E-Sports Arena To Boost Spectator Gaming

By Nick Ravenscroft, Sky Reporter

The UK's first eSports arena will open this weekend allowing hundreds of spectators to watch professional gamers take part in contests.

The tournaments will be held at a converted multiplex cinema in Fulham, west London, over seven months.

eSports - or electronic sports - are popular video games played over the internet.

There are thought to be some five million eGaming fans in the UK

Internet developments in the past 10 years have meant millions of people worldwide can follow top players gaming live, in real time, and hear their commentaries on their performance.

In countries like South Korea, where eGaming is virtually a national sport, with huge stadiums packed with up to 40,000 spectators, the best players are celebrities.

Currently the numbers of fans eGaming in the UK is thought to be around five million. Those behind the UK arena think the UK scene is about to take off.

Neville Upton, from Gfinity, told Sky News: "The growth is phenomenal. The last big event we did we got 8.7 million people watching just over a weekend.

"Twitch TV is the main platform where we actually stream all our events. This time last year they had 45 million people watching every month - that figure is now a hundred million."

The revenue from sponsorship and advertising is already impressive as the eSports demographic is mainly men in their teens and twenties - a key, hard-to-reach demographic.

And that money is making some of the best young players precociously wealthy.

Sky News asked 20-year-old Nathan 'NBK' Schmitt how much he earned in a typical year.

"Including all the tournaments, sponsorship and extras it's currently hundreds of thousands of dollars… me and my team mates. Yes. Wow."

Anda sedang membaca artikel tentang

E-Sports Arena To Boost Spectator Gaming

Dengan url

http://hajimabruroh.blogspot.com/2015/03/e-sports-arena-to-boost-spectator-gaming.html

Anda boleh menyebar luaskannya atau mengcopy paste-nya

E-Sports Arena To Boost Spectator Gaming

namun jangan lupa untuk meletakkan link

E-Sports Arena To Boost Spectator Gaming

sebagai sumbernya