WATCHING PEOPLE PLAY video games has existed ever since man first huddled around a Pong cabinet. But watching people play video games on a global scale, via social networks built for the purpose, as they compete for purses of up to $40 million—this is relatively new.
E-sports are and if you’ve been ignoring them because you don’t think they qualify as a sport, or you think this is (yet another) weird teen thing, or stop shaking your fist at a cloud and open a Twitch account, because e-sports are exactly the refuge you need now.
