Drive for Olympic status threatens eSports split


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 06 Dec 2017

LGD Gaming players, with their trophies on display, practicing at the one of the team's villas in Shanghai.

The drive to get eSports into the Olympics threatens to divide professional gaming, pitting those thirsty for global recognition against the traditionalists who fear the sport will lose its soul. 

Once associated with teenagers stuck in their bedrooms, eSports is growing fast, the top players making millions of dollars and tournaments playing out to thousands of spectators in stadiums and many more online.

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