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pro gaming is about much more than playing around on the computer and. i've been at live events where someone told me my face you know bad just because i'm a woman all the that's not so. good on a good friend of mine called wouldn't want my kid to sit in the room and read books every day either. going to. the to play. more tournaments are being held more sponsors are investing. more and more viewers want to watch the digital showdown why. the fast paced computer game competitions are.

sports have undeniably gone mainstream. christian shit for a journalist expert in digital gaming culture and passionate computer gamer has been documenting the hype for years. the snake i'm not sides by it's no different than conventional schools in my main with fascinated to see people who are really good at something and compete against each other and test their metal demand. and then come it makes you want to watch one and so it's. there are other factors at play like the rush of emotions going on as of the thick and there are special moments which just surprise effect when a game suddenly changes the feel like everyone remembers the scene when's in advance it dan gave marco materazzi a head but i mean the 2006 world cup final and was expelled from the field and canals like it would. have their fair share of. scenes people remember. only when they talk about them at school or university whatever over

a beer and that's what makes the sports in general a fascinating i'm must just be fucked up making the final. of it might be true. but not all e-sports are equal. every single computer game has its own rules just like soccer has nothing to do with tennis. the 3 big john rizzo are shooters sports and strategy games. the top players of the game by against each other in tournaments but. those who actually manage to win a world championship have the chance to get rich off of gaming. what started out 10

years ago with modest prize money has since evolved and millions are at stake now. i. i $30000000.00 are up for grabs at the 2019 fortnight world cup and over $34000000.00 for dota 2 a new record i. just had to see the pie skate i really notice how incredibly unfortunate the prize money honest because it draws people's attention to the games and also honesty and as she did not imply scared massif send at the same time there are tremendous differences in the sun on seeking a while back before players complained about how little they get missed and of it's really not much you have to invest quite a bit that's and then let's say you're ranks number 20 in the world in this game

that millions of people play worldwide of the golf and then you might get i don't know 1000 euros 20500 so i don't know exactly but it's not much at all of us have vetoed these stories about huge payouts and millionaires are about the best of the best and really just the very top best on set. tournaments are increasingly being held everywhere. companies are now taking an incredible interest in the east for its phenomenon there's a real gold rush going on. companies want their presence to be felt and they sponsor events and gamers and the company logos are everywhere to be seen at e sports events. businesses want to advertise to a target audience that is currently very difficult to reach young men. as i finished only it's amazing how often thanks and health insurance companies invest in east boston and. actors are sponsors in east sports in this team now and. no

offense to them that's entirely these aren't exactly the sectors that come to mind when you think people young it's refreshing for innovative teeth as a van and then they use these events as a podium off so you make this is so c.h. in with that in fact you know it's really interesting and shows what a great image a sports may be have it's not as tight as some this and even banks are saying maybe e-sports going to help us be a little cooler at the so god. awful nice kind of spot stuff i have from visiting crew lots of a i. think you can you know but how did you sports become a mass phenomenon it all began with atari. even back then competitions were held in arcades and this is where the digital gaming culture was born.

a bit later it found its way into home living rooms with the advent of game console almost all of them are still available today in a different form. with the rise of affordable home computers in the late 1990 s. the market began to grow. in the early 2000 gamers met up at lan parties. private p.c.'s were linked together to form local area networks or lands in which teams fought it out in tournaments. and. considered the bernie ecclestone of the sports this man wants them to surpass

conventional sports and popularity the world over. founded the electronic sports league for e.s.l. in the year 2000. his cologne based company offers services related to east boards event management sponsorship and the advertising. in addition to the e.s.l. is one of the top tournaments organizers in europe with 7 international offices and hundreds of employees worldwide. and on and on can ask the n.d.p. said about the 1st event i organized on my own as an event manager was allowed to top who could remember enough novato commerce with a home office and then. that year i was allowed to. 13 or 14 times and it was kind of a student's dream. you're holding a computer game turned a bit in the coolest city in europe and there was this incredibly friendly and attractive hotel manager we had a lot of fun with would have an adjustment of a few spots but. what started out in a london hotel for reichert is now

a mass phenomenon i the events are bustling with visitors and the online viewership of world championships can reach 4000000. doesn't. mean of us it is definitely a global phenomenon but it's bigger in some regionals like asia. asia is where east played the lead role was the polish be it especially south korea it may not be the birthplace of the talent but they are perhaps like how soccer is to brazilians and feel like influenced by that is i today much of the international sports elite comes from south korea i the state strongly intervened in this development. in the late 1990 s. the government subsidized purchases of home p.c.'s and broadband internet was rapidly expanded. gaming when it came in national school sports stadiums

6. i led. the colorful world of digital gaming is a $1000000000.00 business world championships are gigantic entertainment events and opportunities to feel like you're a hero or heroine. digital dances from popular games have long since found their way into the real world and become part of popular culture. their steps can be seen being performed at school and dance classes or by star soccer players. at events like game city or comic con the lines blur between gaming the sports and cost play where fans dress up like their favorite characters from movies computer

games or comics. and influencers play an important role in promoting games and. at these events this influencer just has to be seen for his sponsors this is rene berg's a.k.a. luigi kid the 23 year old has been playing super smash bros since he was a child. my name is luigi kids. super mario brothers so it was a perfect fit from the beginning since i have a connection with them tend to go off the box and been since i grew up with nintendo and make a lot of intended content on my channel i was quickly invited to a nintendo precipice to test their game. and then i just made connections connections but since then i have been in close contact with them that sometimes i

have the chance to test games earlier on all. the different tastes ligi kid went on to build up his own brand around you tube videos and streams covering nintendo's games and all its products and of course the company also sponsors him. 7 course i want to entertain people but i also want to be as informative as possible so that people know what they're looking. ahead and buy it themselves it just goes hand in hand. luigi kid can't live from his let's play series alone where he shows and comments on computer games. during tournaments he also sometimes shows other gamers how to stay in shape physically he's a qualified fitness trainer. his job as an influencer however entail a lot of work.

because. it's a lot of people who watch you tube videos and streams think it's a piece of cake just press record he says although. i mean what goes on in front of the cameras so fun and happy what is the post-production afterwards. that's the real dots biased cutting it usually takes 10 times as long as recording it and many people underestimate. this is shown it's exhausting sitting at the computer for several hours nonstop cutting and stay focused it's just simple because you're in. the competition in the online video game streaming market is tough. every day people spend the millions of hours watching others play. with its platform twitch google with you tube for microsoft with its channel mixer

vie for the audience's attention the rights to major east boards leaks and players . just like in real sports these mouse wielding athletes are traded for terrific sums of money and head hunted. for luigi kid that's a whole different world he's a one man show you've seen. all 5 now manage to have a normal sleep schedule i get up to shower you know balance breakfast maybe work out. when i sit down on my p.c. that record my videos and cut them right afterwards so i've got to behind me that i upload them. they usually go online on my channel at 10 pm and i have to respond to comments on my promotional activities and always be active on social media. you might say you're almost always on the job as an influencer extreme right it's just really not. he pursues his true passion in sports by

participating in smaller scale tournaments whether as a player on a team and or a cast or a live tournament commentator no big payouts to be found here. it's a different story for this superstar he's the only german dota 2 world champion and then the sports millionaire. who wrote. me a k. a kuroki has already won over $4500000.00 euros in prize money to is an online strategy game considered top of the line and it's john rocker. was born in berlin and now lives in egypt but. it wasn't just business related considerations that brought him here. he had long dreamed of living in a warm country as an added bonus cairo is close to his teammates home countries most of which are in the middle east.

you know i was one of just 3 game is in my clothes and. you know everyone wants to play i love this last which everyone knows about. and they watch video streams and t.v. strangely on your computer all phones you know for. sure all was born and raised in germany as a teenager it took some persuading to get his parents to warm up to the idea of pro gaming. and then. come on you can imagine how that went down at the beginning there on the tunisian ish the guys that my parents weren't thrilled of course they're white and they wanted me to go to college as soon as possible to dealing become a lawyer or doctor. my family is a rainy and you're expected to try to become an engineer or doctor or something was on shuffle. i spent a lot of time on my computer and of course they didn't get what i was doing on.

the stand after i graduated from high school i asked my parents to give me 6 months to prove what i was capable of only supervised and they reluctantly agreed and i ended up being very successful on. that and. around that time i came in 2nd in the world championship the international media international from then on my whole life changed. them i'm leaving it. always been his way since he was a kid s. that mushmouth going to get done he says i'm doing this is a fatone situation i don't worry because i trust him if he says he'll do something he does it and if he says he won't he doesn't act. as a 99. but his 1st of course there's areas where we had our reservations my mouth disease could dunk in all this game is a speed and. you want to 1st trip when he was

13 or 14 it was really the. it was a great experience for him but it was tough for us at 1st. plays the real time strategy game dota 2 the professional gaming scene has grown tremendously over the past 10 years but in the early days many who dreamed of success were exploited he too got cheated out of prize money and travel expenses. the noise our homes leaving e-sports is still quite young and when something new like this appears it draws the attention of a lot of businessmen and also criminals. or people trying to make easy money onstott so contest and there's the simple fact that the average gamer is young a push up by onus the size you know other words they're pretty naive and lacking in life experience all this is an issue where i need is not hard to fool a 161718 or 19 year old boy who plays video games

a lot when i was really easy actually and there was so much as as i say i fall over . daughter too was released in 2011 and the world championship is held annually. has competed professionally in each one his big win finally came in 2017 as part of the eastport organization team liquid where he's the team captain just please listen to her please you just need to listen to what i did as a top so much of my control talking how i support was what was more don't talk so much don't be like stress i go always up no not all you guys are soldiers ok your best players played all talk and we do the talking and 2019 he and his team unanimously decided to leave these sports organization teamwork with and establish their own organization called team management i by then the 5 players had won $22000000.00 in prize money some $20000000.00 euro. was or 5

noticed seem to insist i smile and we travel $1020.00 or 30 times a year depending on how successful we are heavy dose a meticulous is very travel heavy parsons and that kind of set sees falls apart in general get it and that even conventional force in the regional on this everything is close by with these boards and otoh it's more likely today we're off to china next week we're heading to america ok you've got the jet lag and time zones then i read. and to europe it's been a whole and sometimes this goes on to all 3 times a month i was all it totally burns you out of one bone or this this is one issue i think east all it will have to tackle in the coming years is what's my son was in and in the ixnay on my time i don't know. is already a veteran of sorts and a role model for many young aspiring gamers in the scene but do e-sports stars have an expiration date. ish session i think it's

pretty hard to say how old you can be these boards on sphere we haven't got a data going to its own program i'm basically a 1st generation pro game and it's all my country i personally think you can keep on playing when you're older and a scintilla of 30 to 40 i can imagine as i initially in it's just that like with anything really as you get older you have more stress and more stress means you're less focused on your work site and your work is to compete which means putting in as much time and energy as possible i personally think i'll keep on going until the international 2021 or that was my goal so another 2 years it's not a lot so i do see what life has in store i was kind of when i was leaving. being a professional gamer is a tough job involving high stakes and a lot of risk. the side of the movie that is just that you constantly have

constraints you have to wince i just playing around the top one cut a nice there is no 2nd division like in sucka for example by the amis there's just the very best you know you do it through a few years but then what do you do with your life was most of them that's the problem. besides fantasy another programming genre is sport games. many soccer clubs now have their own e-sports team. clicking instead of kicking how sporty are these digital competitions. what defines a sport your heart rate a quick and poles dexterity. up it's vision i had mentioned love the sport some older people may or may not think it's a sport or may say it's more or less physical of devices more physical than golf i can tell you that it isn't a fake disco so move some of this and anything beyond that's a bit of

a discussion 5 hike in i think in 2 or 3 generations people will see things differently and be amazed amy it's just like something i recently her moslems kind of go back in 1910 there were 300000 horses in boston used for transport and failed in 30 years later there were none at all. well there are generations who think that this car thing has no place in a city and there can only be horses and then you jump forward 30 years and there's not a horse to be seen in the field just cards on them. and i think the same kind of thing holds true when it comes to whether e-sports or sports or not it soon will be up for discussion if it's more than a game. is this sports or not what does a pro soccer player say we meet with. who was an austrian national player for many years. i think certain conditions should be met to call it sports which definitely includes having a competitive character and i think if i ask anyone here today it will say yes it's

competitive meaning at least this worst condition is fulfilled and we can drop the discussion as to whether this is sports or not with this nowadays he works as an announcer for soccer matches on a big pay t.v. station which now also broadcast sports finals live with great technical sophistication after all an increasing number of conventional sports channels are now investing large sums in digital sports these sports events live on a sports channel imagine watching them alongside the people world cup and ski runs the old cliche of the unathletic computer nerd persists i was already into gaming 20 years ago i would sit around for 345 hours at a time playing games and i went on to become a pro athlete so often i don't get this whole debate. and i can think what you want of young people suddenly being paid to play computer games and then some say for instance why do you get paid to play soccer which i've had these discussions before. for her part. isn't making

a living off of gaming yet she plays in the east soccer club. based in ferraro burg austria. whether f.c. basel 4 or rapid vienna respectable soccer clubs are increasingly expected to have . only sports teams. before girl conti as she calls herself on social media has made a lasting name for herself and austria's top fever division the league go. on for 3 or 4 years i used to play in a real life women's team and fought and i feel that i've been playing fifo for longer than i've played actual soccer and now i've switched fully to the console and it's been even more deacons only give access. is one of the most expensive eastport disciplines players have to put together an entire virtual soccer team. if you want your team to be successful and make progress it takes a considerable investment to mostly through the end as a developer in

a hazardous cups and you have to qualify for each one you collect the mental series points to the point of view and you can only collect and by taking part in the nature of sense and you 1st need to qualify for the bigger then this is it was over 1000 players take part in the qualifying round because you have to be among the top 16 on the play station and your chances are pretty low because there are some really good players that have a knife. with feet that you don't really great players if you might have not good and the players cost money that you can just project out right either way you purchase random collectible cards and so far it's been if you're out of luck you're going to have any messy old rinaldo with it but maybe some no name players from vienna or something. at the end some speed. on. the society that's a bitter pill to swallow to hide so you have to cough up a lot of money before you have

a good set of play is that it's the same principle as in certain conventional sports can and not everyone can be a polo player you need a horse and people to play with you a lot to deal with and i'm sure that's good chuck the same holds true in east thought. and there is certainly. some very democratic disciplines meaning anyone can try them out and play even with limited resources and that if giving an been asked. one should be income why it's a. big heat and he knows there are days everyone really every teenager has a very very powerful console in their pocket and no one touches and it's called a cell phone. you can almost always get started with today's games for free license and for the most games you pay for cosmetic items to make you look better like some cool tennis jersey that's optional. there are no physical barriers up to an extremely high level. if you mentioned that there are

a lot of people who can't walk but they can play you sports unlike any others for women can play on par with men and the tournaments there is no difference physically the men kind of a few that makes the sports much more democratic than at least half of normal sports probably even more so it's a means of 50 points under us and it's one reason for in sports success i know that one of them sell so if a custom and that's in theory at least in practice inclusion is quite rare here as with other you sports events it is clear to see women are the absolute minority. as it can at my current level and i actually don't know a single other woman in the german speaking community i know a brazilian woman who is about as good as i am but that's it and that's actually quite normal to me and i don't get treated differently because of that time nothing special or anything that's not what i want either even if i want to stand up for my

performance and not just because i'm a woman but of course you feel it is good for. the east for its referee eve on sheer from cross austria is also familiar with this feeling she not only works that made. sports tournaments but also plays herself. my sense is this there is usually the standard reaction that is a woman's because i've often been the only woman at a lot of events with a here in the area offline and people are curious as. to what some like to think very curious and communicative which i like in the course because that also really like to talk i was coming to be honest but things can go right i've also had the people say we want to play against this team 1st because there's a woman and that's easy response and that i don't need to prove myself because i'm not inferior to the boys in any way not in the slightest and just to prove

a point i've shown it a few times thank god but there's no need for any i was miss that's i miss my. own . prejudices against women still persist in the gaming scene gamer girls are often laughed at the right as gamer sluts or at worst even mocked. how sexist is the east sports scene. to sex is just because internet i think it's a sexist of the internet and the me too movement was one because they're tough to listen we still have a bit of catching up to do throughout society in terms of treating women properly. and yes it's sexist does the gaming world reflect those computers for us the internet good buta phone yes it's an issue we have to actively address the highest and we have to actively foster diversity in many different areas on to diversity and few for sheen instead but this isn't a subculture where the issue is particularly prevalent is nice with dozens to

a bit it's just like everywhere else in society but that doesn't make it any less of a problem in the stuff this things i don't want to downplay what it's simply a problem that needs to be addressed and. evolve is on the road a lot. the multiple time national champion in call of duty wears many hats as a referee player and the gender equality representative of the austrian e-sports association because slowly but surely greater awareness about the question of diversity is developing in the east ports and gaming scene. most young women reach me through different channels either they talk to me because they've seen me in some interview or i might get an email saying hey i'd like to go to such and such event but i'm not sure people there were like. needles. that's what is important to just talk to these young women and girls and try to

encourage them and say hey go ahead and check things out in office because they are the usual stereotypes and prejudices i've got in my share of negative messages to you but you just have to take the high ground. but i just try to encourage people to be sort of a role model and say hey i made it so you definitely can't his songs where he was actually asked as i can see this marshall from. empowering women in the gaming scene is also girl gamer festivals proclaimed objective held for the 1st time in 2017 it is the world's biggest sports event where exclusively women compete . however the prize money is modest and sponsor show little interest or generosity . female pro gamers still don't receive nearly the same attention and recognition as their male counterparts. there are also separate tournaments at major events where only women's teams compete with. the momentum is following

tonight. in town we regularly hold women's tournaments and they're quite controversial even among our own staff on the mic and i'm on the one hand we want to give women the opportunity to be very visible in a more intimate setting and to be in the spotlight on the other hand this is of course a form of exclusion alienation people. from nagging the globe he said with some with us treat the issue very carefully i think for me mukesh so. it's quite a it's senate seat in the end we want as many women as possible to take part in the tournaments both as participants and events and viewers of the online broadcast and we don't want to actually separate them. it's also good business to build a broader target audience which we haven't really been addressing properly and this clip of the team has been more of the exception for us to hold special competitions

is i think the bigger issue is actually cyberbullying off of cons. by setting up clear rules when organizing the tournament we give the players and tools they can use to treat each other with respect respect for him and get us through this binya specifically i don't know if you know women because my team isn't completely female but i think that these female leaks a sort of a safe space school girls who say hey when i go to an offline event i may just want to compare them so it's like pete is without any key shay's without prejudice and without adding to us and just to play and i think he's done some. fish some s. and so i think that's what it maybe takes right now to fire up the women he sports scene but i hope of course that in 5 or 10 years time we simply won't need of. the few made me go. behind the scenes any sports however women are already taking on higher positions for instance as presenters team

managers or in marketing. almost everyone's e sports career gets started in their bedroom at a young age just like for it to be a shock a nadir he plays the popular strategy game league of legends he's 22 years old and the game he goes by dreamer ace. besides training for hours each day he manages all his social media channels himself and streams videos to keep his fans in good spirit there was a fence other went off so that's man's want to get to know the players there was in real life sports you see the players to know what they look like for example ronald it looks like this in the face looks like this is a body like. when you're in a game you only see a virtual avatar and their name dream. but what does dream asexually look like what's he like and how does he talk so what's his personality like and that really interests a lot of people is. this is this is different than this implicit. tovia

smith an edge to be hired by a professional e-sports organization the unicorn's of love. the players live and train together and what they call a gaming house and berlin but only temporarily. with online gaming there's no need to always be in the same place they usually meet for the 1st time virtually anyway. on the ceremony the mansion house there were certain services and then you're in a place with people you only knew through the internet until then it's only fair that it was of course you know the name also and you know roughly how they look because there are photos on but you don't really know who is this person here with me. then you meet them all and think we have similar personalities otherwise maybe not everyone were playing this game. on but what's different is we're organizing

household chores. but when you live with your parents you're not quite used to it. because you have to cook for yourself wash your own clothes and generally be very independent searched i think i've gone for. the daily routine here is strict the joint training doesn't start until the early afternoon and goes on into the evening hours. it's during this time that the most teams are online and can play against each other no matter their time zone. the game is league of legends where 2 teams of 5 players compete. each team has its own coach who analyzes the game every day they perfect their tactics a bit more. want to look for. this guy through living off of gaming is the most all something

in the world for a young person to do this i would say in the show it was my goal to achieve that goal and i didn't start here till i made a. dozen this is. getting there is incredibly difficult one thing off and working on the basics and some other games older than me and i've been at this game for years but still haven't reached their goals. on sun it's an imminent thought was you come away there is so much competition. you really need skills you need talent ambition walks and a bit of luck to be taken on by a team the bucks apiece for them to realize these guys will take him off the box so basically. you basically have to get discovered. there squirt the never. told he is from

a small town in the austrian region of science come a goat when he doesn't happen to be training at the gaming house in berlin he lives here with his mother brother and several cats and dogs. he was thrilled by computer games from an early age that once again the go at the were back when they were in kindergarten pokémon was really and his brother got started playing with pickup children a game boy. and toby was interested i mean his brother benyamin was 5 and he was 3 he would watch benyamin play and wanted to himself that's how things started. but they played outside too and were just in front of the t one house not to be extinct. and to make developing story tell family and you know i'm proud of has his grandma used to always say he shouldn't play so much but now she would be proud of him to you unfortunately she wasn't around anymore to see this but she would be proud of him too i am myself now it me to wiley.

but many people still have misconceptions about how much an average pro gamer earns . mancini. people are really interested in his life so some people think we have tons of money that he makes loads playing each month and rakes in prize money i scanned a whole lot because many people have heard of some 1000000 dollar prize that someone got all for themselves really all of that yes but that's never the case with this game and yet people think so anyway and of a lot of people say why do you worry so much about money you have so much now but tobias' less now than he did before at his normal office job but he's living history and that's worth a lot yeah furia. tobey is one of those rare gamers to have managed to the 1st step after signing a 2 year contract with a nice sports organization he now has hardly any time left for his girlfriend. the

outlook is uncertain if you don't when you're around the same goes for his teammates. to be learned so it's on the end of the season players either get a new contract or get replaced. on bones were most of our team ended up getting replaced when the contract expired. on it's gibbs and i can you go on thinking it's our now there's a new league and i'm getting a new contract. so it's of when they wanted to give me a new contract because they were happy with me because they don't support fishburne my top goal is to join the ranks of the real pros and from there i want to win the world championship you know there was this more it's what every pro game i want this is mine but that's another very big step to keep up with the international pros and when it really takes skill on this concert this is a show on those of the most trying to get some course does this force. toby isn't

the only one relying on a bright gaming future the biggest winners of the sport hype are the game developers world championships with exorbitant sums of prize money are the perfect advertising. and the sports are growing bigger and bigger. but as with anything that grows rapidly the question arises ari sports a bubble at risk of bursting. into blossom to finish up on the us by definition a bubble means that something about the very foundation isn't right and that the business somehow doesn't deliver what it claims to talk to if you know and yet we currently have 452500 1000000 is sports fans worldwide generating a bit over a 1000000000 euros of sales this season when the maybe you can see the business is just getting started and will grow much bigger focus in the few quotes of its. sports are no longer some nerdy meet they are here to stay. but while europe is still debating whether they even qualify as sport at all in sports in asia are

already on par with an olympic discipline. that is the spirit century is a go when germany was read unified in the tuba 1919 at the time the economic disparity between east and west was huge. today how have things changed for the people in the to the country i'll have companies. made in germany. 90 minutes on d w. if it is for me. is for.

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