Esports: to make how money [Sports Technology Gaming]

LOS ANGELES had never seen anything quite like it. The city's Staples Centre usually played host to Lakers and Clippers basketball games - or, in the off-season, rowdy rock gigs. It had certainly never seen a capacity crowd turn up to watch a bunch of geeks play video games. And it wasn't just the 13,000-strong crowd. It was the 32 million people watching online. The event was the League of Legends Finals, and the prize for the most skilled team was the Summoner's Cup - and $1m in cash. Tickets for the event sold out in under an hour, and subsequently popped up on third-party sites like StubHub with prices in the hundreds of dollars.