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Collected by: Mount Dora High School

Archived since: Jan, 2018

Description:

These collections of seeds and metadatas are being used to capture one of the future's biggest forms of entertainment before it is fully accepted into mainstream culture. This collection aims to show that e-Sports has the potential to become a multi-billion dollar franchise. e-Sports are starting to attract companies who are realizing that this form of sports will become the future from of entertainment for a lot of people. This collection also shows how despite e-Sports being a fledgling sport, there are still people trying to get a competitive edge on their opponents through cheating, drugs, and match fixing.

Subject:   Society & Culture e-Sports

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Title: eSports: A brief history

URL: http://adanai.com/esports/

Description: In his article, Tyler F.M. Edwards explains how even in the 1980's there were gaming or e-Sport tournaments, one of the earliest competitions was for a game called Quake, which was a first person shooter, had a prize of a Ferrari, and a couple weeks after that the first major league gaming organization was created, named the Cyberathlete Professional League. Ever since the 2000's, e-Sports has been a flourishing sport attracting hundreds of thousands of viewers for certain tournaments.

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Subject:   eSports

Title: Playing The Game: How Much ESports Players Really Make

URL: http://www.alistdaily.com/media/playing-the-game-how-much-esports-players-really-make/

Description: In this article, author H.B. Duran shows the true amount of money a professional e-sport gamers can make. The revenue of an e-sports player varies on skill level, and many other factors. While for some of the bigger e-sport's prize pools are in the millions, players who lose still need to make money, so these people turn to a live-streaming service called Twitch where they can gain subscribers for their channel for as little as $5 a month. Most of the time, the streamers get half of that. So for example, at 2,000 subscribers a month that's an extra $5,000 a month. That's just the tip of the iceberg on income for professional players.

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Subject:   e-Sports

Title: Jobs and careers in the esport & video gaming industry continue to grow

URL: http://www.businessinsider.com/esports-gaming-jobs-careers-2017-12/

Description: The author of the article Mai-Hanh Nguyen explains how in the growing industry of esports which is almost a billion dollar industry, there are plenty of job opportunities. Among the most obvious of them being an athlete and team managers, there are also the people who work as public relations, and those who brand apparel or gear for the respective teams to be sold. There are the people who plan venues for the professional matches to be played at. She then goes on to say how epSports is a growing industry and that there will be even more job opportunities in the future.

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Subject:   e-Sports

Title: Resistance if futile: eSports is massive...and growing

URL: http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/13059210/esports-massive-industry-growing

Description: In this article on ESPN's website the author, Ben Casselman, goes over statistics that show the fact that e-Sports are actually becoming a very profitable business for investors and viewers alike. Companies are starting to flock to the tournaments, which were once in rented out ball rooms, are now being hosted in sold out stadiums with hundreds of thousands of viewers watching live in person and from home on their electronic devices mostly through a live streaming app called twitch. The article also gives statistics on how some of the largest tournaments for e-Sports are rivaling more mainstream sports in both viewership and prize pools.

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Subject:   eSports

Title: Does esports have a drug Problem?

URL: https://killscreen.com/articles/does-esports-have-a-drug-problem/

Description: In his article Roy Graham explains the tactic used by e-sport players that are unethical and wrong in the gaming world, using adderall! He gives the readers proof of gamers using this type of drug by linking a video of an interview that includes a gamer who admitted to the usage of adderall and tried to defend himself by claiming most gamers do it too. He leads us to believe that if players from e-sports are abusing themselves by using drugs in order to be a better player then e-sports itself may be corrupt to the players and anybody else associated with it.

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Subject:   eSports

Title: Three Things you Need to know before investing in eSports, Match-fixing comes to the world of eSports, Match-fixing comes to the world of eSports, Match-fixing comes to the world of eSports

URL: https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/23/match-fixing-comes-to-the-world-of-e-sports/

Description: In this article, author Alex Knapp goes into great detail for investors on things to do before investing in eSports or any eSports team, and compares it to making investments in actual sports teams as both are unpredictable and "volatile" during competition. Investors are told to look into how the teams make their money, how teams are structured, and if the players are willing to play by set rules or contracts. In Aurangzeb Durrani's article on match fixing in esports, he points out how just like any other sport people will throw competitive matches for money, this highlights how even in fledgeling sports people will still find ways to make money through illicit means. What this meant for the world of esports is that there had to be actions taken by companies to punish those responsible and prevent it from happening as much as possible. Companies like Valve have permanently banned players that were caught fixing matches from esports for the rest of their lives in an attempt to ward off future attempts by players to fix matches. In Aurangzeb Durrani's article on match fixing in esports, he points out how just like any other sport people will throw competitive matches for money, this highlights how even in fledgeling sports people will still find ways to make money through illicit means. What this meant for the world of esports is that there had to be actions taken by companies to punish those responsible and prevent it from happening as much as possible. Companies like Valve have permanently banned players that were caught fixing matches from esports for the rest of their lives in an attempt to ward off future attempts by players to fix matches. In Aurangzeb Durrani's article on match fixing in esports, he points out how just like any other sport people will throw competitive matches for money, this highlights how even in fledgeling sports people will still find ways to make money through illicit means. What this meant for the world of esports is that there had to be actions taken by companies to punish those responsible and prevent it from happening as much as possible. Companies like Valve have permanently banned players that were caught fixing matches from esports for the rest of their lives in an attempt to ward off future attempts by players to fix matches.

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Subject:   e-Sports e-Sports eSports eSports

Title: The traditional Sports world is taking esports into the mainstream

URL: https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/21/how-the-traditional-sports-world-is-embracing-esports/

Description: The author , Edgar Alveraz, reveals the way esports is advancing in the gaming world , with many companies investing in it,it is becoming more popular by the minute . Nbc, Disney XD ,espn , exedra are so invested in esports that they are trying to make it as valuable as actual sports . Making its way around the world , pleanty of people in charge of esports have seen what they ontribute to society earning to make more for the company in order to grow . Today having an excessive amount of money it has completetly changed the way gaming is today .

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Subject:   e-Sports

Title: Three Things You Need to Know Before Investing in eSports

URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2017/02/24/three-things-you-need-to-know-before-investing-in-esports/#27f4043f6361

Description: In this article, author Alex Knapp goes into great detail for investors on things to do before investing in eSports or any eSports team, and compares it to making investments in actual sports teams which are both unpredictable and "volatile" during competition. Investors are told to look into how the teams make their money, how teams are structured, and if the players are willing to play by set rules or contracts.

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Subject:   eSports

Title: What are eSports? A pro-videogaming guide for the best of us

URL: https://www.recode.net/2014/6/22/11628222/what-are-esports-a-pro-video-gaming-guide-for-the-rest-of-us/

Description: The world of electronic sports can sometimes be seen as dull and boring to anyone outside of the e-Sports scene, but in the eyes of players and teams, it's one of opportunity and fun. While being completely different from normal, real-life sports author, Eric Johnson highlights the lengthy history behind-the-scenes of this competitive medium as well as the excitement involved. He also goes into detail about exactly how different the divide between the two is by comparing different fields and rinks to the maps involved in the gaming world. In this 2014 article, Johnson shows us his perspective as well as ones of players at the time and what games were popular in the past years.

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Subject:   eSports

Title: Sport 2.0 The rise of e-Sports: are addiction and corruption the price of it's success

URL: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/jun/16/top-addiction-young-people-gaming-esports

Description: In this article, the author, Simon Hattenstone described how schools in South Korea use e-Sports as both a motivator and a way to entertain students. In essence, they're training students to excell as eSports professionals if they so choose to be one. And boy, do they have the right idea. Some professional gamers who play sport-related video games, such as FIFA, are making up to 2 million euros a year! Also the article touches on how they are having to try and police corruption within this young unregulated outlet for entertainment, for example, match fixing the reason of this happening is because in Las Vegas there has been matches live streamed to the public and have been bet on.

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Subject:   eSports

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