What is Esports

19 Nov 2025 Updated: 19 Nov 2025
By Bill Robertson
Glossary
Esports, or electronic sports, are competitive video gaming tournaments where professional players or teams face off in popular games. It’s a full-fledged industry with fans, sponsors, and global recognition.

What it includes:
 — Competitive games like CS:GO / CS2, Dota 2, League of Legends, Valorant, Call of Duty, FIFA, PUBG, Fortnite, and more.
— Major tournaments: The International (Dota 2), Worlds (LoL), ESL, BLAST, IEM (CS), and others.

Why it’s more than just gaming:
 Esports has a global audience in the millions, prize pools that reach tens of millions of dollars, and real professional infrastructure — teams, coaches, managers, sponsors, merch, and live streams.

Esports in betting:
 Esports betting is one of the fastest-growing segments of the industry. You can bet on match winners, maps, scores, kill counts, and more. It’s especially popular with the younger digital-savvy audience.

Example:  A user places a bet on NAVI to beat FaZe in a CS2 match at 2.10 odds. If NAVI wins, the bet pays out.

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