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A brief overview of the esports leagues

Electronic sports or esports are not just video games. This is an organized video game competition where the winner gets an exciting money prize. Gone are the days when the video game was restricted to a specific cybercafé and two players competed against each other. Now the video game competition is organized in a stadium where many players participate. There are many spectators there watching the competition. The players have to abide by the rules and guidance. Esports was first organized in California. Recently, the esports industry has flourished all over the world.

The story of esports pro league

It is a professional league. This league is spread over four regions. These are America, Asia, Oceania, and Europe. There are 24 teams participating in this league each season and there are 12 permanent partner teams.  It started its operation in May in the year of 2015. An electronic sports league is the owner of the esports pro league. The headquarter of this league is in Cologne, Germany. Facebook, Twitch, and YouTube are TV partners for this pro league.    

The discussion about the esports league

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Teams will play various games in a season to get the top position in the league. Until 2018, several leagues of legend series are operated by riot games. Teams did not perform well from that series:

  • Call of duty league: This franchise-based league is about to start In January in the year 2020. This replaced the call of the duty world league. Call of duty, Modern warfare, and PlayStation 4 are played.
  • Capcom cup: Capcom sponsored street fighter match in the United States. It has continued from 2013 to now.
  • Ultimate battle: It consists of All India open esports league and CS: GO, DOTA 2, FIFA are included here. It has been continued from 2017 to now in India.
  • COBX Masters: dota2 and CS: GO was organized over India from 2018 to the present.
  • Code wars: Code warriors were organized by Interschool technology. Gaming events like FIFA have been included in India since 1997 till now.
  • Cybergamer: This is an Oceania-based esports league. This has been continuing from 2007 onwards.
  • DEW Arena: The tournament was organized in Gurugram and DOTA2 and CS: GO competitions were organized. It was launched in 2016 and onwards.
  • Egames is the tournament organized over the various countries since 2016
  • Dreamhack: This is the biggest computer festival and esports competitions have been included here since 1994 in Sweden and Canada.
  • European gaming league: This league mainly concentrates on the UK AND Europe. They started operation in 2007.
  • Apex legends Global series: The prize money is the US $3 million. . Online matches are started and after that premier tournaments and end up with big tournaments. This started in 2020.
  • Fortnite world cup: This Fortnite match rewards the prize money of $30000. This operation was launched in 2019.
  • The international esports federation; is organized only for the world championship for national teams. It started operation in the 2009 King league; The tournament was organized in China for Arena of valour in 2017.