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Inside Esports
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Esports – or competitive gaming – is the latest member of the Olympic family. Following the first ever World Cup of esports – taking place right now in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, this time next year the inaugural Esports Olympics will take place in the same city.
Esports is already worth $2.4bn annually, and it’s predicted to grow by 20% a year. So what is behind that growth? How does it all work? And what do you need to do to become a world-class competitive gamer?
In this edition of The Agenda, Juliet Mann speaks to Ralf Reichert, Chief Executive of the Esports World Cup Foundation, Mario Ho, Co-founder and Co-CEO of NIP Group, the first Chinese Esports company to list on the NASDAQ stock exchange, and Jake Trotman, competitive gamer and Assistant Lecturer in Esports business at the University of Salford
126 episodes
Manage episode 436459180 series 2801300
Esports – or competitive gaming – is the latest member of the Olympic family. Following the first ever World Cup of esports – taking place right now in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, this time next year the inaugural Esports Olympics will take place in the same city.
Esports is already worth $2.4bn annually, and it’s predicted to grow by 20% a year. So what is behind that growth? How does it all work? And what do you need to do to become a world-class competitive gamer?
In this edition of The Agenda, Juliet Mann speaks to Ralf Reichert, Chief Executive of the Esports World Cup Foundation, Mario Ho, Co-founder and Co-CEO of NIP Group, the first Chinese Esports company to list on the NASDAQ stock exchange, and Jake Trotman, competitive gamer and Assistant Lecturer in Esports business at the University of Salford
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