This year eSports has burst into mainstream public consciousness and this culminated in Fortnite’s World Cup in July, with an unprecedented audience size and a $30 million (€27m) pot of prize money.

Today eSports can make an individual player just as rich as a real world sports star and the Fortnite World cup peaked at 2 million concurrent views dwarfing all previous eSports totals, and potentially makes companies involved richer still.

This has happened because eSports has broken through in China and South Korea, and there is

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