Esports Evangelists Want To Bring Gaming To A Broader Audience
For all its recent success, Esports still has a bit of a problem.
In less than a decade, competitive video gaming has become a global phenomenon with multi-billions in revenue and hundreds of millions of fans.
But for all who embrace Esports, there are those who remain on the outside.
This is a thing?
How big is Esports? Big enough to poke fun at. A recent Saturday Night Live comedy sketch featured Chance the Rapper as a fish-out-of-water Esport reporter.
"In a nutshell," he says in the skit, describing an Esports competition, "there are 10 nerdy dudes, sitting down at computers with headsets on, while 20,000 people scream like they were watching the Beatles.
"I did not know this was a thing."
Chris Greeley knows it's a thing. He's a former securities litigator who, for the last two years, has been the commissioner of the League Championship Series. The League Championship Series is the North That's the game SNL lampooned, and Greeley loved it.
