eSports in India
Ever confused about what the competitive video game phenomena was all about? Well, this article will bring you up to speed…
Esports or Electronic Sports is competitive video gaming. A genuine sporting activity at its heart, esports has come a long way in redefining video games and modern entertainment. Taking inspiration from traditional sports, esports is quickly becoming an alternative career option for the youth. Today, leading esports organisations provide premium facilities to its players, while tournaments take place in huge arenas and reward top contestants with multi-million prize pools. Similarly, this esports attracts viewership base of over 200 million and this number is expanding at a steady two-digit growth rate.
The Indian esports scene is not very far behind. The competitive gaming scene in the country has been witnessing a revival after initial years of gloom. In fact, the growth spurt has been due to two intrinsic factors. Firstly, India is home to the world’s largest youth population, over 50% of the country’s population is below the age of 25 years. Additionally, according to a report by IAMAI-IMRB, India is also the second largest user of the internet globally. These two factors have gone a long way in paving a strong foundation for competitive gaming within the country. Today, India is home to dozens of professional organisations, apart from thousands of amateur teams and players. Several Indian esport organisations have also introduced contract systems to ease out the risk factor involved in esports, thereby making competitive gaming a viable career option for the youth.
As far as tournaments and investments go, it has been on the rise in the country. The 2016 season saw over INR 75 Lacs ($112,800) being disbursed as prize money. What’s more, the 2017 season witness a proposed investment of close to INR 290 crores ($45 million). The ongoing competitive season also witnessed the arrival of the first-ever $100,000 tournament in the country in the form of the ESL India Premiership 2017.
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| Team Brutality playing CS:GO game in ESL India |
Also there was an India Gaming Show | Pragati Maidan , Delhi.
If we talk about Streaming , people stream their gaming matches and viewers enjoy it.So both streamers and viewers catch each other at twitch.tv. This is most favorite place or you can tell most favorite channel to watch the eSports games by gamers.
If we talk about India's streamers, India's first Official twitch stream is AlienH Gaming which streams the official matches of CS:GO Major or Minor Tournaments as well as the ESL India Tournaments.
If we talk about India's streamers, India's first Official twitch stream is AlienH Gaming which streams the official matches of CS:GO Major or Minor Tournaments as well as the ESL India Tournaments.
With competitive gaming arriving on Indian television sets, the event marks a watershed moment for Indian esports.
Wednesday, 19 July 2017 was written down in history books as the day esports made its first and official appearance on Indian television. DSPORT has recently partnered with NODWIN Gaming and together they will broadcast the progress of the ESL India Premiership 2017 across television sets in India. For a start, the channel was showing the matches of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on a daily basis. Every day, 90 minutes of premium CS:GO action, sourced from the ESL India Premiership 2017 – Master League will be telecasted. This trend will continue until the month of December. The channel will also cover the offline LAN Season finales when they occur in the cities of Hyderabad and Delhi. This will help make eSports events more accessible to the fans spread across the country! There are also talks to include other competitive games as well. DSPORT is a premium sports channel and focuses on youth centric content. The channel is a part of the Discovery Communications umbrella. As part of bolstering its youth agenda, the channel will broadcast eSports apart from football, motorsport, pro-wrestling and much more. With the eSports scene on the rise in the country, the decision to showcase competitive gaming matches on Indian television is a move that will be welcomed by every Indian esports enthusiast.
Speaking on the advent of eSports on the Indian television, Karan Bajaj, Senior Vice-President and General Manager, Discovery Communications India, said “We are excited to showcase eSports for the first time on television in India. The 90 minutes of intense gaming broadcast daily on DSPORT, for over six months, will catapult the popularity of eSports further in the country.”
Meanwhile, Akshat “LordNOD” Rathee, Managing Director, NODWIN Gaming, stated, “eSports is one of the fastest growing sports in the country and this broadcast of the ESL India Premiership on DSPORT is sure to elevate their popularity to a new level. eSports has been already announced as a medal event for the 2022 Asian Games and will also hopefully make it to the 2024 Olympics, so we hope this initiative will act as a first step towards bringing glory to the country on global multi-sports platforms.”
The ESL India Premiership 2017 segment will be aired on DSPORT every day from 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM (all timings in IST). To check the availability of the channel on your DTH & MSO services, please refer to the following table.
You can also catch the action on your smartphones. Simply access the DSPORT channel through live TV apps such as Jio TV, Vodafone Play and much more!
Wednesday, 19 July 2017 was written down in history books as the day esports made its first and official appearance on Indian television. DSPORT has recently partnered with NODWIN Gaming and together they will broadcast the progress of the ESL India Premiership 2017 across television sets in India. For a start, the channel was showing the matches of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on a daily basis. Every day, 90 minutes of premium CS:GO action, sourced from the ESL India Premiership 2017 – Master League will be telecasted. This trend will continue until the month of December. The channel will also cover the offline LAN Season finales when they occur in the cities of Hyderabad and Delhi. This will help make eSports events more accessible to the fans spread across the country! There are also talks to include other competitive games as well. DSPORT is a premium sports channel and focuses on youth centric content. The channel is a part of the Discovery Communications umbrella. As part of bolstering its youth agenda, the channel will broadcast eSports apart from football, motorsport, pro-wrestling and much more. With the eSports scene on the rise in the country, the decision to showcase competitive gaming matches on Indian television is a move that will be welcomed by every Indian esports enthusiast.
Speaking on the advent of eSports on the Indian television, Karan Bajaj, Senior Vice-President and General Manager, Discovery Communications India, said “We are excited to showcase eSports for the first time on television in India. The 90 minutes of intense gaming broadcast daily on DSPORT, for over six months, will catapult the popularity of eSports further in the country.”
Meanwhile, Akshat “LordNOD” Rathee, Managing Director, NODWIN Gaming, stated, “eSports is one of the fastest growing sports in the country and this broadcast of the ESL India Premiership on DSPORT is sure to elevate their popularity to a new level. eSports has been already announced as a medal event for the 2022 Asian Games and will also hopefully make it to the 2024 Olympics, so we hope this initiative will act as a first step towards bringing glory to the country on global multi-sports platforms.”
The ESL India Premiership 2017 segment will be aired on DSPORT every day from 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM (all timings in IST). To check the availability of the channel on your DTH & MSO services, please refer to the following table.
| TataSky | Dish TV | Videocon D2H | Siti Digital | Digi Cable | Hathway | Fastway | GTPL |
| Ch. No
495
| Ch. No
630
| Ch. No
410
| Ch. No
483
| Ch. No
406
| Ch. No
183
| Ch. No
314
| Ch. No
114
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The following above table and the timings is been covered by nodwingaming.com
By looking all these i think eSports will be at the greatest level in the upcoming years. People will eagerly wait for the tournaments to take place in India in Stadiums just like it does in every other Countries like USA or any other and people cheer for the players of eSports Team who are participated in the tournament.well this year ESL India Premiership is coming up in April with a magnanimous INR 1 crore ($157,000*) prize pool. Well i see there is a very creative view in the eSports community in terms of Media.
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