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Esports are video games which are played in professional competitions, usually fall into a few major genres.The majority of esports titles are fighting games, first-person shooters (FPS), real-time strategy (RTS), traditional sports, and multiplayer online battle arena games (MOBA), with the MOBA genre being the most popular in terms of participation and viewership.
League of Legends, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and Overwatch are the three most-watched esports in the world.
Twitch, an online streaming platform launched in 2011, routinely streams popular esports competitions. In 2013, viewers of the platform watched 12 billion minutes of video on the service, with the two most popular Twitch broadcasters being League of Legends and Dota 2. [59]
The Season 3 World Championship grand final broadcast on 4 October was watched by 32 million people with a peak concurrent viewership of 8.5 million. [22] The numbers once again beat the previous records for esports viewership.
The flagship Esports and competitive video games festival in Sri Lanka. Hosted since 2008, the event organized by Gamer.LK brings participants from across Sri Lanka together as they battle it out across the most popular Esports titles in the country. [21] [22] [23] Sri Lanka: 2008–2018 Tougeki – Super Battle Opera
With the ability for anyone to watch from home on their devices, esports viewership reached 213 million in 2016 and continues to grow every year. [15] Popular eSports titles include Call of Duty, Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, Fortnite, League of Legends, and Overwatch. [16]
Over 1.6 million viewers watched the streamed broadcast of the event, with a peak of over 210,000 simultaneous viewers in one semi-final match. [4] After Season 1, Riot announced that US$5,000,000 would be paid out over Season 2. Of this amount, $2 million was to go to Riot's partners, including the IPL and other major esports associations.
A total of 18 teams competes for the FFWS trophy, which was won by Phoenix Force (EVOS Esports TH). [11] The Free Fire World Series 2021 became the most watched esports event at the time with over 5.4 million peak live viewers, surpassing the 2021 League of Legends World Championship, which had 4 million peak viewers. [12]