ONLINE GAMING INDUSTRY
There are a ton of tournaments going on around the world that have an enormous amount of cash prizes take for example the Fortnite championship the winner of that tournament kyle bugha geirsdarf won a 3 million dollar cash prize.
This kid has won 3 million dollars by just playing a video game. But here is the catch you have to split that money among your team. But even after splitting the money you still got enough money which most people cannot earn by working a whole year.
This kid has won 3 million dollars by just playing a video game. But here is the catch you have to split that money among your team. But even after splitting the money you still got enough money which most people cannot earn by working a whole year.
Now the question arises was it just playing a video game-like everyone normally does? The answer is no professional gamers who compete in competitions have to go through very tough training which is mostly connected to your brain such as a normal athlete in the NFL who spends 45 minutes weightlifting, he spent 1 hour in aerobic exercises then did 3.5 to 4 hours of practice on the field off-season.
An NBA player does 1.5 to 2 hours of exercise and practices 6 to 8 hours a day and 4 to 5 days a week. On the other hand, an e-athlete follows a strict regimen for example Robert Morris University Illinois was the first university to create a varsity e-sport team in America. Currently, their teams play league of legends, heroes of the storm, and smash brother in the national and international tournaments around the world.
They follow strict regiments which include 7 hours of playtime every single weekday from 2 to 9 pm players also play on their weekends for hours and for professional players school training can be more intense. OPTIC GAMING one of the world's best e-sport teams based out of the Chicago area has a brutal and strenuous regiment.
They know that social media outreach is also critical to the success of any e-athlete as well as actual playtime. Therefore their players often wake up at 10 am and upload at least two record matches on youtube after uploading starts live-streaming gamers will play for up to 12 hours in front of a live audience. Athletes' training requires more physical demand than most professional athletes.
In 2016 german sports university research shows that ex-athletes produce cortisol a stress hormone in their bodies equivalent to a race driver and achieved a heart rate as high as 160 to 180 beats a minute equivalent to running a marathon this is because of executing rapid eye-hand and arm movements and also engaging multiple portions of the brain simultaneously which include conducting high-level critical thinking as they formulate tactics to respond opponents move.
This results in engaging the brain in a way that most physical sports cannot do. Now you know that it is not only just sitting on your couch and playing your favorite game it takes a lot more than that to do it professionally and after all this hard work the average winning prize in competition varies from 3-to 9 million dollars and if you are planning to chose e-sports as a career than you should know that only winning the competition will not pay all the bills you have to make a youtube channel and you also have to live steam for hours to meet the ends of living. Now you can relate that hoe e-sports is much more intense 
than traditional sports.
But still, it is a growing industry and if you are willing to sacrifice and made all that hard work then you can live almost all your dreams. it is an industry that is worth almost 139 billion dollars bigger than the box office(42 billion), music streaming and album sales(19 billion), NFL(15 billion), NBA(8 billion), MLB(10 billion ), and NHL(5 billion) dollars combined.
Almost 111 million people watched the super bowl making it one of the most-watched events on television but on the opposite side of that only red dead redemption made 725 million dollars on its opening weekend and if we talk about live streaming then on twitch the largest live streaming platform on today's date have 15 million visitors per day and according to toa survey 12.4 billion people play video games.
Well, it is a booming industry you can make a huge amount of money by creating a game or just by playing it. So I hope if you are interested in making e-sports a profession this blog will help you tell me in comments what you liked and what you didn't and ill see you guys very very soon
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