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electronic sport
noun
An activity that involves playing video games competitively
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Through its integration with Blizzard's pioneering Battle.net online service, it was StarCraft that took Blizzard global, becoming the national electronic sport of South Korea along the way.
While impressive and far beyond my abilities, translating a physical sport into a virtual version is a less virtuosic activity than creating an entirely new electronic sport — which is what the creators of many online multiplayer video games have pulled off.
Rogers, the game's designer, describes the game as "an abstract minimalist electronic sport".
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They are the golf of electronic sports.
Welcome to the next generation of collegiate competition: electronic sports.
Indeed, it is the internet that makes electronic sports possible in the first place.
But this prize seems small when compared with others in electronic sports.
The most accomplished woman in the young history of electronic sports.
One of baseball's premiere franchises had been accused of electronic sports espionage.
This heightened "spectacularization" of the electronic sports media is designed to maintain the interest of sports fans and to attract detached viewers seeking sensation and stimulation.
With a prize pool of $10.9m, the sum is a record for such competitions, known as electronic sports or e-sports.
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