Have you heard of eSports platform Twitch? Of course you have.

It has over 100 million users and was bought by Amazon in August 2014.

Analysts are now predicting the eSports sector will be a a one billion dollar sector by 2020.

The phenomenon is coming to primetime TV in the US with TBS planning live broadcasts of weekly competitions.

eSports is becoming more popular than offline sports in the US.

League of Legends – one of the largest eSports championships – drew more viewers (27 million) than the NBA finals (18 million) or game seven of the world series (23.5million). Only the Superbowl gets more viewers (112 million).

What is eSports? People watching other people play video games. You knew that, right?

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