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The burgeoning evolution of eSports: From the fringes to front and center [pdf]

2 pointsby vvvvabout 9 years ago

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eganistabout 9 years ago
They featured Smash on the cover page, and yet despite both Melee and Smash 4 having robust and <i>entirely home-grown</i> eSports scenes (sponsored and covered by both Red Bull and Twitch), there&#x27;s not one mention of the word &quot;Smash&quot; anywhere in the doc. The only fighting game mentioned appears to be Mortal Kombat, and as far as I can tell, that scene is negligible compared to Street Fighter and especially Melee. (source: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.esportsearnings.com&#x2F;games" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.esportsearnings.com&#x2F;games</a> both tournament count and award size)<p>I&#x27;m not even a participant in any eSports scene let alone Smash, but from the perspective of an outsider such as myself, this would seem to be a grave oversight by PWC.