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 ID: 628329
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Competitive Video Gaming
By: Tyler BusbySlide2
Overview
Landmark competitive gamesCompetitive video game cultureLives of professional gamersSlide3
Competitive Gaming Genres
First Person Shooter
Doom
Doom II
Quake
Halo
Call of Duty
Real-Time StrategyStarCraft Warcraft IIIStarCraft IIFightingStreet FighterKing of FightersMortal KombatTekkenMarvel vs. CapcomOnline Multiplayer Battle ArenaDefense of the Ancients (DotA)Heroes of NewerthLeague of LegendsSlide4
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 Slide5
Street Fighter II
Started the fighter game boom of the 90’sImproved upon older fighter’s game mechanics
Had a huge following in Hong KongSlide6
StarCraft
Most critically acclaimed RTSGameplay is extremely balanced and has been extensively praisedLargest competitive gaming scene
Extremely popular in South KoreaSlide7
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 broadcastsSlide8
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 AmericaSlide9
American Competition
Evolution Championship Series is a fighting game championship held in Las Vegas annuallyEvo 2011 had 2,400 participants and thousands of spectators, as well as 2 million unique online stream viewersSlide10
American Competition Cont.
Major League gaming holds professional gaming tournaments for many different gamesThe Anaheim Pro Circuit drew 20,000 fans and over 35 million streams online
Viewership is steadily increasing