Challenges Of Major League Gaming

Register to read the introduction… “Major League Gaming is the largest professional video game league in the world. MLG is the dominant media property exclusively targeting the approximately 40 million consumers in North America who have a passion for playing video games as a competitive social activity, while giving sponsori ng brands access to this highly influential demographic.” (MLG, 2011) While MLG attracts many shooter gamers, other events attract the Fighters such as Evo. “TheEvolution championship series (Evo for short) represent the largest and longest-running fighting game tournaments in the world.” (Evo, 2011) Evo attracts the best among the fighters to their stage to compete for great cash prizes and fame.
When you got to a LAN tournament you can bet that they will have everything there that is needed to play the game, whether it’s PC or Console. For the PC side, the organizer usually talks with some kind of Computer Company and gets them to sponsor the event, so when you are playing on a PC you can bet that the PC will run the game that you went to …show more content…
One of the most iconic pro gamers and gaming legends is Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendell. Other names gamers recognize are the Ogre Twins, Walshy, TSquared, Justin Wong, Daigo, and Master just to name a few. Once you start getting known in the gaming world as a Great player of your desired genre, your name gets around pretty quickly. Once you start winning tournaments Sponsors like Red Bull, Monster, and other companies that making Gaming gear and equipment will start to notice you. They will give you free stuff and even pay for you to go to the tournaments as long as you wear their logo or use their equipment. In anyone who doesn’t really know about pro gaming, it just seems unbelievable that a company would give you all this free stuff just for playing Video