Interesting facts about Esports that you may not know

Esports is increasingly growing, along with countless notable milestones in recent years such as Kyle 'Bugha' Giersdorf, a 16-year-old boy who became a millionaire when winning the Fortnite World Cup, Arslan 'Arslan Ash' Siddique became the first Pakistani player to win the Evo...

Not only that, there are many other facts about Esports that you may have never heard of and will make you extremely surprised to know. Let's explore with TipsMake.com now.

The International 2021 is the Esports tournament with the highest total prize money of all time

Valve's 2021 annual tournament The International (TI) has become the tournament with the highest total prize money of all time with a figure of up to 40 million USD. Accordingly, the total prize pool was crowdfunded by players and fans.

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Team Spirit, TI 2021 champions won 18.2 million USD. Of which, each member will receive 3.6 million USD.

The first Esports tournament took place in 1972

The first Esports tournament is said to have taken place on October 19, 1972, when Stanford University hosted the Intergalactic Spacewar Olympics tournament of the PDP-1 computer game Spacewar.

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The tournament has three categories: Open to everyone, team competition and singles competition.

Bruce Baumgart was the winner of the everyone category, with the prize being a one-year subscription to Rolling Stone magazine.

The number of viewers for the 2019 League of Legends World Championship match is larger than the 2020 Super Bowl

In 2019, more than 100 million viewers watched the League of Legends World Championship when FunPlus Phoenix defeated G2 Esports to win their first World Championship in history.

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Meanwhile, only 98.8 million viewers watched the 2020 NFL Super Bowl when the Kansa City Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers.

THE GOAT of gaming holds 2 Guinness records

Daigo 'TheBeast' Umehara is considered the GOAT of the fighting game genre. After two decades of competition, Daigo has brought home 6 Evo championships and two Guinness World Records.

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In it, he and Justin Wong competed in the most viewed fighting game match in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike at Evo 2004 also known as Evo moment 37 and another record for Longest Win Streak.

The Beast has also published five books and is even the main character in the manga Umehara FIGHTING GAMERS! revolves around Daigo's life as a young Street Fighter player.

Professional Counter-Strike team whose members are elders

This Counter-Strike team consists of five people ranging in age from 70 to 80 years old from Sweden. The Silver Snipers won the Seniors World Cup defeating Finland, the United States and Germany.

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Silver Snipers' current roster includes:

Öivind 'Windy' Toverud
Inger 'Trigger Finger' Grotteblad
Rick 'CrazyB00mer' La Roche

Abbe 'BirDie' Borg, retired Silver Snipers player shared his experience playing for his team.

'At the age of 78, I was able to achieve my goal and become world champion. It was surprising but a great feat for someone my age. Esports has many benefits, one of which is promoting connections between generations.

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