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G2 Esports: League of Legends: 2016–present Diamondprox: Danil Reshetnikov: Russia: Gambit Esports: League of Legends: 2011–present Dan Dinh: Dan Dinh: Russia: Cloud9: League of Legends: 2010–2013 Doinb: Kim Tae-sang: South Korea: FunPlus Phoenix: League of Legends: 2012–present Dyrus: Marcus Hill: United States: Delta Fox League of ...
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.
Esports was a medal event at the regional games which featured mostly traditional sports. Labeling competitive video games as a sport is a controversial topic. [78] [79] [80] Proponents [81] argue that esports are a fast-growing "non-traditional sport" which requires "careful planning, precise timing, and skillful execution". [82]
Esports was introduced as one of the main medal events in the Southeast Asian Games during the 2019 edition held in the Philippines. [1] Since 2019, Esports has become one of the main events during the biennial event due to the level of competition between opposing teams and the selection of games during the main event. [2]
The first professional esports league for League of Legends players in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and Southeast Asia was the Garena Premier League (GPL), which ran from 2012 to mid-2018. Teams from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau were given their own league, the League of Legends Master Series (LMS), in late 2014. [ 1 ]
A year later, prize pools continued to grow reaching over US$60 million, 40% of the year's total esports prize pools. [92] [93] 2018 League of Legends World Championship had the biggest prize pool out of all League of Legends esports championship finals, awarding almost $6.5 million. [94] [95] MOBAs are some of the most watched games in the ...
JD Gaming (JDG) is a Chinese professional esports organization based in Beijing.. It has two League of Legends teams: a main roster, officially Beijing JDG Intel Esports Club, [1] that competes in the League of Legends Pro League (LPL), the top-level league for the game in China, and an academy roster named Joy Dream that competes in the League of Legends Developmental League (LDL), China's ...
Esports at the 2022 Asian Games were held at Hangzhou Esports Center in Hangzhou, China from 24 September to 2 October 2023. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This was the first edition of the Asian Games that featured esports as a medal event, after debuting as a demonstration sport in 2018 , and the second major multi-sport event to do so after the SEA Games ...