Why the next sports empire will be built on eSports

A few weeks after Amazon spent $1B buying the live video game streaming platform Twitch, ESPN president John Skipper was asked for his thoughts on the burgeoning eSports” opportunity. It’s not a sport — it’s a competition,” he responded, Chess is a competition. Checkers is a competition… Mostly, I’m interested in doing real sports.”

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