
E-sports are in an early stage. After all, basketball was invented in 1891, professional basketball leagues were formed in barns in the 1920s, and it has taken a long time for the sport to evolve into what it is today. By comparison, competing in live matches with other players in video games is still in its infancy, said David Ting, the general manager of e-sports at IGN, which operates the IGN Pro League (IPL), in a talk last week at the DICE Summit, the game industry’s elite conference in Las Vegas.
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