The Billion Dollar Industry of Professional Video Game Battles

The Billion Dollar Industry of Professional Video Game Battles
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(Bloomberg) -- Do you ever spend time online watching people compete with each other at playing video games? Perhaps not (yet), but this pastime known as esports is turning into a popular and potentially lucrative category of sports entertainment. This week, Bloomberg Technology's Joshua Brustein meets a team of professional gamers, as well as the team owners (including former NBA star Rick Fox) helping them battle their way to the top of a League of Legends championship. In the process, Josh and Aki Ito explore what it takes to build an esports league from scratch.

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To contact the authors of this story: Joshua Brustein in New York at jbrustein@bloomberg.net, Aki Ito in San Francisco at aito16@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Pia Gadkari at pgadkari@bloomberg.net, Liz Smith Magnus Henriksson

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