What is Esports?

Esports is virtual sport. For many young people, it has entirely replaced the typical football or basketball endeavours and instead they focus on developing a career in playing computer games. At first this might sound crazy, but esports is actually a viable industry with lots of chances to get famous and actually earn a living. So what is esports?

According to the Cambridge Dictionary, esports is “the activity of playing computer games against other people on the internet, often for money, and often watched by other people using the internet, sometimes at special organized events”. This of course only scratches the surface of the matter. Esports is a competition that brings people from all over the world and from all walks of life together. Tournaments are (mostly) gender-neutral and offer far more opportunities for people with disabilities to compete alongside able people.