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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.
Sri Lanka Cyber Games (SLCG) The flagship Esports and competitive video games festival in Sri Lanka. Hosted since 2008, the event organized by Gamer.LK brings participants from across Sri Lanka together as they battle it out across the most popular Esports titles in the country. [21] [22] [23] Sri Lanka: 2008–2018 Tougeki – Super Battle Opera
Esports are multiplayer video games which are played in competition, often for prize money. This category lists games (disciplines) of esports. This category lists games (disciplines) of esports. It does not list sports-related or sports simulation games, unless those games are also played in competition.
Competitive Esports tournaments in the most popular games pay hundreds to thousands of dollars to players for winning tournaments. [172] Dota 2's 2021 tournament The International had a prize pool over $40 million, the largest in esports history, thanks to its Compendium battle pass contributing a portion of its sales to it.
FXOpen eSports: Mid-Season Cup: China vs South Korea: Friendly Shanghai/Seoul: 2020 2020 8 Top Esports: Mid-Season Showdown: TW/HK/MO/SEA vs Vietnam: Friendly Taipei/Hanoi: 2020 2020 4 Talon Esports: Rift Rivals: Worldwide Friendly various 2017: 2019: Blue Rift: 6 Red Rift: 12: Blue Rift: LEC Red Rift: LCK: World Cyber Games: Worldwide ...
The Counter-Strike series has over 20 years of competitive history beginning with the original Counter-Strike.Tournaments for early versions of the game have been hosted since 2000, but the first prestigious international tournament was hosted in Dallas, Texas at the 2001 Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) Winter Championship, won by the Swedish team Ninjas in Pyjamas.
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.
StarCraft is also the most popular computer game competition during the annual World Cyber Games thanks to its Korean fanbase, and it is overall one of the world's largest computer and video game competitions in terms of prize money, global coverage and participants. [1] [2]