Competitive Video Gaming By: Tyler Busby

Overview Landmark competitive games Competitive video game culture Lives of professional gamers

Competitive Gaming Genres First Person Shooter Doom Doom II Quake Halo Call of Duty Real-Time Strategy StarCraft Warcraft III StarCraft II Fighting Street Fighter King of Fighters Mortal Kombat Tekken Marvel vs. Capcom Online Multiplayer Battle Arena Defense of the Ancients (DotA) Heroes of Newerth League of Legends

Doom Pioneered “Deathmatching” Innovative technology for its time First game to achieve widespread multiplayer success Major precursor to all modern games, especially competitive FPS games

Street Fighter II Started the fighter game boom of the 90’s Improved upon older fighter’s game mechanics Had a huge following in Hong Kong

StarCraft Most critically acclaimed RTS Gameplay is extremely balanced and has been extensively praised Largest competitive gaming scene Extremely popular in South Korea

Professional StarCraft Competition StarCraft became extremely popular in South Korea in around 2002 Professional players were organized into teams South Korea has two television channels devoted to 24/7 StarCraft match broadcasts

SlayerS_’BoxeR’ The most successful professional (StarCraft) gamer with 547 career wins Annually he earns more than $490,000 and is heavily endorsed His fan club of over a million members endearingly refers to him as “The Emperor” In 2010 he retired from the professional Korean StarCraft leagues to start his own team for StarCraft II in America

American Competition Evolution Championship Series is a fighting game championship held in Las Vegas annually Evo 2011 had 2,400 participants and thousands of spectators, as well as 2 million unique online stream viewers

American Competition Cont. Major League gaming holds professional gaming tournaments for many different games The Anaheim Pro Circuit drew 20,000 fans and over 35 million streams online Viewership is steadily increasing