Broadcasters Take Long View With eSports

摘要

ON MAY 13, the Electronic Sports League (ESL)-a Germany-based, competitive video gaming coalition with more than 7 million members-formed the World eSports Association (WESA), a first-of-its kind organization geared toward standardizing competitive video gaming. The founding gaming teams of WESA include Mous-esports, Ninjas in Pyjamas and EnVyUs. If this all sounds bizarre, then perhaps you haven't been watching closely-eSports has mostly shed its "teen in his mom's basement" image, growing to a booming and popular international industry, bringing in a half-billion dollars in revenue in 2016, according to data from PricewaterhouseCoo-pers (PwC).