There is no sport in the world growing more than eSports is. The year-by-year growth has attracted notable names from the traditional sports world such as Shaquille O’Neal, Rick Fox, Alex Rodriguez, and Jimmy Rollins that have all signed on as full or partial owners of eSports teams.
At this point, eSports is more popular than many traditional sports and has sailed by hockey in terms of viewership. If its current growth rate can keep up, it even has a chance to pass baseball in terms of viewers by the end of the decade.
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MULTIPLE GAMES
eSports’ meteoric rise has been fueled largely because it’s hard for it to get stale. Many of the popular games that have betting lines available have only been around for a few years. Games like League of Legends, Hearthstone, and DOTA 2 have only been around for a relatively short time, and have attracted massive fanbases.
In addition to these new games, there are franchises that crank out new games or expansions every two or three years. Series like CounterStrike, which launched the extremely popular CS:GO and StarCraft, that revamps the multi-player for StarCraft 2 every so often, continue to expand and evolve and that keeps them on the forefront of eSports.
THE ESPORTS BOOM
There’s no doubt that one of the catalysts behind the explosion in popularity for eSports is the rise of readily available, extremely fast internet. While there are still problems in some of the major console titles, framerates are now extremely smooth and games aren’t as choppy as they were before. Players across the country can play one another with just a few microseconds of lag and that makes gaming less frustrating than it used to be.
eSports has also done what the traditional sports have found very difficult to do, become popular across continents. Whereas baseball, football, and hockey are extremely regional, there are major eSports communities in North America, Europe, and Asia and that has led to true worldwide viewership. The ability to stream almost all competitive matches for free online has eased the barriers to entry as well and made it much easier for newer fans to catch on.
ESPORTS BETTING
Sportsbooks have an extremely difficult time in lining games because of how different it is from traditional sports. Whereas most athletes spend their entire careers with just a handful of teams, eSports’ players constantly jump from team to team and the balance of power in a game can change seemingly overnight. As new owners with more cash enter the gaming community, they will want to make splashes with their new teams and the prevalence of players switching teams will only grow in the near future.
The sheer number of leagues on three different continents also makes these games difficult to make odds for. Right now, the Asian leagues are the most popular and there is a lot of betting available on this front. Currently, BookMaker has lines for DOTA 2’s Manila Major, League of Legends’ Champions Korea, and the Global Starcraft 2 league. This is just what’s in season right now though; there are many other smaller leagues competing that will have teams competing in future events in these leagues.
For new people trying to break into gambling, eSports is going to be your best bet. If you are able to sift through a plethora of information, there are areas to exploit as sportsbooks haven’t quite figured out how to set odds for eSports yet. Much like lesser-known sports such as Arena football, Canadian football, and the WNBA, the amount of data out there for eSports isn’t much and with rosters turning over frequently as well as games making adjustments to their multi-player every few months, there are definitely profitable opportunities for the savvy bettor.
eSports Odds
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