E-sports is a kind of sports in which electronic games reach the level of "competition". E-sports is an intellectual confrontation between people who use electronic equipment as sports equipment. Through exercise, participants' thinking ability, reaction ability, physical and mental coordination ability and willpower can be exercised and improved, and team spirit can be cultivated.

E-sports is also a profession, similar to non-video game competitions such as chess. On June165438+1October 18, 2003, the State Sports General Administration officially approved e-sports as the 99th official sports competition. In 2008, the State General Administration of Sport changed e-sports into the No.78 official sports competition.

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Development history

As early as 1986, two children tried to play Nintendo games on live TV, which was regarded as the beginning of e-sports. Red and white machine is an early classic of home machine. After the birth of the red and white machine, the embryonic form of e-sports has appeared.

1998, StarCraft is on sale. The economic crisis has caused a lot of unemployment, and many people use this game to kill time. So a Korean TV producer had a brainwave and began to produce the related programs of StarCraft.

The development of e-sports in the world has lasted for more than ten years, but no country has a complete e-sports industrial chain like South Korea. Many clubs and activities are short-lived and will eventually close down because of losses.

As early as June165438+1October, 2003, the State General Administration of Sport recognized e-sports as the 99th sport officially launched in China, but it did not bring changes to the domestic e-sports industry.

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