Good luck have fun
Subtitle: the rise of eSports
By: Roland Li
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781634506571
Subjects: Competitions; Video games
Description: "Describes the high-stakes, cutthroat and hugely popular industry of competitive and professional gaming and explores the players, companies and games that have attracted the same sort of sacrifices and fervor as professional sports,"--NoveList.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-249).
Table of contents: title: Pre-game: why video games matter; title: The evil genius: Alex Garfield and the rise of North America; title: The Emperor of Seoul: BoxeR and Brood War; title: Nuclear launch detected: Starcraft II explodes; title: Stream dreams: Twitch; title: A challenger appears: League of Legends ascends; title: Unbalanced: women, race, and gaming; title: Capital Flood: big money comes to eSports (again); title: The road to $18 million: the Fifth International; title: The players.