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A new age: the links between traditional and eSports

You’re watching a game on your laptop with two teams with completely skill sets battling it out. Your watching the championship — the end of a long season — and you’re so invested that you dedicated your entire day to watching. You’re not watching the Super Bowl, though. You’re watching the League of Legends World Championship — along with an audience of 27 million.

There are different sides to the conversation, but there are many similarities between eSports and traditional sports that can’t be ignored.

eSports is a newer genre of entertainment that has taken hold in the digital age in which teams are formed to compete in video games on a professional level.