eSports

Competitive spectator video game playing for money. Like "real" sports (NBA basketball, NFL football, professional wrestling...well, maybe less that last one), only the "athletes" are playing video games instead of running around, chasing balls, and/or crashing into each other.

ESports is now larger as an industry than the NFL. Kids sit around watching other kids play video games. And do other virtual things, like have Lego Robot Wars with BotBall. Amazon paid a billion bucks and change for Twitch, which is the repository for most of these "sports."

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