social media is on the festival. you might say you're almost always on the job as an influencer airstream writes you chips out a stream of. he pursues his true passion e-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 a nice sports millionaire. who rose to leahy taka saw me take a kuroki has already won over 4500000 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. is back you know i was one of just 3 game is in my cards and. you know everyone wants to play i wish me and i love this last which everyone knows about twitch and they watch video streams and t.v. strangely on your computer all funny little phone. 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. in town come as you can imagine how that went down it was the beginning there on the tunisian ish big ice that my parents weren't thrilled of course. they wanted me to go to college as soon as possible to dealing become a lawyer. it's almost like 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 high punk. after i graduated from high school i asked my parents to give me 6 months to prove what i was capable of and we supervise and they reluctantly agreed and i ended up being very successful on. that and how to fly. around that time i came in 2nd in the world championship the international media international from then on my whole life changed the outside i was going to meet him i'm leaving him as a. team that's always been his way since he was a kid us that mushmouth going to go down he says i'm doing this is a fraternity i don't worry because i trust him if he says he'll do something he does it that's it and if he says he won't he doesn't get his act.

but his 1st of course is this area so we had our reservations my dunking all this game is if. you want his 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. as a. plays the real time strategy game dota to. the professional gaming scene has grown tremendously over the past 10 years but in the early days many who dreamed of success were exploited the 2 got cheated out of prize money and travel expenses. when noirs are homes leaving e-sports is still quite young and when something new like yours appears it draws the attention of a lot of business men 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 owners 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 and he's really easy actually and there was so much as i say i'm following a. 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 must please listen to please you just need to listen to. i did actually talk so much my controller talking how i support was what was more i don't talk so much i'll be like stress i go more stuff no normal you guys are soldiers ok you're the best players play don't talk to me don't talk and 2019 he and his team unanimously decided to leave these sports organization team liquid and establish their own

organization called team enigma i buy them the 5 players had one point $2000000.00 in prize money some $20000000.00 euro. as a roofies noticed same transistor i smile and we travel 1020 or 30 times a year depending on how successful we are having dota in particular is very travel heavy possums and that kind of set sees boards of heart in general and that even conventional force in the regional under every thing is close by for 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 a jet lag and time zones then i read. and to europe it's been a while. and sometimes this goes on to all 3 times a month i was all it totally burns you out so i wouldn't burn up with this this is one issue i think esau i will have to tackle in the coming years it was my son was in nixon on my own 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. i think it's pretty hard to say how old you can be these boards on sphere in the dark we haven't got the data going to its own program i'm basically a 1st generation pro gamers of my country and i personally think you can keep on playing when you're older washing the scintilla of 30 to 40 i can imagine as i think. it's just that like with any 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 loss or that was my goal so another 2 years ago it's not so easy what life has in store i was kind of know was

limiting being a professional gamer is a tough job involving high stakes and a lot of risk. the side of the movie that you constantly have constraints you have to win i just playing around at the top 100 in a school there is no 2nd division like in soca for example there's just the very best. you do it through a few years but then what do you do with that's the problem. besides fantasy another pro gaming genre is sport games. many soccer clubs now have their own e-sports team. clicking instead of kicking how sporting are these digital competitions. what defines a sport your heart rate a quick in polls dexterity. it's been mentioned low in the sport and some older

people may or may not think it's a sport or may say it's more or less physical if so few of us more physical than golf i can tell you that isn't a fake discus so move some of this anything beyond that's a bit of a discussion to fight hide and i think in 2 or 3 generations people will see things differently and be amazed. it's just like something i recently heard kind of go back in 1910 there were 300000 horses in boston used for transport and 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 only then you jump forward 30 years and there's not a horse to be seen possible yet it 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 need with man. who was an austrian national player for many years i. think it could be 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 1st condition is a filter and we can drop the discussion as to whether this is sports or not what this nowadays he works as an announcer for soccer matches on a big pay t.v. station which now also broadcasts e-sports finals live with great technical sophistication after all an increasing number of conventional sports channels are now investing large sums in digital sports the sports events live on a sports channel imagine watching them alongside the people world cup and ski runs the old cliche of the an athletic 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 q. and i can think what you want of young people suddenly the i'm not here to play computer

games then some say for instance why do you get paid to play soccer which is i've had these discussions before. for her part. isn't making a living off of gaming yet she plays in the east for soccer club as c.r. all top based and for all burke austria. whether f.c. basel shall go for or rapid vienna respectable soccer clubs are increasingly expected to have their own e sports team. girl conti as she calls herself on social media has made a lasting name for herself in austria's top diva division the us league go. on for 3 or 4 years i used to play in a real life women's team and fought it out i feel that i've been playing fifo for longer than i've played actual soccer and now i've switched fully to the consul and it's been even moved the vix. 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. the mostly through the end is developer he has his cups and you have to qualify for each one you collect comparable series points to the point of view and you can only collect and by taking part in. and you 1st need to qualify for the bigger then this is 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 my wife. with really great players if you might. and the players cost money. you can just buy them outright. as random collectible cards. and 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.

on. it 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 players. it's the same principle as in certain conventional sports can and i've not everyone can be a polo player you need a horse and people to play with you on a lot to deal with but i'm sure that's the same holds true in east thought. and there are certainly some very democratic disciplines anyone can try them out and play even with limited resources have. been asked. once be income quite a. big heater you know 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. and 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 mention that there are a lot of people who can't walk but they can play you sports unlike any other sport women can play on par with made any tournaments there is no difference physically the men asking top kind on to shine off a few that makes these sports much more democratic than at least half of normal sports probably even more so it's a minute and 50 points under us and it's one reason for in sports success i don't think one of them self's we're focused on them 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 you can get my current level 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 evolved shere from grosse austria is also familiar with this feeling she not only works at major new sports tournaments but also plays herself. my sense is there is usually the standard reaction that is the 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 if. you've got some like if it's very curious i'm communicative which i like of course because i also really like to talk i was coming to be on the hill but things can go right costanzo i've also had people say we want to play against this team 1st because

there's a woman and that's easy responsible and that i don't need to prove myself because i'm not inferior to the boys in. anyway 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 and this means that the. prejudices against women still persist in the gaming scene gamer girls are often laughed at the right as gamer sluts or at worst even mom. how sexist is the eastport scene. top 6 this is because internet i think it's a sexist of the internet economy to movement because they're just 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 this just 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. diverse attendance a few fashion instead but this isn't a subculture where the issue is particularly prevalent is nice with dozens of it it's just like everywhere else in society so that doesn't make it any less of a problem the point stuff this thing is i don't want to downplay it but it's simply a problem that needs to be addressed. me as 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. d. my student i'm on call most young women reach me through different channels other 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 the people there will accept me. needles suspension didn't fit into something that's not a simple. to just talk to these young women that goes 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 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 just as akin to the seashell of martial. empowering women in the gaming scene is also girl gamer festivals proclaimed objective held for the 1st time in $27.00 teams 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. that female pro gamers still don't receive nearly the same attention

and recognition as their male counterparts. there are also separate tournaments at major sporting events where only women's teams compete. they can miss falling to the. complete b.s. is the amount of intel 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 of people. from nagging the globe he said with some with us treat the issue very carefully i think for me mukesh so i would leave. this senate seat in the end we want as many women as possible to take part in the tournament both as participants and events and viewers of the online broadcast and we don't want to actually separate them i think. 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 done it has been more of the exception for us to hold special competitions is i think the bigger issue is actually cyberbullying off of kinds of a to me at my setting out 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 it's personally i'm not you know women because my team isn't completely female but i think that these female leads us sort of a safe space little girls who say hey when i go to an offline event i may just want to compare him so it's like his without any cliches without prejudice and without adding just to play a song and someone. you know fish the mess and so i think that's what it maybe takes right now to fire up the women as a sports scene but i hope of course that in 5 or 10 years time we simply won't need of. a few men you go see them up all. behind

the scenes in the 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 and later he plays the popular strategy game league of legends he's 22 years old and the game he goes by dreamer eggs besides training for hours each day he manages all his social media channels himself and streams videos to keep his fans in good spirit it was over so fans other went off so this man's want to get to know the play is there was in real life people to see the player to know what they look like for example ronald it looks like this in the face looks like this and he's already like. it when you're in a game see a virtual avatar and the 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. so this is this was different i think 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 mansion house there were certain services and then you're in a place with people you only knew through the internet until then. of course you know the name and you know roughly how they look because there are photos 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's work play this game. 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 and. 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. we

want to look for a spin is pretty good different in using this guy thing as a living off of gaming is the most all something in the world for a young person to do this i would for my students in the show it was my goal to achieve that goal and i didn't storm here till i made of. dozens of here this is. getting there is incredibly difficult one thing often working on the basics and some other games are older than me and i've been at this game for years but still haven't reached their goals it's a show ya. on. 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 boss of me so then to realise this guy and good will take him out of 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 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 to go up the up back when they were in kindergarten pokémon was really and his brother got started playing with pickup sure on a game boy. and toby was interested in 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. me develop a story tell family and you might know i'm proud of 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 you get me to wiley. but many people still have misconceptions about how much an average pro game a earns. monte lemon. on thailand people are really interested in his life some people think we have tons of money that he makes loads playing each month and rakes in prize money i scan the whole lot because many people have heard of some 1000000 dollar prize that someone got all for themselves really only that yes but that's never the case with this game 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 to be as less now than he did before at his normal office job but he's living history and that's worth a lot you often. told me as 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. she learned 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 its dips and i had me go on thinking it's all and 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 if 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 at the most trying to get them course now does this force. toby isn't the only one relying on a bright gaming future. the biggest winners of the eastport 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 are a sports a bubble at risk of bursting. into blossom to finance a home bust 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 e-sports fans worldwide generating a bit over a 1000000000 euros of sales this year and when the maybe you can see the business is just getting started and will grow much bigger the few close of its. sports are

no longer some. they are here to stay. but while europe is still debating whether they even qualify as sport and all the sports in asia are already on par with an olympic discipline. what does home mean after 3 decades of a unified germany. in the for. the 5 largest. to squash.

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