000 (100,000 of which from the developer Bluehole and 120,000 from the proceeds on Twitch). The next big esports event took place at Gamescom 2017 with prize money of 350 thousand US dollars. In November 2017, Intel hosted a championship on the game in Oakland with prize money of 200 thousand US dollars. The PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds World Championship will take place in November 2019. Teams from the PUBG Europe League were already competing in March.
Rainbow Six Siege
Tom Clancys Rainbow Six Siege is the first esports game in the Tom Clancys series. Official competitions of Rainbows Six Siege are the Rainbow Six Pro League operated by ESL and Ubisoft .
Battlefield series
The Battlefield series has been supported by the Electronic Sports League since Battlefield 2 .
Call of Duty series
The Call of Duty series has been in esports since 2008 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare .
Unreal Tournament
Tournaments Unreal Tournament found to between 2001 and 2004 World Cyber Games instead. Since it was removed from the list by the ESL, no more esports tournaments have taken place.
Sports simulation
Football simulation FIFA series
FIFA has been a permanent competitive game of the WCG since the first edition of the World Cyber Games 2000. In all regional offshoots such as the Samsung Euro Championship or the Pan-American WCG , tournaments were played in FIFA. FIFA was also played at the CPL Europe 2003 in Cannes. This makes FIFA the only esports game that has ever been part of the Cyberathlete Professional League . Germany has the largest FIFA community and there are two professional leagues with the ESL Pro Series and the eSport Bundesliga (until 2009). So far, German players have won the World Cyber Games in FIFA four times. Alongside Germany, South Korea is also the most successful FIFA nation with four gold medals. The OnGameNet Hyundai FIFA League is one of the major FIFA leagues in South Korea. In 2007 FIFA played for prize money of around 250,000 euros. The best-known and most successful e-athletes in this discipline are the twins Daniel and Dennis Schellhase .
FIFA is operated both individually and in teams. In the singles two players play directly against each other. Unlike Counter-Strike, the team competition at FIFA also consists of several individuals. The five or three players on a team compete against players drawn from the opposing clan. Two points are awarded for each win, for a draw the player receives one point, for a defeat the player receives no point. At the end of the competition, the points are added to determine the winner of the team competition. The World Cyber Games are considered the World Cup for FIFA players and are played individually. The ESL Pro Series is the German championship for teams of five players. The single player counterpart is the ESL Sports Championship.
Racing simulation Gran Turismo and the GT Academy
Gran Turismo (subtitle: "The Real Driving Simulator") is a video game series that is available exclusively for the Sony PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 as well as for the PlayStation Portable (PSP), and is the basis for the GT Academy (also The NISMO PlayStation GT Academy ). The GT Academy is a casting and funding program by Nissan and Sony PlayStation , for the alternative recruitment of talented drivers through e-sports . The GT Academy enables Gran Turismo players to transition from virtual racing simulations to real motorsport in a Nissan motorsport team.
The GT Academy is a combination of esports tournaments and racing driver school, and was launched in June 2008 in collaboration between Nissan Europe, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and Polyphony Digital.
The program consists of four different phases. Phase one is only completed virtually on PlayStations, the participants compete against each other as players in the Gran Turismo racing simulation . Phase two is then supplemented by practical exercises. In the Race Camp, the focus is on training. Phase four consists of the driver development program, with qualification for a driver license and entry into real motorsport.
By 2014, more than 5 million participants had taken part in the GT Academy via their PlayStation, and 16 participants had started a motorsport career.
More racing games
Other racing games with presence in esports are Project CARS (recognized by the Electronic Sports League ), the TrackMania series, NASCAR iRacing, the Forza Motorsport series with the Forza Racing Championship.
Other ball sports
In addition to soccer, there are also esports disciplines for the American football game Madden NFL with the Madden NFL Championship Series and the basketball game NBA 2K with the NBA 2K League.
Rocket League
The first Rocket League Championship Series took place in 2016 . The final took place in August 2016 a prize of 55,000 US dollars instead. [13] [14] Following the official release of Rocket League, the game became an officially sponsored esports title that joined the Electronic Sports League . [16] In September 2015, the announced Major League Gaming , the first season of Pro Rocket League, which took place from September to early October: (MLG short). [17] A $ 1,000 Rocket League tournament was played at the Summer X Games in July 2017 outside the US Bank Stadium . [18] The final was broadcast live on ESPN3 . [19] As the first attempt by NBC to enter the e-sports, the NBC Sports Group, in cooperation with Faceit a separate 100 thousand dollars tournament, which was broadcast worldwide from July to August 2017 eight regions. [20] As of September 2017, organized Psyonix and TESPA a college -Sportveranstalter, the first college tournament for teams in which a scholarship share of $ 50,000 was awarded. [21] In December 2017 organized a Turner Sports ELEAGUE Cup event was broadcast worth 150,000 US dollars for eight teams, which live on the Internet. In a three-part series, some details on the teams' path to the cup and some of the game highlights were broadcast on TBS. [22] [23]
Card games
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
Hearthstone is a trading card game from Blizzard Entertainment . Since 2014 regularly on the BlizzCon the Hearthstone World Championship held in 2014 and on Twitch transferred
Other genres
Agriculture simulator
For the Farming Simulator 2019 the e-sports league Farming Simulator League was founded by the developer Giants Software. The prize money should amount to 250,000 euros . A total of ten tournaments are to be held in different locations in Europe from summer 2019 . Before that there was also the Farming Simulator Championship 2018 , in which semi-professional tournaments were held in the Farming Simulator . Sponsors include Logitech , Intel , Noblechairs and Nitrado, as well as manufacturers of real agricultural products. [12]
Auto battler
An Auto-Battler (also Auto Chess ) is a sub-genre of the turn-based strategy game and a concept that combines the game of chess with a multiplayer online battle arena game. The term auto refers to the automatic fighting of placed units. Well-known players include Dota Auto Chess , Dota Underlords and League of Legends : Teamfight Tactics. Since the genre is still relatively new, not many esports tournaments have been held yet.
Pokémon
For several years, the Pokémon World Championships from Play! Pokémon carried out.
Tetris
The Classic Tetris World Championship revolves around the game of Tetris .
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Individual evidence
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