Increasing trend in E- SPORT

 

 

Esports (also known as electronic sports, e-sports, or eSports) is a form of sport competition using video games.Esports often takes the form of organized, multiplayer video game competitions, particularly between professional players, individually or as teams.

Yes now time has come where gaming is also considered skilfull. Any interested and passionate gamer has plenty of data and proof to show to their parents that gaming is not useless and time wasting and currently in India professional gamers earn a huge amount of money , even more than IIM passout. This is because E-SPORT is getting recognition and also the popularity of E-SPORT has increased.

HISTORY

The earliest known video game competition took place on 19 October 1972 at Stanford University for the game Spacewar. Stanford students were invited to an "Intergalactic spacewar olympics" whose grand prize was a year's subscription for Rolling Stone, with Bruce Baumgart winning the five-man-free-for-all tournament and Tovar and Robert E. Maas winning the team competition.

The fighting game Street Fighter II (1991) popularized the concept of direct, tournament-level competition between two players. Previously, video games most often relied on high scores to determine the best player, but this changed with Street Fighter II, where players would instead challenge each other directly, "face-to-face," to determine the best player, paving the way for the competitive multiplayer and deathmatch modes found in modern action games. The popularity of fighting games such as Street Fighter and Marvel vs. Capcom in the 1990s led to the foundation of the international Evolution Championship Series (EVO) esports tournament in 1996.

In the 1990s, many games benefited from increasing internet connectivity, especially PC games. Tournaments established in the late 1990s include the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL), QuakeCon, and the Professional Gamers League. PC games played at the CPL included the Counter-Strike series, Quake series, and Warcraft.

The popularity and emergence of online streaming services have helped the growth of esports in this period, and are the most common method of watching tournaments. Video game live streaming is an activity where people record themselves playing games to a live audience online. The practice became popular in the mid-2010s on sites such as Twitch and later, YouTube, Facebook and other services. By 2014, Twitch streams had more traffic than HBO's online service.

In 2015, the first Esports Arena was launched in Santa Ana, California, as the United States' first dedicated esports facility.

The most recent iteration of the event, The International 9, is now underway. Teams all over the world are fighting for a slice of an over $33 million prize pool. annual world championship in Dota 2 . This was in 2019 and the total winning prize of wimbledon was $44.9 million.

E- SPORT IN INDIA

If you examine the global data on gaming, you’ll see that the biggest consumer in the gaming industry is China with $34.4 million in revenues. Consequently, Tencent, the largest gaming company on the planet that has a market share of 32.86% and has stakes in majorly popular games such as League of Legends, Fortnite, and Clash Royale is also based in China. Now, it may not come as a surprise knowing how China has evolved into the global powerhouse it is today, but more than that, we are also seeing other Asian countries catching up to this trend; and India, in particular, has been receiving a lot of attention for its dramatic increase in mobile gaming and its significant growth in the local eSports scene.

The past decade has been a pivotal time for competitive gaming as it began capturing the attention of the global market in recent years, but no country has been making remarkable progress as fascinating and as appealing as the Indian gaming scene. From $253.6 million in game revenues in 2014, it gradually picked up speed to an astounding $1.1 billion in 2019 and is predicted by Statista to double its pace by this year with a projection of $2.4 billion. Is that too ambitious? We don’t think so. As a matter of fact, leading company in games and eSports analytics, Newzoo, reported that India has now secured the second spot next to China in the top list of countries with most smartphone users thereby accounting for 345,916,000 users with 25.3% smartphone penetration rate. For India, this means a bigger market brimming with so much untapped potential.

For the past few years, the Indian eSports landscape has been in tremendous growth especially just last year which is its strongest feat so far, when it reached a 180% combined growth across all prize pools for local eSports leagues.

Currently PUBG is the hot favourite in India in E- SPORT and you can trace the reason by looking following table.

1. India	more than 45 crores users
2. The United States	more than 35 crores users
3. China	more than 32 crores users
4. Russia	more than 30 Crores users
5. Germany	more than 22 crores users
6. South Korea	more than 20 crores users
7. The United Kingdom	more than 12 crores users

PMWL(PUBG MOBILE WORLD LEAGUE 2020) East boasts a massive prize pool of $425,000.

Earnings of Indian streamers

If we just talk about tournaments winning than highest price earned by SOUL team in PUBG tournament of $ 60000

But this doesn’t reflect overall earnings of Indian streamers this is just tournament winning. Just take example of Virat Kohli his fixed BCCI package is of 7 crores annually but we all know his total yearly earnings is much more than that.

Naman Mathur, aka Mortal, is one of the most popular PUBG Mobile streamers not only in India but also in the entire world.

Mortal is the In-Game Leader (IGL) of the SouL team that twice represented India in the PMCO Global Finals. Mortal started his YouTube career in September 2016 by uploading Mini Militia gameplay videos, and later on shifted to PUBG Mobile owing to its increasing popularity. Now, he has around 5.57 Million.

 According to Social Blade, Mortal received around 37 Million views on his YouTube channel in the last 30 days. His estimated monthly earnings are about $9.4K - $150.8K, and his estimated yearly earnings are $113.1K - $1.8M.Apart from this, It is not the only source of his income as there are sponsors, super chats, etc. that pay him for promotions, shout outs, and more. SouL Mortal has become the first Indian to be nominated for the Esports Awards.

 You can also checkout income of DYNAMO , SCOUT , SOUL REGALTOS , CARRY MINATI , etc.

FUTURE

By 2021, Newzoo predicts that the annual growth rate of e-sport viewership will be approximately 14%. They also predict that the number of casual viewers will grow to 307 million. And that there will be 250 million eSports enthusiasts, making the total audience 557 million.

In 2018, the average year-on-year increase in total revenue was at an impressive 38.2%. The eSports industry made a total of $906 million in revenue. Out of this, $694 million came from brand investments – both direct and indirect. That’s a 48% increase in brand investment from the previous year. Newzoo predicts that by 2021, eSports will generate more than $1.6 billion in total revenue with $1.3 billion coming from brand investments.

The Olympic Games are also seen as a potential method to legitimize esports. A summit held by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in October 2017 acknowledged the growing popularity of esports, concluding that "Competitive 'esports' could be considered as a sporting activity, and the players involved prepare and train with an intensity which may be comparable to athletes in traditional sports" but would require any games used for the Olympics fitting "with the rules and regulations of the Olympic movement".The sporting world is changing! Esports is becoming so large that even the International Olympic committee (IOC) is beginning to host events.

CONCLUSION

There is no doubt that E-SPORT has a bright future. Especially in India E-SPORT got hype due to the JIO data revolution and PUBG and Indian team has also started  performing better in World leagues. If anybody thinks that e-sport is not a real sport or it is easy, then just try to play one PUBG game and compare your gameplay with professional or watch world leagues. 

Because  playing this type of game required a plan , strategy , team work , reflexes , etc. many teams and players have their analyst and in future you will see that these players will have their coaches , PS , etc. it would be as big as any sport.

We should be happy tha now gaming is also considered as a skill and talent. Because , the pie is growing rather than sliced. So these will create more opportunity for the country and youth.

If you see the story of most popular gaming streamers of India especially  of DYNAMO (Aditya Sawant with highest subscribed gaming channel of India). He started streaming from 2010 and till  2016 he has less than 200 subscribers but he didn’t gave up currently he has more than

 8 million subscribers. His journey was very difficult as he was from a middle class family.  I am attaching a link to a small video where he describes his journey. I insist you watch it. You will find it interesting and inspiring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9WiFoHDNLw

Determination has no limits: Arunima Sinha and Károly Takács

ARUNIMA SINHA: the girl who defeated the mountain.

World's first female amputee to scale Mount Everest, Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Elbrus, Mount Kosciuszko, Mount Aconcagua, Carstensz Pyramid and Mount Vinson.

As a national level volleyball player, Arunima from Ambedkarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, was an unstoppable soul.

In 2011 , she was travelling in a train from Lucknow to Delhi. Some robbers came to her for the gold chain she was wearing but she tried to fight with them and nobody in that compound tried to intervene and the robbers threw her out of the train. Unfortunately another train was coming from the adjacent track and first she banged with that train and then she fell on the track. Both trains passed. After a while she tried to lift herself up and saw that her leg had cut off. She lifted her thigh and saw it was hanging with jeans, blood flowing profusely and bones of other leg were all broken and had come out. All night she kept shouting in pain on the tracks and crying for help. Nobody came to rescue her.all night because of shouting so much she could no longer see. When the train used to pass the track would vibrate and small rats were chewing on her injured leg. Every second she was thinking how I could save myself. The whole night passed, in the morning some villagers took her  to a hospital.

Now the doctor , pharmacist and everyone were discussing that they don’t have anesthesia or blood and how they could start her treatment. Though she couldn’t see but could hear all this. She said, “Sir, my whole leg is crushed , and for so long I was on the tracks and I endured my pain, but for my good you will cut off my leg.” And after that they gave their blood and amputated her leg without any anesthesia.

This all things spread in the media and the sports minister shifted her to AIIMS Delhi. When she got well after 25 days she came out and read all the twisted stories in the newspaper, “Arunima Sinha didn’t have a train ticket , and jumped from the train.” And “ She was rejected by her family” and even , “Arunima Sinha attempted sucide.at that point she decided its ok today is your day say how much you want to but a day will come when I will prove myself.this when she decided to do mountaineering.

She contacted Bachendri Pal in 2011 by telephone and signed up for training under her at the Uttarkashi camp of the Tata Steel Adventure Foundation (TSAF) 2012. Sinha climbed Island Peak (6150 metres) in 2012 as preparation for her ascent of Everest. Nothing could falter her from her dream. On her first deed while in transit to the summit, she was so cheerful to have achieved the base camp that she lost balance and tumbled to the ground, injuring herself in the process.

On the day she endeavoured to summit Mount Everest, she and her Sherpa were the first to leave the camp. When they were very close to the summit, her Sherpa gave her some terrible news. Their oxygen levels were quickly exhausting, and they needed to return the following day for another attempt. Sinha was adamant on completing the summit that very day. With the help of the Sherpa, after two hours, they were at the pinnacle of Mount Everest, and of her success at 10:55 am on 21 May 2013. Those 7 minutes atop the summit were the best moments of her life. She just wanted to shout out to the world that she had done it.

Arunima Sinha has been included as one of the ‘People of the Year’ by Limca Book of Records in 2016. She is now dedicated towards social welfare and she wants to open a free sports academy for the poor and differently-abled persons. She is donating all the financial aids she is getting through awards and seminars for the same cause. In her website arunimasinha.com, she is noted as saying, “I have achieved my goal but now I want to help physically challenged people to achieve their goal so that they can also become self-dependent and nobody looks at them with pity.”

Károly Takács-the man who gave his best shot

Károly Takács  was the first shooter to win two Olympics gold medals in the 25 meter rapid fire pistol event, both with his left hand after his right hand was seriously injured. 

 

This story is from 1938 of a person named Karoly in Hungarian army. He was the best pistol shooter of the country. By 1936, he was a world-class pistol shooter, but he was denied a place in the Hungarian shooting team for the 1936 Summer Olympics on the grounds that he was a sergeant, and only commissioned officers were allowed to compete. This prohibition was lifted in Hungary after the Berlin Games.  He has won all the national championships in the country. All was sure that he would get gold in the Olympic which was scheduled in 1940. He was practicing for many years . He has only one goal he wants to make his hand as the best shooting hand of the world and he almost achieved it, just two year are remaining. During army training in 1938, his right hand was badly injured when a faulty grenade exploded and that hand was gone.

 

All his dreams and focus was destroyed by this incident. Now he had two options :

1) Give up and cry for his  whole life and hide somewhere.

2) Or what he has thought , what was his goal should stick to that and achieve it.

 

He focused on what he has , not on what he didn’t. He had a left hand. A hand from which he can’t even write. For 1 month he went through treatment of his injured hand. After 1 month he started training with his left hand. After 1 year of training that is in 1939 he came back, National championship was going on in Hungary and many pistol shooters were there. They all went to Karoly To congratulate him they said that this is called sportsman’s spirit , after going through everything you are here to support us by cheering us. No one was aware that he was training for 1 year with his left hand and he answered “I AM NOT HERE TO SUPPORT YOU; I AM HERE TO COMPETE WITH YOU BE READY.” Competition started, everyone was competing with their best hand but Károly was competing with his only hand. Who won? The man with the only hand, he won. He didn’t stop here, his goal was clear: he wanted to make his hand world’s best pistol shooting hand. He focused on the 1940's Olympics but unfortunately the 1940's Olympic canceled due to world war. Then he shifted his focus on 1944’s Olympics but that also got canceled due to world war.

 

He again started focusing on the 1948 Olympics. In 1938 he was 28 year old and now he was 38 year old in 1948. Now he has to compete with younger players. He went there,  the world's best shooters were competing with their best hand but Károly was competing with his only hand. Who won? The man with the only hand, he won. He didn’t stop here he again went to 1952 Olympics and again won the

  Gold  medal and made history.

 

LEARNING

 These two stories always motivates me , this both gives an great example of focus , determination and never give up attitude.

If you go to any loser he will have a list of excuses I failed due to this and that. But if you go to the winner he will have a thousand reasons that he can’t do but he will find one reason to do that thing and will achieve it.

 

So NEVER GIVE UP and NEVER LOSE HOPE.

 

Do share your opinion in comments.

Fair & Lovely: Colourism in India

Mirror, mirror on the wall - who is the fairest of them all? The one with the palest skin, of course. Or that's the idea behind India's multibillion-dollar skin lightening industry, with a host of 'fairness' products appearing to offer dark-skinned Indians a lighter, fairer, better version of themselves.

First of all let’s see the chronological order.

Article-14 Of Constitution Of India

The state not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal protection of the laws within the territory of India. Protection prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion, race, Caste, sex, or place of birth

And thus, Article 14 is introduced into the Constitution of India, 1950.

Fair & Lovely is a skin-lightening cosmetic product of Hindustan Unilever introduced to the market in India in 1975.

This how fair & lovely advertise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGepwMtV7R8

above add tiltle is 'fair & lovely FUTURE TUBE'. In short says that if you are not white than you can' be successful.

 The market size of the industry is pegged at around 50 billion rupees (US$661 million), and this segment dominates the country’s skincare market.

Fair & Lovely, manufactured by Hindustan Unilever, enjoys a market share of 40%. Launched in 1975, it became an instant success as lighter skin in India is often considered synonymous with beauty, and the matrimonial ads section in various newspapers are replete with entries seeking “fair-skinned” brides. This is despite the fact that an overwhelming majority of people in the country have a brown or dark skin tone.

Interestingly, this obsession with fair skin was not confined to women. In 2005, Emami launched Fair And Handsome as market studies had revealed that a sizeable percentage of users of women’s fairness creams were men. A host of other brands also entered this newly formed segment.

 

There are many matrimonial sites in India which differentiate the skin colour into fair, dusky and dark. For instance, Shaadi.com, a leading Indian matrimonial website, cites fair skin as the key factor(Currently they removed this type of filters ). The desire for whiter skin goes beyond the middle classes, but those who cannot afford branded, expensive products use a host of traditional remedies such as lemon juice, rose water, honey, egg yolk, cream or cumin. During the time of marriage, boy's parents prefer the girl who has white-toned skin; else the girl is rejected most of the time. Rejections sometimes create a lot of stress and depression for the girl's family especially the girl.

Additionally, there are lots of advertisements prevailing in the country since many years, which give preference to the fair skin only. Many Indian film stars have appeared in advertisements for whitening creams including Katrina Kaif, Deepika Padukone, Sonam Kapoor , Preity Zinta, Yami Gautam, etc. For years, skin-lightening creams and other products have shown people mostly women with dark skin as having problems when it comes to finding jobs, getting married and generally being accepted by society. The makers of these ads include behemoths like Hindustan Unilever, Johnson & Johnson and P&G.

George Floyd : Black life matters and fairness creams

Throughout the years she was growing up in southern India, Christy Jennifer, a producer with a media house in the city of Chennai, was traumatized by episodes of prejudice. As she walked through school corridors, classmates pointed at her darker skin and teased her, she said. Even friends and family members told her never to wear black. She said she was constantly advised on which skin lightening cream to use as if the remedy to this deep-seated social bias lay in a plastic bottle.

“Every day, my dignity and self-esteem were reduced to the colour of my skin,” she said. “I felt a worthless piece of flesh.”
Colourism, the bias against people of darker skin tones, has vexed India for a long time. It is partly a product of colonial prejudices, and it has been exacerbated by caste, regional differences and Bollywood, the nation’s film industry, which has long promoted lighter-skinned heroes.

 

 But America’s intense discussion of race, in the wake of George Floyd’s death, seems to be having some effect. After the death of George Floyd riots started in USA and it impacted whole world. Now all companies involved in lightning cream product realize they are doing wrong.

 

This all started when Johnson & Johnson exit from fairness cream market. J&J said it will stop selling the Clean & Clear Fairness line of products, sold in India as well. Earlier this month. the company stopped its Neutrogena Fine Fairness line, sold in Asia and in the Middle East.

Though it has stopped selling the Neutrogena fairness creams, Clean & Clear Fairness products will be sold until the existing stock is exhuasted. In India, it is now available on ecommerce platforms and retail stores.

“Conversations over the past few weeks highlighted that some product names or claims on our dark spot reducer products represent fairness or white as better than your own unique skin tone,” J&J had said. “This was never our intention - healthy skin is beautiful skin,” the company said.Shadi.com removed their skin tone filter which makes you fair when you uplod the photo.

 Then came HUL who removed the word FAIR from FAIR & LOVELY and instead of that they added glow.

 Nina Davuluri -As Miss America 2014, she was the "first contestant of Indian descent to win the Miss America Competition". She spoke from her personal experience – after being crowded Miss America , articles were published that asked “if Miss America was too dark to ever be Miss India.”

After black lives matter incident she send an open letter to HUL to stop selling fairness cream and many petition were signed and due to which HUL got lots of pressure and removed the name Fair.

My opinion

If we see history we are all are originally from Africa. Africa was not connected to the world at that time and was a tropical region (hot region). Then started discovery of island and continents. Vasco da gama discovered India and Christopher Columbus found America and European exploration of Sub-Saharan Africa begins with the Age of Discovery in the 15th century, pioneered by Portugal under Henry the Navigator.

When he found Africa than colonization started. European spread propaganda ‘Whitman’s burden’and this was not an propaganda it should be called SLAVE TRADE. They said  “We are white and according to colour we are superior and it is our burden and duty to take black people towards goodness and truth”

 This was in 15^th century. Currently we are in 21^st century and due to one incident after so many years suddenly everybody started realizing  this.

 Let’s talk about India. Fair & Lovely started in 1975 and after 45 years they realized that we are doing wrong let changed name. They did this to avoid court case and being sued and they have just change the name from fair to glow which ultimately refers towards fairness indirectly and does the same thing.

 HUL is not the only to be blamed we India are equally culprits towards this. HUL was abel to do this because we used it we don’t accept what we are. They stayed in the market because we purchased it in order to be fair.

 I feel that our generation has energy and are also fearless but for temporary basis and on social media only. Just see almost every one of us has commented on the person on the basis of colour and many will continue to do so.  We stood against rape and sexually abuse when Nirbhaya case and boys looker room came into limelight. But ask yourself how long we hold on that? I am not telling that everyone do so but there are only few who stand against this.

 Guys truly speaking if we want to change this society than only one person can do that is ‘YOU’ if each and everyone speakout when something wrong is happening than only society will change . stop thinking ‘ Mere akele se kya hoga?’ just remember that akela(one) ultimately becomes 130 crore. So stand against the  wrong thing and be fearless.

Guys do comments your opinion.