Could eSports outperform football, baseball and basketball?

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4.6 • 825 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2017

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Could video game competitions become more popular than the Super Bowl? eSports, as they're called, have such a huge following that TV networks have started to bid on the right to broadcast them. In this Komando on Demand podcast, we’re going to meet a competitive gamer and a woman who made a name for herself hosting the most popular competitions in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Now he scrambles away from one hit.
0:03.2	Look, I'm clutch, a deep one for the end zone.
0:05.7	Phelan is down there.
0:06.8	Oh, he got it!
0:07.7	He got it!
0:08.2	He got it!
0:08.6	He's got it!
0:10.8	No!
0:12.2	Not possible!
0:14.9	Not possible!
0:19.0	We're going to talk about sports.
0:21.1	You see, history is full of sports leagues that tried and failed to become the next big thing.
0:26.8	Does anyone remember the XFL?
0:29.3	Or what about slam ball?
0:31.2	The basketball league that was actually played on trampoling.
0:35.3	Way up my, boom, sh! It was a bubble cat was a
0:39.3	buffalo cat.
0:40.3	Yes, that really happened.
0:42.3	But obviously, it never quite caught on.
0:44.3	It's not easy to break through to the mainstream.
0:46.3	But nevertheless, the search continues for a new kind of competitive entertainment
0:50.3	that millions of people will actually rearrange their lives to watch and to
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