Major event: Competitive video gaming will have another run on television.
Sean Gares has played video games in sold-out arenas and for millions more fans online, but soon he will be playing in front of a new audience: US television viewers.
Competitive video gaming is set to return to television with the Tuesday launch of a 10-week gaming league that will partly be broadcast on cable network TBS. Gares, 27, hopes the league will finally validate so-called eSports in the eyes of a long-skeptical American public.
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