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Esports are video games which are played in professional competitions, usually fall into a few major genres.The majority of esports titles are fighting games, first-person shooters (FPS), real-time strategy (RTS), traditional sports, and multiplayer online battle arena games (MOBA), with the MOBA genre being the most popular in terms of participation and viewership.
Edward Gaming [a] (EDG) is a professional esports organization based in Shanghai, China. EDG's League of Legends team, officially called EDG Hycan , [ 1 ] competes in the League of Legends Pro League (LPL) and plays home games at the Shanghai Electric Industrial Park.
Single-player, multiplayer. Rocket League is a 2015 vehicular soccer video game developed and published by Psyonix for various home consoles and computers. It has been offered as free-to-play since 2020 when Epic Games acquired Psyonix. A sequel to 2008's Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars, Rocket League features up to eight ...
2020 →. The 2019 League of Legends World Championship Final was a League of Legends (LoL) esports series between FunPlus Phoenix (FPX) and G2 Esports on 10 November 2019 at AccorHotels Arena in Paris, France. It marked the ninth final of a LoL World Championship and the first time either of the teams had reached the world finals.
Esports. Players competing in a League of Legends tournament. Esports (/ ˈiːspɔːrts / ⓘ), short for electronic sports, is a form of competition using video games. [1] Esports often takes the form of organized, multiplayer video game competitions, particularly between professional players, played individually or as teams. [2]
World Cyber Games is one of the largest global esports tournaments, with divisions in various countries. [1] The World Cyber Games, created by International Cyber Marketing CEO Yooseop Oh and backed financially by Samsung, was considered the e-sports Olympics; [2] [3] events included an official opening ceremony, and players from various countries competing for gold, silver and bronze medals.
Professional Gamers League. The AMD Professional Gamers League (PGL), founded around 1997, was one of the first professional computer gaming eSports leagues. The PGL was run by Total Entertainment Network and was sponsored by AMD. [1] The first professional tournament they held was for StarCraft in September 1997. [2]
League of Legends esports is the professional competition of the multiplayer online battle arena video game League of Legends. It is developed and published by Riot Games and was first released in 2009. Professional tournaments began in 2011 with the Season 1 World Championship at DreamHack in Jönköping, Sweden.