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meat industry is controlling your thoughts here tends to lean to the rail science it's not easy to spot. the great books of the 20th century. present day hoaxes. and who's behind the. manufacturing ignorance starts may 3rd on d. w. . the hype around e-sports is real competitive video gaming has been on the rise for years and in 2020 it attracted over 400000000 viewers in some countries gaming is even pot a national college but with the success come new challenges e-sports i want topic on shift today.

in 1909 the multiplayer 1st person shooter video game counter-strike was released today the international counterstrike tournaments with millions of us this would have been unthinkable to play s 20. years ago for one thing the internet back then was often too slow for opponents to play online so they had to have local area network or parties beyond that no one dreamed you could money through gaming the daughter the international is one of the world's biggest sports events this year's prize pool is almost 35000000 year olds no doubt this contributions to the popularity of sports which even the coronavirus make didn't. like the. bit when peroni hands. like. have to be held to actually. even larger audiences for the electronic sports league.

kind of a word to any traditional sports or other entertainment events. so even during the e.s.l. pro league group stages before the playoffs we saw 3 times as many viewers as we hung jury in the playoffs last year. the playoffs in 2021 the top games are still fast pass and shooting games like counter-strike suffer games like the fat will privately. on strategy games like league of legends wanted to over the past few months and lots of people have also been playing valley rent which combines the hero base your tiziana with tactical gameplay what's a target there should be and people are not rich enough games are still being developed to appeal to players but now they're also made to be fun to watch. valor and is therefore in a very good starting position. because of its connection to league of legends or

rather the target audience right it already has it has an easier access to the markets and other sports games markets to their nonstop. league of legends still has huge numbers of fans around the world including. young from seoul oath dream of competing with top players in an international e-sports championship south korea's capital does offer the best training conditions sports players likely fake us are new york are treated like pop stars and the sports newcomers actively recruited the nurturing grounds of all those south korea's p.c. bounce which sounds exciting but it actually just means p.c. rooms. large internet the face with up to over 100 computers woodin and didn't sue took us to see what. it's saturday incentives and student districts and weston still didn't engines who are good friends. and almost every day they meet at it and

there are around 4500 of these internet cafes in salone a new ones open all the time. well there aren't as many prejudices today. before a few games a lot of people would see you as being addicted to computer games. but now if you are good that's something to be proud of. times have changed here's a bit of my. game of choice is league of legends one of the most successful video games in the wild. teves of 5 people with different characters fight against one another the goal is to destroy the other team's base. engine says both have computers at home but they prefer play n.p.c. buying the venue's are more than just places to play for many young south koreans

they're an important part of their social lives. the day we were in route with ginger and sue happened to be a game day for the south korean league of legends leake a number of professional teams compete in the league and transfer fees for top players can be in the millions of euros almost like with soccer stars. many fans don't stay on the culture at home and so those who prefer to watch the games in eastport spot. this is retro game. although there's nothing retro about the game being shown today to top teams from the south korean league i played against each other. when the season is underway this shows matches almost every day . can't get enough of them that proper nerds as they call themselves. the game is over the world is there going. gaming culture has

definitely risen and pristine beach. gaming has become so popular that we could watch much as like these here and to be open and free. i don't know if you know there. are millions of fans and millions of euros and prizes and sponsorship that sounds like a success story but not everything in gaming is gold the one thing that struck me is that they are usually may meet men in the top teams women. but in east boards especially in the professional sector laws much less than their male colleagues in the ana juniper black is america and one of the best known few may have cost us. lives for us she did commentary on the sports events for years mainly from european and chinese leaks for her one of the biggest problems in gaming is massaging the sexism in society is bad sexism in gaming is worse and that's not to take away all

the good that gay men can do as a community because it can be simultaneously one of the most inclusive and wonderful communities and also one of the most vitriolic and hateful communities you know if you're on voice comms and you have a woman's voice you were instantly met with a bunch of backlash it's very easy to check just going to you to fold i one of those rabbit holes through really fun to watch this all of the vitriol that can come out women when they're just trying to play the game at a casual and for fun level never mind at a professional level. indiana often experience this herself. these days she only occasionally streams which. she also gave forecasting a while ago you sport scene which just to talk sic any of my male colleagues if i say anything it just means less than if they said it and after thousands of hours and thousands of statements just meeting less a venture you just can't take it anymore so is the industry doing anything. to

improve the situation we put the question to chris to organize a of the tournament the. league the sports scene mirrors younger society many people spend time there under the cover of online on an embassy they so you think something probably wouldn't say you know real life face to face. that's why it's important to implement rules here as well. you know or very strict about these. events during a brawl costs but. that's the only way you can guarantee that anyone who wants to take part or watch can do so in a safe environment. there is still a lot to do women in these balls are provided with adequate support and some end up quitting the game scene feeling frustrated that's not acceptable and it also means a lot of potential is being wasted so when might this change versa lucian's on the

problem won't be fixed and the next 5 hear is it will be fixed when i have children and i raise them to love video games as much as i do when and hopefully if they have an interest in it they become a part of this community that's when the problem will be fixed and it's interesting that that's one of the few areas where women and men there's no biological difference what you're competing and like we all agree that men can run faster than women and men are stronger than women but e-sports you're not running or trying to move everything you're on a mouse and keyboard so it should be a level playing field but because of the inherent massaging of that comes with it women aren't. all wow would really take up enough space to to get that good everybody should be able to make the most of their potential in east balls ornament operators even advertise with this promise it's a global market in abidjan the largest city in the core d'ivoire many young people train hard every day off to school. every afternoon after school young people fill

this cafe it work in district of average odd. petty 5 year old city cracker yes it's found. all through i was 4 or 5 years old when i started playing video games at 1st we just watched our older brothers play my big brother had a computer as i grew older i started playing more too especially at university. and his passion into a profession these days he has a deep understanding of the gaming market as boys are becoming more popular in and across africa the industry is providing an froehlich number of jobs and the number gamers have big dreams. and i don't just play here to have fun i want to be the best and to be the best you have to keep playing i'm discovering. sidique back yoko wants to build the largest gaming community in africa he's working with

a number of startups to help them develop games for the local market. and you. are starting to see a number of local studios entering the gaming market. very making content that contains the colors sounds and stories from here he says you know. what us up in this also allows africa to also be represented in the gaming universe . the market has a lot of potential internet and smartphone technology on. on the uptake in africa and 2 thirds of the population under $35.00 millions a game is a few is and many are eager for content with which they can identify platform games like craigslist and semblance from south africa or the action role playing game korea from cameroon global hits. for the moment the african market is still

comparatively small. but thanks to gaming enthusiastic like civic macchiato there's kitsune changed. the east coast market in africa is booming according to one study the continent's spots audience that was 30000000 in 2020 and is expected to rise to 53000000 by 2023 no wonder at the planned africa sports series attracted international investors professional teams from 16 african countries are set to compete in the series what's your take on the market can you suppose be a global game changer one that drives innovation and helps regions florist or have they been overhyped that is not on you tube facebook or the d w dot com and until next time.

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